[citation needed] In 1948 he immigrated to New Zealand, where he worked for a shipping firm, but seven years later returned to Britain to study economics as a mature student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

After graduating in 1958, he spent a year as an economics lecturer at Yale University before choosing to work for Unilever as an economist.

[5] While in opposition, he served as the Conservative shadow minister for work and pensions in the House of Lords.

[7][8] His wife, Dame Rosalyn Higgins, with whom he has two children, was the President of the International Court of Justice.

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