Mervyn Pike
Template:Short description Template:More footnotes Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, Template:Postnominals (16 September 1918 – 11 January 2004) was a British Conservative politician. The name by which she came to be known, Mervyn, had been the name of her father's best friend, who was to have been her godfather; when he was killed in action, a few days before she was born, her father decided that the baby would take his name.[1]
Early life
Born in Castleford, Yorkshire,[2] into a family of Castleford pottery manufacturers, Pike was educated at Hunmanby Hall (East Riding of Yorkshire) and at Reading University and served with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. She was managing director of a firm of pottery manufacturers.[1]
Career
Pike contested Pontefract in 1951 and Leek in 1955 without success. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Melton at a by-election in December 1956. She held several positions including Assistant Postmaster-General from 1959 to 1963, joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1963 to 1964 and Chair of the WRVS from 1974 to 1981 and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission from 1981 to 1985.
Awards
Pike was created a life peer on 15 May 1974 as Baroness Pike, of Melton in Leicestershire,[3] and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1981 Birthday Honours.[4]
Death
She died in 2004, unmarried, at a nursing home in Kelso, Scottish Borders, aged 85, from pneumonia following a stroke.[2]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "template wrapper". Template:Link note
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Announcement of Pike's death in the House of Lords – minutes of proceedings, 13 January 2004
- Pages with script errors
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB
- Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y
- 1918 births
- 2004 deaths
- Alumni of the University of Reading
- British women in World War II
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Conservative Party (UK) life peers
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Politicians from Castleford
- Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II
- Life peers created by Elizabeth II
- UK MPs 1955–1959
- UK MPs 1959–1964
- UK MPs 1964–1966
- UK MPs 1966–1970
- UK MPs 1970–1974
- UK MPs who were granted peerages
- 20th-century British women politicians
- Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964
- 20th-century English women
- 20th-century English people