Former Conservative minister and journalist Aubrey Jones, who died at the age of 91, has left almost £300,000 in his will.
Mr Jones, who lived in Westhampnett, near Chichester, was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He died on April 10.
In his will, published this week, Mr Jones left £282,287, mostly to his wife Joan, from Felpham, near Bognor.
Mr Jones joined The Times in 1937 and remained with the newspaper until 1948.
During the Second World War, while working in Army intelligence, he served in the War Office and in the Mediterranean from 1940 to 1946.
He was elected Unionist MP for Hall Green, Birmingham, in 1950.
He was appointed general director of the Iron and Steel Federation in 1955 but interrupted his business career to become minister of fuel and power, later the minister of supply, until October 1959. He was appointed a privy councillor in 1955.
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