Michael Higgs

Sir John Michael Clifford Higgs DL (30 May 1912 – 20 October 1995) 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), 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. 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, at Buckingham Palace.