Higgs, Holland Thomas, Reading, Berks., upholder and cm (1745–83). Married Mary Harvard of Nuffield on 29 July 1745, and as a widower, Anne Benwell on 17 April 1763. Took app. named Line in 1750 and Higgs in 1761. Insured his house for £2,000 in 1776 with the Sun Co. Named in 1793 as 3rd party in a lease of property in Goring. [Poll bks; Bodleian index of Oxf. marriage bonds; S of G, app. index; GL, Sun MS vol. 248, p. 450; Oxford RO, FIX/138–39] See Higgs jnr, —, Thomas Higgs, Higgs & Ford, and Thomas Holland.