 Higgins died at Melbourne on 6 October 1937 and was buried in Box Hill Cemetery.Sir John Higgins was married on 14 November 1889 to Frances Anna Maegraith/Magraith (1852-1932), later Dame Frances, the youngest daughter of Captain Robert Lovell Magraith (Maegraith; the second son of the Earl of Antrim) and Anna Balfour, of North Adelaide.Sir John Higgins and Frances Anna Higgins had no children.