Sir James Macaulay Higginson (1805 – 28 June 1885) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator who was Governor of Antigua from 1847 to 1850.
[3] He was secretary to Sir Charles Metcalfe, administrator in British India, and accompanied him when Metcalfe was posted to Jamaica and then Canada.
[7][4] Secondly, he married Olivia Nichola Dobbs at Leamington Spa, on 11 November 1854.
[8][9] A daughter of his second marriage, Sydney Harriet Maude Higginson, married Sir John Charles Kennedy, 3rd Baronet, in 1879.
[10] He died on 28 June 1885 in Tulfarris, County Wicklow, aged 79.