Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. He was a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Blaby from 1974 to 1992 and served in the cabinet of Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1989.
Prior to entering the Cabinet, he served as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 1979 until his promotion to Secretary of State for Energy.
He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 1983 and served until his resignation in October 1989.
Vanessa Salmon is the ex-wife of Nigel Lawson.
Nigel Lawson ex-wife: Who is Vanessa Salmon?
A notorious society beauty, Salmon was heiress to the J. Lyons & Co catering dynasty and wife of Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983 to 1989.
Salmon trained as a ballet dancer before quitting to marry Lawson aged nineteen, with whom she had four children.
She later married philosopher Sir Freddie Aher after divorcing Lawson in 1980. Salmon had a childlike quality: she was petite with a thick black bob and dressed in doll-like clothing, including baby-doll dresses, puff-sleeves, and floral prints.
She was often unpredictable, swinging from rage to joviality, and even as her family business hit a crisis point in the 1960s, totally oblivious to the financial realities of the world around her.
Friends recall that Salmon had a wonderful sense of humor, with an air of debutant charm instilled by her affluent childhood.
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne swapped shirts with Salmon in the middle of a crowded restaurant in Brighton during a Conservative Party conference, and the columnist Alan Watkins commented: “Most men I know fell madly in love with her”.