George Gore Ousley Higgins

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George Gore Ousley Higgins
Member of Parliament
for Mayo
In office
29 July 1850 – 10 April 1857
Serving with George Henry Moore
Preceded byGeorge Henry Moore
Robert Dillon Browne
Succeeded byGeorge Henry Moore
Roger Palmer
Personal details
Born15 October 1818
Died8 May 1874(1874-05-08) (aged 55)
NationalityIrish
Political partyWhig
Other political
affiliations		Independent Irish

George Gore Ousley Higgins (15 October 1818 – 8 May 1874)[1][2] was an Irish Whig and Independent Irish Party politician.[3][4][5][6]

The second son of Fitzgerald Higgins and Mary née Ouseley, Higgins first entered work as a civil servant for the Colony of Jamaica, and was also a Justice of the Peace for County Mayo.[2]

Higgins was elected Whig MP for Mayo at a —caused by the death of Robert Dillon Browne—and, becoming an Independent Irish MP in 1852, held the seat until 1857 when he stood again as Whig but was defeated.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Rayment, Leigh (23 June 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "M"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard (1847). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I — A to L. London: Henry Colburn. p. 571. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 302–303. ISBN 978-0901714121.
  4. ^ "Notice". Tipperary Free Press. 10 July 1850. p. 3. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Dublin Weekly Nation". 20 July 1850. p. 8. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "The Mayo Election". Galway Vindicator, and Connaught Advertiser. 31 July 1850. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Mayo
–1857
With: George Henry Moore 		Succeeded by


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