Clement Higham

Who was Clement Higham?

Sir Clement Higham of Barrow, Suffolk was an English lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House of Commons, 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 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.