For the British spiritualist medium, see Gordon Higginson (medium)Sir Gordon Robert Higginson, DL, DEng, FREng (8 November 1929 – 5 November 2011) was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton for nine years from 1985 to 1994. He was co-author of the standard text on hydrodynamic lubrication and the Higginson Report on A levels.