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Mar 7, 2008 · The Lord Pym, who died yesterday aged 86, was a classic casualty of the shift in Conservative Party attitudes from paternalism to laissez-faire liberalism. ... Francis Pym served with distinction ...
Mar 7, 2008 · Francis Pym, the British foreign secretary during the 1982 Falklands War, has died at the age of 86, it was announced today. Members of his family said the peer, who served as Margaret Thatcher's ...
Francis Pym (27 October 1756 – 4 December 1833) was a British M.P. and High Sheriff. Biography [ edit ] Francis was the son of William Pym and Elizabeth née Kingsley and lived at the family seat of Hasells Hall (which he considerably improved) in Sandy, Bedfordshire .
Nov 3, 2014 · The article sets out how, in her first six months as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher repeatedly prioritised defence spending over economic policy and financial control, and then, during the course of 1980, was persuaded to reverse this position, eventually resulting in the removal of Sir Francis Pym as Defence Secretary.
Mar 8, 2008 · Francis Pym's forebears included lawyers, bishops and MPs. His father, Leslie Pym, a wealthy landowner, was a Conservative MP for Monmouth between 1939 and 1945 and has a footnote in election history.
Feb 13, 2023 · Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, MC, PC, DL was a British Conservative Party politician who served in various Cabinet positions in the 1970s and 1980s, including Foreign, Defence and Northern Ireland Secretary, and Leader of the House of Commons. He was Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1961 to 1987. Pym was made a life peer in 1987.
Feb 18, 2007 · Francis Pym’s cubist sculptural tour de force, completed in 1971, is internationally renowned for its daring and prescient splicing together of old and new and for what the architectural historian David Evans calls the “almost barbaric power of its great cubic projections and cantilevers, brooding over the conifers of the Botanic Gardens ...
