| Description | [Henry Higginson (son of Alexander and Martha Higginson) was born 1 March 1790 in London. From 1825 until his death on 5 Feb. 1848 he was Minister of the East India Company's Chapel at Poplar.]
List of queries (from C.Mason) concerning various details of Revd. Henry Higginson's life and career, with replies from his son H.J.Higginson. Includes copies of Henry Higginsons's baptismal entry from St. Marleybone parish register, and licence appointing him chaplain to Poplar Hospital; also details re the appearance and lighting of Poplar Chapel, Higginsons's coat of arms and Masonic connections, transcripts of Higginson family monumental inscriptions,etc.
Letter from Col. George W.Higginson (nephew of Revd. Henry Higginson) of The Hut, Easthampstead Park, Wokingham, to C.Mason, suggesting that the late Revd. H.Higginson's son, Henry John Higginson of Northleach, Glos. would be he best source of information about his late father.
Letters from H. J. Higginston of Northleach, Glos (after July 1869 of Grofield House, Abergavenny) to C. Mason, with various answers to queries concerning his late father and Poplar Chapel.
Letter from Thomas Fenn of 14 Bedford Square, W.C., to Mason re the late Revd. Higginson's Masonic connections.
Letter from S. W. Reynolds of Brasenose College, Oxford, to J. J. Courteney, plus related notes by Mason, re H. Higginson's matriculation, B. A. and M. A. degrees at Oxford University.
Seal of St. Bartholomew's Hospital found with these papers. |