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The Lord Higgins | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2018 | |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 7 April 1972 –4 March 1974 | |
Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
Preceded by | Patrick Jenkin |
Succeeded by | John Gilbert |
Member of Parliament for Worthing | |
In office 15 October 1964 –8 April 1997 | |
Preceded by | Otho Prior-Palmer |
Succeeded by | constituency abolished |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 28 October 1997 –1 January 2019 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 January 1928 |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge |
Medal record | ||
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Men's athletics | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
Commonwealth Games | ||
![]() | 1950 Auckland | 4x440 yard relay |
Terence Langley Higgins,Baron Higgins, KBE , DL , PC (born 18 January 1928) [1] is a British former Conservative Party politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England. He also competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics. [2]
Born in 1928,Higgins was educated at Alleyn's School,Dulwich. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1948,and was a member of British Olympic Team in 1948 and 1952.[ citation needed ] In 1948 he immigrated to New Zealand,where he worked for a shipping firm,but seven years later returned to Britain to study economics as a mature student at Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge. During his time at Cambridge,Higgins was President of the Cambridge Union. After graduating in 1958,he spent a year as an economics lecturer at Yale University before choosing to work for Unilever as an economist. [1]
Higgins was the Member of Parliament for Worthing from 1964 to 1997, [3] and Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1972 and 1974. [4] He became a Privy Councillor in 1979,and served on the Treasury Select Committee from 1979 to 1992 (serving as chairman from 1983 to 1992),and on the Liaison Committee from 1984 to 1997. [1]
Higgins was created a life peer as Baron Higgins,of Worthing in the County of West Sussex on 28 October 1997. [5] While in opposition,he served as the Conservative shadow minister for work and pensions in the House of Lords. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 New Years Honours List. [6] Higgins retired from the House of Lords on 1 January 2019. [7] [8]
His wife,Dame Rosalyn Higgins,with whom he has two children,was the President of the International Court of Justice.