Terence Higgins
Terence Langley Higgins, Rt Hon. the Lord Higgins KBE DL, was born on 18 January 1928. He is a retired British Conservative politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England.
Political Career[edit]
Higgins was Member of Parliament for Worthing from 1964 to 1997, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1972 and 1974. 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 Lord Higgins, of Worthing in the County of West Sussex on 28 October 1997. 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 Year’s Honours List.
