Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins

The Lord Higgins
The Right Honourable; The Lord Higgins; KBE DL PC
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; 1964–1997
Preceded by	Otho Prior-Palmer
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	18 January 1928
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Terence Langley Higgins, Baron Higgins, KBE, DL, PC (born 18 January 1928) is a British Conservative politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England. He also competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]

Biography

Higgins was the Member of Parliament for Worthing from 1964 to 1997,[2] and Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1972 and 1974.[3] He became a Privy Councillor in 1979, and served on the Treasury Select Committee from 1979-92 (serving as Chairman from 1983–92), and on the Liaison Committee from 1983–97.

He served in the RAF from 1946 to 1948, and was a member of British Olympic Team in 1948 and 1952. He was created a life peer as Baron Higgins, of Worthing in the County of West Sussex on 28 October 1997.[4] 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.[5] His wife, Dame Rosalyn Higgins, with whom he has 2 children, was the President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins retired from the House of Lords on 1 January 2019.[6][7]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Otho Prior-Palmer	Member of Parliament for Worthing 1964–1997	constituency abolished
Political offices
Preceded by Patrick Jenkin	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1972–1974	Succeeded by John Gilbert

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