The Right Honourable The Lord Higgins KBE DL PC | |
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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 |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
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Men's athletics | ||
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Commonwealth Games | ||
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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]
References[]
- ↑ "Terry Higgins". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/terry-higgins-1.html. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ↑ "Worthing MP's plan could 'save nation millions'". Mid Sussex Times. 30 January 2008. http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/worthing-news/Worthing-MPs-plan-could-save.3725352.jp. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ↑ Cairncross, Frances; Cairncross, Alec (1992). The Legacy of the golden age: the 1960s and their economic consequences. Routledge. p. 194. ISBN 0-415-07154-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=OK0OAAAAQAAJ.
- ↑ "No. 54936". 3 November 1997. p. 12333. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/54936/page/12333
- ↑ "No. 53153". 31 December 1992. p. 7. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/53153/supplement/7
- ↑ https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-higgins/1067
- ↑ "Lord Higgins". UK Parliament. https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-higgins/1067.
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Terence Higgins
- Terry Higgins at Olympedia
- Terence Langley Higgins at the International Olympic Committee
- Template:Olympic Channel
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