Higgs successfully undertook for three years (1926 to 1929) a Lectureship in Economics at Bangor. After retirement from the Civil Service Mr. The society and its Journal gained in steadiness and strength. It was a happy match to link his cool prudence and fair but clear decisive judgment of men and thins with the charming Irish insouciance of his co-editor, Edgeworth. For 14 years from 1892 to 1906 he was secretary of the Economic Society and Joint Editor of the Journal. With his official duties, until they became imperatively absorbing, he was able to combine active promotion of economic study. Higg's tact and discretion were engaged in the delicate adjustment of ecclesiastical patronage. A prevalent rumour among his friends declared then that Mr. The value set upon his sage counsel and effective help was demonstrated by his appointment as private secretary successively to various permanent and Parliamentary chiefs. In 1902-3 he was a Special Commission to Natal, and in 1912-15 Inspector-General of Finance in Egypt. Higgs was transferred to the Treasury in 1899, and retired in 1921 as a principal clerk. Having entered the Secretary's office in the Post Office by competition for Class I in 1884, Mr. Yule in 1913, in rendering available material left by Giffen for a popular hand-book on "Statistics," as the exhaustive erudition bestowed on the Bibliography was similarly put to good purpose in 1923-26 in a new edition of Palgrave's "Dictionary of Political Economy." The same editorial skill was applied, in partnership with Mr. Treasury, who died on May 21, was an example of a type of Civil servants who, winning commendation for discharge of duties, have also gained repute for contribution to learning outside.īorn in 1864, he became, as a scholar, at University College, London, of which he was afterwards a Fellow, a favourite pupil of Professor Foxwell, whose thought he interpreted in 1905, in the somewhat belated editorship of Jevon's fragment on the "Principles of Economics," and later, by arduous labour on a "Bibliography of Economics" from 1751, the first instalment of which was based on the collections made by Foxwell as the chief business of his life. Henry Higgs, C.B., formerly Principal Clerk in H.M.
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