Educated at St George’s Hospital, the Windmill Street School of Medicine, at Edinburgh, and in Paris. Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, 1827-1828. He was a JP for the County of Middlesex and the City of Westminster, and lived for a time at Wilton Lodge, Hillingdon Heath, near

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