Howard became active in Conservative Party politics and was appointed Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1962 , presiding over the Conservative Party Conference at Llandudno in that year . In October 1984 , he attended the Conservative Party Conference at Brighton , and was only two rooms away from Norman Tebbit when the Brighton hotel bombing occurred , emerging unscathed
Brighton hotel bombing
Brighton hotel bombing
John Howard (civil engineer)