Monarch Queen Mary I Profession Barrister Spouse Anne Waldegrave Nationality English Died March 9, 1571 | Role Politician Name Clement Higham | |
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Relations grandson in law of Sir Robert Drury | ||
Sir Clement Higham (also Heigham) of Barrow, Suffolk (born by 1495 – 9 March 1571) was an English lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House of Commons (1554–1555), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and a Privy Councillor to Queen Mary. He was also a barrister-at-law and a Reader and Governor of Lincoln's Inn in London.
Higham was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich April 1554; for Rye October 1553; West Looe November 1554 and Lancaster 1558.
Higham was buried in the parish church at Barrow, Suffolk, where there is an altar tomb in the chancel with effigy brasses, arms, and long eulogistic inscription, and his heraldic coat of arms is displayed in a window at Lincoln's Inn.
Family
Higham married (after 1528) Anne (1506–1590), daughter of Sir George Waldegrave (1483–1528) of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, by his wife Anne (d. 1572), daughter of Sir Robert Drury, Lord of the Manors of Thurston, and Hawstead, Suffolk, (1455–1536). (See also Waldegrave family.)
Sir John Heigham, M.P. for Ipswich, is stated to have been his eldest son by his first marriage.