| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Higgins | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | KBE DL PC |
| Office: | Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
| Term Start: | 7 April 1972 |
| Primeminister: | Edward Heath |
| Term End: | 4 March 1974 |
| Predecessor: | Patrick Jenkin |
| Successor: | John Gilbert |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament for Worthing |
| Term Start1: | 15 October 1964 |
| Term End1: | 8 April 1997 |
| Predecessor1: | Otho Prior-Palmer |
| Successor1: | constituency abolished |
| Office2: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start2: | 28 October 1997 |
| Term End2: | 1 January 2019 Life peerage |
| Birth Date: | 18 January 1928 |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Alma Mater: | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Terence Langley Higgins, Baron Higgins, (born 18 January 1928)[1] is a British former Conservative Party politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England. He also competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[2]
Born in 1928, Higgins was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1948, and was a member of British Olympic Team in 1948 and 1952. In 1948 he immigrated to New Zealand, where he worked for a shipping firm, but seven years later returned to Britain to study economics as a mature student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. During his time at Cambridge, Higgins was President of the Cambridge Union. After graduating in 1958, he spent a year as an economics lecturer at Yale University before choosing to work for Unilever as an economist.[1]
Higgins was the Member of Parliament for Worthing from 1964 to 1997,[3] and Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1972 and 1974.[4] 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 1984 to 1997.
Higgins was created a life peer as Baron 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 Years Honours List. Higgins retired from the House of Lords on 1 January 2019.[5] [6]
His wife, Dame Rosalyn Higgins, with whom he has two children, was the President of the International Court of Justice.