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 Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove from 1950 to 1955.

Early life and family

The son of Albert W. Higgs, a solicitor from Lye (then in Worcestershire),[2] Michael Higgs was educated at Shrewsbury School and at the University of Birmingham, where he earned his LL.B. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1934. He married twice: first in May 1936 to Diana Louise Jerrams (died 1950), 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. 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. "No. 38856". The London Gazette. 7 March 1950. p. 1162.
4. "No. 39372". The London Gazette. 30 October 1951. p. 5665.
5. "No. 44652". The London Gazette. 9 August 1968. p. 8752.
6. "No. 44740". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 December 1968. pp. 1–2.
7. "No. 44790". The London Gazette. 14 February 1969. p. 1705.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Michael Higgs

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