Sir Thomas Higgons (c 1624 – 24 November 1691) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1687.
[1] He matriculated at St Alban Hall, Oxford on 27 April 1638, aged 14 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1639.
[2] He travelled abroad in Italy from about 1643 to 1646 and learned the language well enough to translate an account of Venetian triumphs over the Ottoman Empire.
[1] Higgons died of apoplexy in the Court of King's Bench at the age of about 66 and was buried in Winchester Cathedral.
He married secondly by licence dated 11 November 1661, Bridget Leach, widow of Simon Leach of Cadleigh, Devon, and daughter of the royalist leader Sir Bevil Grenville of Stow, Cornwall, and had three sons (George, Thomas and Bevil) and three daughters.