UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Francis Pym

Born: 13 February 1922

Died: 7 March 2008

Baron Pym - 9 October 1987

Member of Privy Council - 22 June 1970

husband of Valerie Fortune Dalgleish

Eton College

Magdalene College, Cambridge

Government Chief Whip	1970	1973
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	1973	March 1974
Secretary of State for Defence	May 1979	14 September 1981
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	5 January 1981	14 September 1981
Paymaster General	5 January 1981	14 September 1981
Leader of the House of Commons	5 January 1981	5 April 1982
Lord President of the Council	14 September 1981	7 April 1982
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	6 April 1982	11 June 1983

8 October 1959	Rhondda West	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,242	11.05
16 March 1961	Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,643	45.91
15 October 1964	Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,883	47.98
31 March 1966	Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,600	47.64
18 June 1970	Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,264	54.58
28 February 1974	Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,638	47.03
10 October 1974	Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,508	47.52
3 May 1979	Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	41,218	56.52
9 June 1983	South East Cambridgeshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,555	57.56