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The Right Honourable
The Lord Higgins
KBE DL PC
Official portrait of Lord Higgins crop 2
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
Personal details
Born 18 January 1928(1928-01-18) (age 97)
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
T
Medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for Flag of England England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1950 Auckland 4x440 yard relay

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 to 1992 (serving as chairman from 1983 to 1992), and on the Liaison Committee from 1983 to 1997.

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
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Naseby
Gentlemen
Baron Higgins
Followed by
The Lord Stone of Blackheath
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