- Mervyn Pike
Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, commonly known as Mervyn Pike, DBE (
16 September 1918 –11 January 2004 ) was a British Conservative politician.Pike was educated at
Hunmanby Hall ,East Yorkshire andReading University and served with theWomen's Auxiliary Air Force duringWorld War II . She was managing director of a firm of pottery manufacturers.Pike contested Pontefract in 1951 and Leek in 1955 without success. She was elected
Member of Parliament for Melton at aby-election in December 1956.She held several positions including
Assistant Postmaster-General from 1959-63, jointUnder-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1963-64 and Chair of theWRVS from 1974-81 and theBroadcasting Complaints Commission from 1981-85.Pike was created a
life peer in 1974 as Baroness Pike, of Melton in the County ofLeicestershire and knighted in 1981. She died in 2004, unmarried, aged 85, from natural causes.External links
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4837443-107980,00.html Baroness Pike's obituary in "The Guardian"]
* [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/minutes/040113/ldminute.htm Announcement of her death at the House of Lords] House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 13 January 2004
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