Overview

• Lord Tebbit died peacefully at his home in Bury St Edmunds on July 7 at the age of 94.
• The July 31 funeral at St Edmundsbury Cathedral was attended by senior Conservatives such as Lord Deben, Jeffrey Archer, Iain Duncan Smith and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
• Lord Michael Dobbs praised him as “a giant, an inspiring leader” while Sir Iain Duncan Smith gave a reading from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
• His children William, Alison and John shared personal memories of his political influence and decades of devoted care for his wife Margaret.
• The family has asked mourners to make donations in his memory to St Nicholas Hospice and the East Anglian Air Ambulance.