TORY grandee Lord Norman Tebbit has left almost £1.9million to his children in his will.
He died at the age of 94 last July, and had been a strong ally of Margaret Thatcher during his career.
But the former minister was forced to resign from the Cabinet a few years after narrowly surviving the 1984 Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA.
After his death was announced, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had called him a “titan of Conservative politics”.
Documents show his final estate was valued at £1,896,000.
Lord Tebbit, who was MP for Chingford, in North East London, left his money in trust for his two sons and daughter.
His wife Margaret, who had worked as a nurse before suffering serious injuries in the IRA atrocity, died in 2020.
The politician left the Cabinet following the 1987 general election to care for his wife.
Mr Tebbit considered standing for party leadership after Thatcher’s resignation in 1990 but ultimately decided against it, before opting not to stand for re-election as MP for Chingford in 1992.
He was later given a life peerage to sit in the House of Lords as Baron Tebbit, of Chingford, before retiring from the House in 2022.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Mr Tebbit “was an icon in British politics and his death will cause sadness across the political spectrum”.
Tory peer Lord Dobbs paid tribute to the late politician as “a man of tremendous courage”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Lord Dobbs, who served as the former employment secretary’s chief of staff, said the political veteran had been frail “for quite some time”.
Asked what Lord Tebbit was like 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.”
