Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - Civil engineeringHistoryGeorge Higgins was born at Borriso'kane, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, son of the Rev. John Higgins, Wesleyan minister (and brother of H.B. Higgins). The family arrived in Melbourne in February 1870; and in February 1875, George passed the Matriculation Examination. That year he enrolled at the University of Melbourne in Civil Engineering, graduating M.C.E. on 7 April 1888. He was appointed Lecturer in Surveying, 1905-6, Surveying, Civil Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering 1907-10 and Civil Engineering in 1911-21.
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