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Shadow Foreign Secretary
In office 6 November 1978 – 4 May 1979
Leader	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	John Davies
Succeeded by	Peter Shore
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
In office 19 November 1976 – 6 November 1978
Leader	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	John Peyton
Succeeded by	Norman St John-Stevas
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office 15 January 1976 – 19 November 1976
Leader	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Joseph Godber
Succeeded by	Michael Jopling
In office 11 March 1974 – April 1975
Leader	Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Norman Buchan
Succeeded by	Michael Jopling
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 4 March 1974 – 19 June 1974
Leader	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Merlyn Rees
Succeeded by	Ian Gilmour
Opposition Deputy Chief Whip of theHouse of Commons
In office 22 February 1967 – 19 June 1970
Leader	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Brian Batsford
Succeeded by	Walter Harrison

Parliamentary offices

Member of theHouse of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 9 October 1987 – 7 March 2008
Member of Parliament forSouth East Cambridgeshire
In office 9 June 1983 – 18 May 1987
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Jim Paice
Member of Parliament forCambridgeshire
In office 17 March 1961 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Gerald Howard
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished

Personal details

Born

Francis Leslie Pym
(1922-02-13)13 February 1922

Abergavenny, Wales

Died

7 March 2008(2008-03-07) (aged 86)

Sandy, Bedfordshire, England

Political party

Conservative

Spouse

Valerie Daglish

(m. 1949)

Children

Parent

Leslie Pym (father)

Education

Eton College

Alma mater

Magdalene College, Cambridge

Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym,MC, PC, DL (13 February 1922 – 7 March 2008) was a BritishConservative Party politician who served in variousCabinet positions in the 1970s and 1980s, includingForeign,Defence andNorthern Ireland Secretary, andLeader of the House of Commons. He wasMember of Parliament (MP) forCambridgeshire (South East Cambridgeshire after 1983) from 1961 to 1987. Pym was made alife peer in 1987.

Early life

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Pym was born atPenpergwm Lodge, nearAbergavenny inMonmouthshire.^[1] His father,Leslie Pym, was also an MP, while his grandfather, the Rt RevdWalter Pym, wasBishop of Bombay. He was not a direct descendant of the 17th-century parliamentarianJohn Pym as has been commonly held (see Pym's own published family history), but acollateral descendant.^[2]

He was educated atEton, before going on toMagdalene College, Cambridge. For much of the Second World War, Pym served inNorth Africa andItaly as acaptain andregimental adjutant in the9th Lancers. He wasmentioned in despatches twice, awarded theMilitary Cross,^[3] and ended his military service as amajor. Pym was a managing director and landowner before he went into politics.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

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Pym entered politics as a member ofHerefordshire County Council in 1958.^[4] He contestedRhondda West without success in 1959 and entered Parliament in 1961 ata by-election as MP forCambridgeshire. He held the seat until 1983, and thereafter was MP forSouth East Cambridgeshire until 1987. He was anopposition whip from 1964 and served underEdward Heath asGovernment Chief Whip (1970–1973), playing a critical role during the passage of the European Community Bill (1972), which ensured British entry into Europe. He subsequently joined the Heath Cabinet as Northern Ireland Secretary (1973–1974), and also served as a Cabinet minister in the first Thatcher Government asDefence Secretary (1979–1981),Leader of the House of Commons andLord President of the Council (1981–1982). He became foreign secretary during theFalklands War in 1982 followingLord Carrington's resignation, but was removed by Thatcher the following year after her second election victory.

Pym was a leading member of the "wets", Conservative MPs sceptical ofThatcherism. During the1983 general election campaign he said on the BBC'sQuestion Time that "Landslides don't on the whole produce successful governments".^[5] This was publicly repudiated by Thatcher and he was sacked after the election. Shortly afterwards, he launched apressure group called Conservative Centre Forward to argue for morecentrist,one-nation policies but with Thatcher at the height of her powers, it was unsuccessful. He stood down at the1987 election and was created alife peer asBaron Pym (ofSandy in theCounty of Bedfordshire) on 9 October 1987.^[6]

He was the author ofThe Politics of Consent, published in 1984 after he left the government. The book is a guide to the Wets' opposition to Thatcher's leadership style and politics.^{[citation needed]}

He was portrayed byJeremy Child in the 2002 BBC production ofIan Curteis'sThe Falklands Play, byJulian Wadham in the 2011 filmThe Iron Lady and byGuy Siner in thefourth series ofThe Crown.

