George Gore Ousley Higgins (original) (raw)

George Gore Ousley Higgins (15 October 1818 – 8 May 1874) was an Irish Whig and Independent Irish Party politician. 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. 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.