David Lightbown

Sir David Lincoln Lightbown (30 November 1932 – 12 December 1995) was a British politician who was the Conservative Member of Parliament for South East Staffordshire from 1983 until his death.

Background Lightbown was born Derby in 1932, and attended the Derby School and Derby Technical College. He was an engineering executive who had an adversarial relationship with the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Lightbown held right-wing views, endorsing capital punishment and advertising on the BBC, as well as supporting England's 1984 rugby union tour of South Africa under apartheid. He opposed the ordination of divorced men in the Church of England. On 12 December 1995, he was watching The Varsity Match at Twickenham Stadium, when he collapsed and died at the age of 63. The resulting by-election for his seat was won by the Labour Party candidate Brian Jenkins.

His widow, Lady Lightbown, contested his successor seat of Tamworth at the 1997 general election but was defeated by Brian Jenkins.