Personal life

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Pym died in Sandy,Bedfordshire, on 7 March 2008 after a prolonged illness, aged 86.^[7]He was survived by his wife, Valerie (1929–2017),^[8] whom he married on 25 June 1949,^[9] and their four children.^[2]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Francis Pym
Crest Upon a mount Vert a hind's head erased Or gorged with a collar nebuly Azure and holding in the mouth a trefoil slipped Vert. Escutcheon Quarterly, 1st and 4th Sable on a fesse engrailed between three owls Or a trefoil slipped Vert between two cross crosslets of the first all within a bordure of the second (Pym); 2nd Vert on a cross engrailed Ermine a lion rampant reguardant Sable in the dexter canton a mullet Or (Kingsley); 3rd Sable three salmon haurient per pale Argent and Or (Orde). Supporters Dexter, rampant upon a sandy mount with tussocks of grass Proper a warhorse in trian aspect Sable mane tail and hooves Or on its head a chanfron and on the neck a crinet both Argent gorged with a double chain pendent therefrom a portcullis Gold; sinister, rampant upon a like mount a bull in trian aspect Sable armed and unguled Or also gorged with a double chain and pendent therefrom a portcullis Gold. Motto Ubi Seritur Ibi Floreat^[10]

References

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^Theakston 2004, p. 141.
^^a ^bRoth, Andrew (7 March 2008)."Obituary: Francis Pym".The Guardian. Retrieved3 December 2019.
^"No. 37386".The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 December 1945. p. 6074.
^"Francis Pym: Obituary".ThisIsAnnouncements. 7 March 2008. Archived fromthe original on 20 September 2011.
^"Thatcher's Class of '79". BBC News. Retrieved3 December 2019.
^"No. 51091".The London Gazette. 14 October 1987. p. 12695.
^"Former foreign secretary Pym dies". BBC News. 7 March 2008. Retrieved3 December 2019.
^"Valerie Fortune (Daglish) PYM".Legacy.com. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved3 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^Hurd, Douglas (5 January 2012). "Pym, Francis Leslie, Baron Pym (1922–2008), politician".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/100102. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)
^Burke's Peerage. 2000.^{[incomplete short citation]}

Bibliography

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Horn, Geoff (2025).The Battle for British Entry into the European Community: Whips and Anti-Marketeers. Springer Nature.ISBN 978-3-031-97106-8.
Pym, Francis (1984).The Politics of Consent. Hamish Hamilton.ISBN 978-0-241-11351-6.
Theakston, Kevin (2004).British Foreign Secretaries Since 1974. Routledge.ISBN 1-135-76637-1.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gerald Howard	Member of Parliament forCambridgeshire 1961–1983	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament forSouth East Cambridgeshire 1983–1987	Succeeded by Jim Paice
Government offices
Preceded by Bob Mellish	Chief Whip of the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1970–1973	Succeeded by Humphrey Atkins
Preceded by William Whitelaw	Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1973–1974	Succeeded by Merlyn Rees
Preceded by Fred Mulley	Secretary of State for Defence 1979–1981	Succeeded by John Nott
Preceded by Angus Maude	Paymaster General 1981	Succeeded by Cecil Parkinson
Preceded by Norman St John-Stevas	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1981	Succeeded by The Baroness Young
Preceded by Norman St John-Stevas	Leader of the House of Commons 1981–1982	Succeeded by John Biffen
Preceded by The Lord Soames	Lord President of the Council 1981–1982	Succeeded by John Biffen
Preceded by The Lord Carrington	Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1982–1983	Succeeded by Geoffrey Howe
Political offices
Preceded by Merlyn Rees	Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1974	Succeeded by Ian Gilmour
Preceded by Joseph Godber	Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1974–1975	Succeeded by Michael Jopling
Preceded by Michael Jopling	Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1976	Succeeded by John Peyton
Preceded by John Peyton	Shadow Leader of the House of Commons 1976–1978	Succeeded by Norman St John-Stevas
Preceded by John Davies	Shadow Foreign Secretary 1978–1979	Succeeded by Peter Shore
Party political offices
Preceded by Brian Batsford	Conservative Deputy Chief Whip in theHouse of Commons 1967–1970	Succeeded by Humphrey Atkins
Preceded by William Whitelaw	Conservative Chief Whip of theHouse of Commons 1970–1973	Succeeded by Humphrey Atkins

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