Ethel Higson
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Research by Marjorie Gregson
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Ethel Higson was born in Blackburn in 1890 to Grace, nee Lawson, and Henry Higson. They were married in 1875 and had four daughters and one son. Ethel was the youngest child. The 1891 and 1901 censuses show the family living in Duke’s Brow, Blackburn with
a domestic servant.
Henry was born in Yorkshire in 1850. He was a cotton manufacturer and was to become the Chairman of North and North East Lancashire Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Association, which practically controlled the weaving trade of Lancashire. There are many items in northern newspapers regarding his involvement in the cotton industry. He also helped to found a new company called Machinery Components Limited.
Henry was on the committee of The New Ragged School in Blackburn, which aimed to educate the poor, and was also a JP. Many of the cases he presided over were reported in the press.
a domestic servant.
Henry was born in Yorkshire in 1850. He was a cotton manufacturer and was to become the Chairman of North and North East Lancashire Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Association, which practically controlled the weaving trade of Lancashire. There are many items in northern newspapers regarding his involvement in the cotton industry. He also helped to found a new company called Machinery Components Limited.
Henry was on the committee of The New Ragged School in Blackburn, which aimed to educate the poor, and was also a JP. Many of the cases he presided over were reported in the press.
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On his move to St Annes, living in St George’s Road, he became President of the St Annes Liberal Association and continued his strong allegiance to the Congregational Church where his funeral took place in 1908 after his sudden death of reported 'heart failure'. The funeral was described at great length in The Burnley Gazette. A large delegation of various organisations attended, with nearly 200 employees coming from Blackburn to pay their respects, extra coaches being attached to the train. In 1911 Ethel was living with her mother and a servant at the same address. Her mother died in 1915. By 1934 Ethel was residing at 18 Myra Road, Fairhaven, Lytham St Annes, and it was from that address that the 3 watercolours Rough Seas off Calais by Alfred Herbert, Bolton Abbey by Bernard W Evans and Highland Scene with Sportsmen, 1856 by John Henry Mole were donated on 21 April 1947. She died in 1959. |
Rough Sea off Calais by Alfred Herbert 1818 -1861
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