| Biography | Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC (born 29 March 1931), is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (198183), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (198385), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (198587) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (198587). He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping (197074) and Chingford (197492).
In 1984, he was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where he was staying during the Conservative Party Conference. His wife Margaret was left permanently disabled after the blast. He left the government after the 1987 general election to care for his wife. He considered standing for the Conservative leadership after Margaret Thatcher's resignation in 1990, but came to the decision not to stand as he had earlier made a commitment to his wife to retire from front-line politics. He gave up his parliamentary seat for Chingford in 1992, and has since sat in the House of Lords as Baron Tebbit, of Chingford. |