Patrick Higgins

Sir Daniel Patrick Higgins (born ) is a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. He was the chairman of the Palmerston North-based construction firm, Higgins Group, until it was sold to Fletcher Building in 2016.

Early life and family Higgins was born in Christchurch in about 1938, the son of Phyllis and Irish-born Dan Higgins. The family moved to Palmerston North in 1947, where Dan Higgins founded what became the Higgins Group in 1951. Pat Higgins married his wife, Jennifer Kay Johnson, in about 1962, and the couple went on to have four children.

Philanthropy Higgins began donating to community groups, sporting bodies and charities in the Manawatū in the 1980s. He was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to philanthropy and the community, in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours.

In 2007, Higgins was named Manawatū sports personality of the year,

Later life Higgins' wife, Kay, Lady Higgins, died in November 2012.