Lady Trumpington was born in 1922 and as Miss Jean Barker was one of the young women who worked at Bletchley Park helping to break the German codes during WW2. Many years later she was one of Margaret Thatcher’s ministers. She’s a tough lady, used to smoke 70 cigarettes a day, has a very broad sense of humour and was once described as a “battleaxe”…there’s not many of her sort left anymore but when a colleague in the House of Lords rather patronisingly referred to her elderly years her reaction appeared to be very brief and quite explicit…
