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Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC (born 29 March 1931),〔 is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–83), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1983–85), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1985–87) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–87). He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping (1970–74) and Chingford (1974–92). In 1984, he was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where he was staying during the Conservative Party Conference. His wife Margaret was left permanently disabled after the explosion.〔''The Independent'' Tebbit interview with Deborah Ross 3 October 2009: ("Norman Tebbit: 'Margaret and I both made the same mistake. We neglected to clone ourselves'" )〕 He left the government after the 1987 general election to care for his wife.〔Tebbit, p. 332.〕 He considered standing for the Conservative leadership after Margaret Thatcher's resignation in 1990, but came to the decision not to stand as he had earlier made a commitment to his wife to retire from front-line politics.〔(New Statesman – The New Statesman Interview – Norman Tebbit ) 〕 He gave up his parliamentary seat for Chingford in 1992, and has since sat in the House of Lords as Baron Tebbit, of Chingford. ==Early life and career before politics== Born in Ponders End, Middlesex to working class parents, Tebbit went to Edmonton County Grammar School,〔 which was then an academically selective state school in north London. Tebbit worked as a journalist for the ''Financial Times'' before serving with the Royal Air Force, during which time he flew Meteor and Vampire jets. In July 1954, at RAF Waterbeach near Cambridge, he had to break open the cockpit canopy of a burning Meteor 8 aircraft to escape from it, unknowingly fracturing two vertebrae in the accident.〔''(FlyPast )'' (Key Publishing) magazine interview (in May 2014) with Norman Wells, October 2014 edition〕 On leaving the RAF he joined BOAC in 1953 as a navigator and pilot, while initially continuing to fly in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force with 604 (County of Middlesex) Squadron at North Weald in Essex.〔Norman Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile〕 Of his airline navigation training, he later said: "In those days it was a considerable academic syllabus. You had to be up to speed on spherical trigonometry to get through it.” 〔 During his time at BOAC he was an official in the British Air Line Pilots' Association. He flew Avro Yorks, Argonauts, Britannias, DC7Cs and the Boeing 707. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman Tebbit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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