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HIGHFLYER 



T. Wentworth 



Higginson, 

 American author 



Higginson ,THOMASWENTWOETH 

 ( 1 823- 1911). American soldier and 

 author. Born at Cam bridge, Mass., 

 Dec. 22, 1823, 

 and educated 

 at Harvard, he 

 was ordained 

 in 1847, and 

 became Uni- 

 tarian pastor at 

 Newburyport 

 and Worcester, 

 1850-58. Dur- 

 ing the civil 

 war he was 

 colonel of 

 the 1st S.C. Volunteers, the first 

 regiment of freed slaves, and was 

 wounded at Wiltown Bluff, 1863. 

 He took an active interest in anti- 

 slavery, educational, and women's 

 suffrage movements. A man of 

 striking personality, he wrote with 

 charm and distinction, being the 

 author of Lives of Margaret Fuller, 

 Marchioness Ossoli, 1884 ; Long- 

 fellow, 1903 ; and Whittier, 1903 ; 

 two histories of the U.S.A., one for 

 the young, 1875, and 1885 ; Army 

 Life in a Black Regiment, 1870 ; 

 Tales of the Enchanted Islands of 

 the Atlantic, 1898 ; Old Cambridge, 

 1899; Contemporaries, 1899; Part 

 of a Man's Life, 1905. See Life, 

 M. P. Higginson, 1914 ; Works, 7 

 vols., 1900. 



Higgs, WILLIAM GUY (b. 1862). 

 Australian politician. Born in New 

 South Wales, Jan. 18, 1862, after 

 learning printing he became a 

 journalist. Entering politics, he 

 obtained a seat in the Brisbane 

 municipal council, 1899-1900. Hav- 

 ing sat for the same period in the 

 Queensland parliament, in 1901 he 

 was elected to the first Common- 

 wealth parliament ; later he repre- 

 sentedQueensland in the senate and 

 was chairman of committee to that 

 body 1904-6. He was treasurer of 

 the Commonwealth, 1915-16. 



Higham Ferrers. Mun. bor- 

 ough and market town of North- 

 amptonshire. It stands on the 

 Nene, 5 m. from Wellingborough, 

 and 63 from London, and has a 

 station on the Mid. Ely. The mak- 

 ing of boots and shoes is the chief 

 industry. The church of S. Mary 

 is a fine old building, mainly of the 

 Decorated period. The buildings 

 erected by Archbishop Chichele 

 about 1420 include the school house 

 in the Perpendicular style, and the 

 Bede House. The archbishop 

 founded a college here. Higham was 

 on the lands of the Ferrers family 

 in the Middle Ages. It had a castle, 

 and became a corporate town in the 

 13th century. It still retains its 

 mayor and corporation. Pop. 2,700. 

 Highbury. District of N. Lon- 

 don. It is in the bor. of Islington, 

 with a station on the N.L.R. Near 



the station are Highbury Fields, Viscount Milner was High Com- 

 27| acres, acquired for the public missioner in S. Africa, 1897-1905 ; 

 in 1886 and 1891. Here stood the the king's representative in Egypt 

 manor house, once the property has the same title. 



Eng- 



of the priors of S. John ; it was 

 destroyed in the Wat Tyler rising of 

 1381. On the site of the barn or 

 dairy of the manor house was built 

 a cake and ale-house, which, after 

 becoming a tavern with tea gar- 

 dens, and a hotel with music-hall 

 and dancing saloon, disappeared in 

 1871. In Aubert Park is the Lon- 

 don College of Divinity. 



Near the college is the ground of 

 Woolwich Arsenal F.C., to the E. 

 of which is Highbury Vale. The 

 Nonconformist club known as the 



High Court of Justice, 

 lish court of law, a branch of the 

 supreme court of judicature, as 

 established in 1873. It is divided 

 into three divisions : chancery, 

 king's \ ench, and probate, divorce 

 and admiralty ; in addition one of 

 its judges is detailed to preside over 

 a court of bankruptcy and another 

 to deal with the winding-up of 

 companies, both as part of the 

 king's bench division. 



By the Judicature Act of 1873 

 every division of the high court 



Highbury Society held its meetings has power to try anything that any 

 at Highbury Barn, 1740-1833. other division may : thus, a chari- 

 Abraham Newland, chief cashier 

 of the Bank of England, lived at 

 No. 38, and Joseph Chamberlain, 

 when a boy, at No. 25, Highbury 



Place. The manor, mentioned in 



Highbury Barn as it appeared in 1792 



By courtesy of Outsell & Co. 



Domesday, belonged in turn to 

 Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Queen 

 Mary, Henry, son of James I, and 

 Charles I, who in 1629 sold it to Sir 

 Allan Apsley. 



High Commission, COURT OF. 

 English ecclesiastical court. It was 

 set up in 1559 to enforce greater 

 uniformity in the services of the 

 Church of England. Whitgift, arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, persuaded 

 Elizabeth to delegate her powers 

 of jurisdiction over the church to 

 a commission of 44 persons of 

 whom 12 were bishops. This was 

 done on the strength of an act of 

 1558 by which the ancient juris- 

 diction of the state, ecclesiastical 

 and spiritual, was restored to the 

 crown. The method of action was to 

 request a suspected person to take 

 an oath denying some particular 

 proposition. The court was abol- 

 ished by an act of July 5, 1641. 



High Commissioner. Title 

 given to certain representatives of 

 their countries in positions of 

 importance. Canada, Australia, 

 South Africa, Newfoundland, New 

 Zealand, and India are represented 

 in London by High Commissioners 



eery judge may try a divorce or 

 probate suit or an action for libel. 

 In fact, actions of a mixed common 

 law and equity character are tried 

 daily. But in order to secure the 

 service of expert 

 | judges certain 

 " . matters are ordered 

 ^ * to be started in 



^^" specific divisions. 



,/j| Thus common 



JLs@L law actions for 



damages, for the 

 recovery of debts, 

 etc., should be. 

 commenced in the 

 king's bench, ac- 

 tions for adminis- 

 tration of trusts, 

 specific perform- 

 ance of contracts, 

 and for injunctions 

 to restrain injuries 

 to rights of property, e.g. copyright, 

 rights of light, etc., should be 

 brought in the chancery division ; 

 while in the probate, divorce and 

 admiralty division should be com- 

 menced the suits which the title of 

 the division indicates. Each divi- 

 sion of the court has its quota of 

 judges, all appointed by the crown 

 on the advice of the lord chancellor, 

 all knighted on appointment, and 

 entitled to a salary of 5,000 a year 

 and a pension on retirement. 



The lord chancellor is the pre- 

 sident of the chancery division ; the 

 lord chief justice of the king's bench 

 division, while the probate, divorce 

 and admiralty division has a 

 president. The sittings of the high 

 court, except those of the judges of 

 the king's bench division when on 

 circuit, are held at the royal courts 

 of justice, Strand, W.C. See Chan- 

 cery ; Judge; King's Bench. 



Higher Criticism. Term ap- 

 plied to the scientific criticism of 

 the books of the Bible. See Criti- 

 cism ; Biblical. 



Highflyer. British second-class 

 cruiser, nameship of a class of three. 

 Her length is 350 ft., beam 54 ft. ; 



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