Higgins, Matthew James, essayist, wrote under the nom de plume of “Jacob Omnium,” born at Benown, Ireland; was educated at Eton and Oxford, and spent many years in European travel; his numerous papers, which appeared in the leading magazines and newspapers, were principally directed against social abuses, and are characterised by a humour and pungent irony not unlike his friend Thackeray's (1810‒1868).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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