Sir John Michael Clifford Higgs DL (30 May 1912 – 20 October 1995) [1] was a solicitor from Brierley Hill who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove from 1950 to 1955.
The son of Albert W. Higgs, a solicitor from Lye (then in Worcestershire), [2] 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. [2]
During 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. [2]
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. [2] He was then chairman of Hereford and Worcester County Council from 1973 to 1977. [2]
He was elected at the 1950 general election as the MP for the newly created Bromsgrove division of Worcestershire. [3] He was re-elected in 1951, [4] and stood down from the House of Commons at the 1955 general election.
He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire in August 1968, [5] and it was announced in the 1969 New Year Honours that he was to be knighted. [6] The knighthood was conferred on 11 February 1969, in Buckingham Palace. [7]