Background
Higgs was the son of Alert W. Higgs, a solicitor from Lye in Worcestershire.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Higgs was the son of Alert W. Higgs, a solicitor from Lye in Worcestershire.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at the University of Birmingham, where he graduated with an Bachelor of Laws He was admitted as a solicitor in 1934.
He was then chairman of Hereford and Worcester County Council from 1973 to 1977. He was elected at the 1950 general election as the Member of Parliament for the newly created Bromsgrove division of Worcestershire. He was re-elected in 1951, and stood down from the House of Commons at the 1955 general election.
He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire in August 1968, and it was announced in the 1969 New Year Honours that he was to be knighted.
The knighthood was conferred on 11 February 1969, in Buckingham Palace.
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During World 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 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.