George Higginson


General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson GCB, GCVO was a British Army officer and veteran of the Crimean War who served more thanyears in the Grenadier Guards.

Higginson was born in 1826 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. He was the son of General George Powell Higginson, Grenadier Guards, who distinguished himself at the Battle of Corunna, and Lady Frances Elizabeth Needham, daughter of the 1st Earl of Kilmorey. He spent his childhood in West London, which at that time consisted of villages and fields, and was educated at Eton College.

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