Conservative grandee Lord Norman Tebbit has left almost £1.9million in his will to his children, The Sun has revealed.
Lord Tebbit died last July at the age of 94 and was one of Margaret Thatcher’s close allies throughout the course of his career.
The former minister resigned in 1990, just a few years after narrowly surviving the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA.
Upon the announcement of his death last year, the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called him a “titan of Conservative politics”.
According to documents reported on by The Sun, his final estate was valued at £1,896,000.
The late MP for Chingford, in North East London, kept his money in trust for his two sons and daughter.
His wife, Margaret, was formerly a nurse but became permanently disabled after the IRA bombing and died in 2020.
Mr Tebbit left the Cabinet to care for his wife after the 1987 general election.
He had briefly considered standing for party leadership when Thatcher resigned in 1990, but ultimately decided against it, and opted against standing for re-election as the MP for Chingford in 1992.
He was subsequently given a life peerage to sit in the House of Lords as Baron Tebbit, of Chingford, and later retired from the House in 2022.
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservatives, described Mr Tebbit as “an icon in British politics and his death will cause sadness across the political spectrum”.
He was commended as “a man of tremendous courage” by Tory peer Lord Dobbs on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Lord Dobbs, who had previously served as his chief of staff, said Mr Tebbit had been frail “for quite some time”.
When he was asked how he remembered Lord Tebbit as a person, Lord Dobbs said: “My emotions are incredibly mixed, because he was such a good friend over so many decades.
“But he was a man of great humour, great political insight… but he was a man of tremendous courage too.”
