Piers Dixon | |
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| Member of Parliament forTruro | |
| In office 18 June 1970 – 20 September 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Wilson |
| Succeeded by | David Penhaligon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pierson John Shirley Dixon (1928-12-29)29 December 1928 |
| Died | 24 March 2017(2017-03-24) (aged 88) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
Pierson John Shirley Dixon (29 December 1928 – 24 March 2017), known asPiers Dixon, was a BritishConservative Party politician who representedTruro between 1970 and 1974.[1]
The son of diplomat and writer, SirPierson Dixon, he was educated atEton College;Magdalene College, Cambridge; andHarvard Business School. He worked as a stockbroker.[citation needed]
Dixon contestedBrixton at the1966 general election[2] and was elected Member of Parliament (MP) forTruro in1970.[3] He was re-elected inFebruary 1974,[4] but lost the seat to the LiberalDavid Penhaligon in theOctober 1974 general election, by 464 votes (0.8%).[citation needed]
No Conservative MP represented Truro after Dixon's defeat untilSarah Newton regained the seat from the Liberal Democrats in 2010.Alan Clark noted Dixon in his 1983–92 diaries, writing "when (the Liberals) get stuck in, really stuck in, they are devilish hard to dislodge".[5]
Dixon was a member of theMonday Club[6] and theBow Group.[7]
Dixon married four times. His first wife was the sculptorEdwina Sandys, a daughter ofDuncan Sandys andDiana Churchill. They had two sons, Mark andHugo. The second was Janet,Countess of Cowley.[8] In 1984, Dixon married Anne Cronin, daughter ofJohn Desmond Cronin, former Labour MP; they had one son, Alexander. In 1994, he married Ann Mavroleon, daughter of John Davenport.[9]
He died in March 2017 at the age of 88.[10]
Footnote 4: In 1973 Bob Dixon's son, Piers Dixon (then MP for Truro), was instrumental in getting the secret files on Yalta released by the Public Record Office...
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forTruro 1970 –October 1974 | Succeeded by |
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