Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins
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Terence Langley Higgins, Baron Higgins KBE DL PC (born 18 January 1928) is a British Conservative politician.
He was Member of Parliament for Worthing from 1964 to 1997,[1] and Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1972 and 1974.[2]
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 October 28, 1997. While in opposition, he served as the Conservative shadow minister for work and pensions in the House of Lords.
His wife, Rosalyn Higgins, is formerly the President of the International Court of Justice.
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- ↑ Worthing MP's plan could 'save nation millions'. Mid Sussex Times, 30. Januar 2008, abgerufen am 24. März 2010.
- ↑ Frances Cairncross, Alec Cairncross: The Legacy of the golden age: the 1960s and their economic consequences. Routledge, 1992, ISBN 0-415-07154-2, S. 194 (google.co.uk).
- 1928 births
- Living people
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- Royal Air Force officers
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Conservative Party (UK) life peers
- Presidents of the Cambridge Union Society
- Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- UK MPs 1964–1966
- UK MPs 1966–1970
- UK MPs 1970–1974
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–1979
- UK MPs 1979–1983
- UK MPs 1983–1987
- UK MPs 1987–1992
- UK MPs 1992–1997
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- People educated at Alleyn's School