Higgins

Higgins may refer to:

People

Higgins (surname), including list of people with the surname (see also Ó hUiginn)

Places

Higgins, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen

Higgins, Texas, city in Lipscomb County, Texas

Higgins Township, Michigan, USA

Higgins Beach, small beach in Maine

Higgins Lake, in Michigan

Division of Higgins, Australian Electoral Division in Victoria

Other

Higgins (dog), trained dog actor in Benji and Petticoat Junction

Higgins boat, or LCVP, a landing craft used in amphibious warfare

Higgins Industries, a US firm that manufactured the Higgins boat

Higgins project, an open source framework for user-centric identity management

Higgins Armory Museum, in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

The Higgins Boys and Gruber, cable television show

Higgins Glass, art glass

Higgins Building, building in Los Angeles, California, USA

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Higgins (surname)

Higgins is a surname found in England and in Ireland with several origins.

Origins in England

From the name Hugh

From the name Hig (both the son of Hugh and a diminutive of Hugh)

From Hicke a diminutive of Richard

all then stemmed with the patronymic termination ings; meaning belonging to, or the son of.

Origin in Ireland, the name is an anglicised version of the Gaelic family Ó hUiginn, who were high status poets between the 14th and 17th centuries. Descendants of this family include Bernardo O'Higgins, the first Head of State of Chile, and Kevin O'Higgins who was Minister for Justice in the first Irish Free State government.

In politics

Brian Higgins, U.S. Representative (D-NY)

Frank W. Higgins, Governor of New York

H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin; ex-TD

John Patrick Higgins, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland

Pete Higgins (born 1957), member of the Alaska House of Representatives

Division of Higgins

The Division of Higgins is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria.

The division was created in 1949 and is named after Justice H. B. Higgins (1851–1929), who was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1894), president of the Carlton Football Club (1904), a founding Member of Australian House of Representatives (1901–1906) and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1906–1929).

It is located in Liberal Party heartland of inner eastern Melbourne, including the ultra-affluent suburbs of Armadale, Kooyong, Malvern and Toorak, as well as middle-class Ashburton, Carnegie, Glen Iris, Prahran and South Yarra.

Historically the seat has been prominent in Australian federal politics, especially for the Liberal Party. The seat's first two members, Harold Holt and Sir John Gorton, were Prime Ministers of Australia in 1966–67 and 1968–71 respectively. Higgins is the only Division to have been held by two Prime Ministers. This occurred when Holt went missing while Prime Minister, and then-Senator Gorton was elected as his replacement.