William Alpheus Higgs

d. 1889

Biography

William Alpheus Higgs (c. 1838 – 23 December 1889) was a London tea merchant who served as sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1887. He was a liveryman of several of the city's guilds and at the time of his death had been selected as a Radical candidate for a parliamentary constituency in north London.

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