Educated at the Webb Street Medical School and at St George's and St Thomas's Hospitals; first practised at Staines, Middlesex, then at 11 Westbourne Crescent as physician to the Royal Free Hospital; next at Winchester, where he was Physician to the County Infirmary. He died at St Leonards on April

Born on board the flagship of Admiral Hayes, off the island of Java, the eldest son of Colonel Charles Thomas Higgins of the HEIC, then on shore at the time, leading his regiment in the storming of Batavia when it was taken from the French. Hence his second name Hayes. After a succession of schools