Jack Higginson was a journalist and poet. He was the son of Queensland station manager James Clinton Higginson, and his wife Elizabeth (nee Ord), and he spent a good part of his early life living on cattle and sheep stations in western and central Queensland. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School, where he excelled at sport. In 1896 he briefly represented Queensland at Rugby Union. During the Boer War, he volunteered and served in the 2nd Queensland Contingent. In the years following the Boer War, he then worked in the colonial administration in New Guinea, before turning to journalism. During World War I, he again volunteered and served as an officer in the 1st Light Horse Brigade. Full details of Higginson's journalism career remain to be established, however at various points he is known to have worked on newspapers at Charters Towers, Brisbane (Truth), Melbourne (Punch) and Sydney. He joined the Sydney Bulletin as a columnist in March 1927, and remained there until his death in January 1939.