Michael Higgs (politician)

Sir John Michael Clifford Higgs DL (30 May 1912 – 20 October 1995)[1] was a solicitor from Brierley Hill who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove from 1950 to 1955.

Early life and family

Higgs was the son of Alert W. Higgs, a solicitor from Lye in Worcestershire.[2]

He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at the University of Birmingham, where he graduated with an LL.B.[2] He was admitted as a solicitor in 1934.[2]

He married twice: first in May 1936 to Diana Louise Jerrams (died 1950) of Springfield Clent, and secondly in June 1952 to Rachel Mary Jones, from Pedmore, Stourbridge.[2]

Career

During World War II he served with the Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1942, and then from 1942 to 1946 as a member of the Judge Advocate-General's staff.[2]

He was a member of Staffordshire County Council from 1946 to 1949, and of Worcestershire County Council from 1953 to 1973, serving as the chairman of the latter from to 1959 to 1973.[2] He was then chairman of Hereford and Worcester County Council from 1973 to 1977.[2]

He was elected at the 1950 general election as the MP for the newly created Bromsgrove division of Worcestershire.[3] He was re-elected in 1951,[4] and stood down from the House of Commons at the 1955 general election.

He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire in August 1968,[5] and it was announced in the 1969 New Year Honours that he was to be knighted.[6] The knighthood was conferred on 11 February 1969, in Buckingham Palace.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Stenton, Michael; Lees, Stephens (1981). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume IV, 1945–1979. Brighton: The Harvester Press. p. 166. ISBN 0-85527-335-6.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 38856. p. 1162. 7 March 1950. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 39372. p. 5665. 30 October 1951. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 44652. p. 8752. 9 August 1968. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44740. pp. 1–2. 20 December 1968. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 44790. p. 1705. 14 February 1969. Retrieved 14 August 2010.

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New constituency Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove
1950 – 1955 		Succeeded by
James Dance