Lionel George Higgins (26 May 1891 – 9 October 1985) was a British surgeon and a hobby lepidopterist who produced a major fieldguide to the butterflies of Britain and Europe.
He entered Clare College, Cambridge and received a medical degree in 1917 at St Thomas' Hospital.
[1] Higgins took an interest in natural history at an early age but from 1922 he worked on the taxonomy and systematics of the butterflies.
He published his major work - A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe (1970) - in collaboration with Norman D. Riley.
He was also an avid collector of butterflies, colling as far afield as in Kashmir, the Pamirs and the Urals.