John Philips Higman
John Philips Higman FRS was an Anglican rector and mathematician.
At age 19 Higman matriculated on 2 June 1812 at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1816 and M.A. in 1819. In he was a Fellow of 1818 of Trinity College and from 1822 to 1834 he was a tutor there. The students he tutored included Augustus De Morgan and John Grote. On 23 May 1820 Higman was elected F.R.S. On 28 October 1821 he was ordained an Anglican priest. In 1823 he gave the Rede Lecture in Philosophy. In From 1834 to 1855 he was Rector of the Anglican Parish of Fakenham, Norfolk.
On 28 March 1837 he married Anastasia Read.Selected publications
