biography
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Pym (of Sandy), Francis (Leslie) Pym, Baron
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pronunciation:
[pim]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| British statesman. He studied at Cambridge, and was a Conservative MP from 1961, his advancement coming through the whips' office, before being appointed secretary of state for Northern Ireland (1973–4). He was defence secretary (1979–81), and foreign secretary during the Falklands Crisis of 1982. Dropped from the government following the Conservatives' 1983 election victory, it seemed that he might lead an anti-Thatcher faction within the Conservative Party, but support for his ‘Centre Forward’ group failed to coalesce, and he accepted a life peerage in 1987. |
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