Toby Henry Francis Jessel (11 July 1934 – 3 December 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Twickenham from 1970 to 1997.

[1] He was the great-grandson of Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted,[2] and his great-great uncle was the judge George Jessel.

[3] His sister Camilla married the Polish-born composer Andrzej Panufnik.

[4] Jessel joined the Conservative Party, and served as a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 1964.

Jessel played the piano from an early age, and unsuccessfully applied to study at the Royal Academy of Music during his youth.