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 himself to literary labour. He died 7 Dec. 1835, leaving numerous works, including Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty and Government (1776); Dissertations on Duelling and Suicide (Prize Essays, 1784-5); Happiness and Rights (1792); Some Principles of Civilization (1815). He also published a Tragedy, The Captive Monarch (1794), and a Novel, Edington (1796), but his chief work was a Dissertation on the Pernicious Effects of Gaming, which gained the University Prize in 1783.

Admitted 10 January, 1765.

Eldest son of Daniel Heyward of Charlestown, South Carolina. He was born at St. Luke's, South Carolina, in 1746. After his course at the Temple he returned home and was elected to the Congress of 1775, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. In 1778 he was appointed a State Judge. He died in March, 1809.

Admitted 27 April, 1665.

Second son of John Higdon of St. Clement Danes, born in Yorkshire. He was called to the Bar 14 May, 1686, but there is no record of his ever practising the Law. In 1686 and 1687 he published Essays on the Satires of Juvenal, and in 1693 brought out a Comedy at Drury Lane, entitled The Wary Widow, in which there were so many drinking scenes that the actors all got fuddled before the end of the play. He appears to have been a friend of Dryden, Sedley, and other wits of the time.

Admitted 12 November, 1687.

Third son of (q.v.) of Grewell, Hants. He matriculated at Oxford in 1686 but afterwards removed to Cambridge. Whilst there he wrote some verses addressed to the Queen on the Birth of a Prince, inserted in a collection by the University on the occasion. With his brother he was charged with plotting against the life of William III., and was committed to prison in 1695. From the time of his release till his death in 1735 he spent his life in literary pursuits, and is known as the author of the following works: The Generous Conqueror, a Tragedy (1702); A Short View of the English History to the Revolution 1688 (1723); Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History of his own Times (1725); History of Mary Queen of Scots (1753).

Admitted 4 February, 1639-40.

Son and heir of the Rev. Thomas Higgons, D.D., of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He married the widow of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and devoted himself to politics. He represented Malmesbury and New Windsor in Parliament and was knighted in 1663. He was subsequently entrusted with diplomatic missions to Paris and elsewhere, and on his return was elected for St. Germans, Cornwall, 1685. He died suddenly of apoplexy in the King's Bench in 1691, where he was a witness in a case between the Duchess of Albemarle and the Earl of Bath. He was the author of a Panegerick (in