He was born in Kent, England and migrated to Rhodesia in the 1950s where he joined the police force, attaining the rank of Detective Inspector.
[1] He opened Gallery Delta in 1975 with his wife Helen Lieros for the promotion of contemporary painting.
[7] The space has been an incubator for two generations of Zimbabwean artists that include Lovemore Kambudzi, Arthur Azevedo, Luis Meque, Hilary Kashiri, George Churu, Tapfuma Gutsa, Marjorie Wallace, Gillian Resselli, Thakor Patel, Rashid Jogee, Helen Lieros, Berry Bickle, Gerry Dixon, Richard Jack, Albert Wachi, Masimba Hwati, Victor Nyakauru, Greg Shaw, Virginia Chihota, Tafadzwa Gwetai, Cosmos Shiridzinomwa, Stephen Williams, Shepherd Mahufe, Daryl Nero, Misheck Masamvu, Kate Raath, Portia Zvavahera, and Johnson Zuze.
[8] Before Zimbabwe's independence, Huggins was the chief executive officer of Rhodesia's National Arts Foundation (1975–1985), and was instrumental in the institution's transformation into the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe through an Act of Parliament in 1985.
[10] After a push from his friend, the writer Yvonne Vera, his only book of short stories, Stained Earth, was published in Harare in 2005 by Weaver Press.