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In his one-page will, made in 2016, he left his whole estate to his better half Lady Nancy Ingham, a previous policeman
MARGARET Thatcher’s longest-serving press secretary left more than ₤ 1million in his will, legal files reveal.
Sir Bernard Ingham passed away on February 24 in 2015 aged 90 and left an estate worth ₤ 1,084,708.
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Typically referred to as irascible, affable and funny, his bushy eyebrows were when compared to a set of mating squirrels.
In his one-page will, made in 2016, he left his whole estate to his partner Lady Nancy Ingham, a previous policeman.
As she passed away in 2017, his fortune goes to his only kid John Ingham, a reporter on the Daily Express who retired in 2021.
Ingham was born in 1932 and went to Hebden Bridge Grammar School before joining his regional paper the Hebden Bridge Times at the age of 16.
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He transferred to the Yorkshire Post, where he satisfied his better half Nancy covering cases at the regional magistrates’ court.
He signed up with the Leeds workplace of the Guardian in 1962, ending up being a Labour activist, and stood unsuccessfully for the city board.
He went on to end up being a federal government press officer, and worked as Baroness Thatcher’s press secretary for eleven years.
He was a respected reporter, and in the 1970s he likewise worked as a press officer for Labour MPs Barbara Castle and Tony Benn
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After leaving Downing Streethe composed his memoirs Kill The Messenger and worked as a political expert, paper writer, a cruise speaker, an after-dinner speaker, and a political expert.
He retired in 1990, aged 58, 2 weeks after Mrs Thatcher’s resignation