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Born in Stowmarket, Suffolk, on 29 May 1911, the only son of the Revd Arthur Hesketh Higson of Godalming, Surrey, He was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire (1925-1930) and then Corpus where he achieved a 2nd class degree in Jurisprudence in 1934 and was a member of the University Air Squadron. He then became first an Articled Clerk and was admitted as a Solicitor in 1938, working in the Treasury Solicitors Office. He married Jean, the daughter of E R Eddison, CB, CMG, in 1939 and they had a daughter. He served in the RAF on raids over Germany and Italy until he was killed in action on 16 August 1940 (aged 29); he was recommended for a posthumous VC for his actions on the night he was killed, holding the plane steady until the rest of the crew had bailed out.