Margaret Tebbit

Margaret Elizabeth Tebbit, Baroness Tebbit (; 24 May 1934 – 19 December 2020) was an English nurse who was paralysed from the chest down by the Provisional IRA's 12 October 1984 bombing of the Grand Brighton Hotel, where she was staying with her husband, Norman Tebbit (then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry), during the Conservative Party Conference. She was disabled for the rest of her life and needed round the clock care.

Early life Tebbit was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, to Stan Daines, a tenant farmer and his wife Elsie (née Negus); she had eight siblings. After leaving school aged 16, she became a nurse. In 1955, she met Norman Tebbit at Westminster Hospital, London. They married at Westminster Congregational Chapel in 1956.

Brighton hotel bombing (1984) On 12 October 1984, Margaret and Norman Tebbit were among the 31 people who were injured in the Brighton hotel bombing; five people were killed. Margaret Tebbit was more seriously injured than her husband; she had fallen through four floors and remained trapped for several hours. she compared her experiences of severe post-natal depression with her later physical disability. having had depression and Lewy body dementia.