Education
Street Catharine"s College.
Street Catharine"s College.
Educated at Loughborough Grammar School, Welbeck College and Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge, Figgures was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1970. In 1995 he was appointed Commander of Equipment Support at Headquarters Land Command from where he was deployed to Bosnia for which he was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1998 he went to the Royal College of Defence Studies and was then appointed Director of Operational Requirements (Land). In 2004 he became Technical Director at the Defence Procurement Agency and Master-General of the Ordnance.
Then in 2006 he became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Equipment Capability).
He retired in October 2009. In March 2010 he became Chief Executive of the British Transport Police Authority.