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Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, MC, PC, DL (13 February 1922 – 7 March 2008) 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.
Mar 8, 2008 · LONDON Francis Pym, Britain’s foreign secretary under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1982 Falklands War only to be fired a year later, died on Friday after a long illness. He was 86.
Mar 8, 2008 · Francis Pym, Thatcher's enemy within, dies aged 86. Andy McSmith. Saturday 08 March 2008 01:00 GMT. Comments. Lord Pym, who served as Foreign Secretary during the Falklands War and fell out...
Parliamentarians from across the political divide have paid tribute to the former Tory Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, who died early today after a long illness. Lord Pym served as Chief Whip and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland under Ted Heath and then Defence Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons under Margaret Thatcher.
Mar 8, 2008 · John Pym (1584-1643) had courageously upheld the rights of Parliament against Charles I and was arrested for his pains. Francis Pym's forebears included lawyers, bishops and MPs.
The British statesman Francis Pym (born 1922) was foreign secretary during the Falkland Islands War of 1982. Francis Leslie Pym was born on February 13, 1922, in Abergavenny, Monmouth County, Wales, into a family that had provided political leaders to Britain for centuries.
Francis Leslie Pym. (1922—2008) Quick Reference. (b. Abergavenny, 13 Feb. 1922; d. Everton Park, Sandy, Bedfordshire, 7 March 2008) British; Defence Secretary 1979–81, Foreign Secretary 1982–3; Baron (life peer) 1987 The son of a Conservative MP, Pym was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, 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.
Mar 7, 2008 · Lord Francis Pym, who has died at the age of 86, was a traditional "one nation" Tory whose family had been in politics for many generations. He became an MP after success as a wartime officer and...
Apr 12, 2012 · Francis Pym, foreign secretary during the Falklands War, died yesterday at the age of 86. He lost his fight against a long illness in the early hours, his family said.
