Mervyn Pike

Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	In office; 15 May 1974 – 11 January 2004; Life peerage
Member of Parliament; for Melton
	In office; 19 December 1956 – 8 February 1974
Preceded by	Anthony Nutting
Succeeded by	Michael Latham
Personal details
Born	Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike; 16 September 1918; Castleford, Yorkshire, England
Died	11 January 2004 (aged 85); Kelso, Scottish Borders
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	University of Reading
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	Royal Air Force
Unit	Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike,

DBE (16 September 1918 – 11 January 2004) was a British Conservative politician. The name by which she came to be known, Mervyn, had been the name of her father's best friend, who was to have been her godfather; when he was killed in action, a few days before she was born, her father decided that the baby would take his name.^[1]

Early life

Born in

Reading University and served with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. She was managing director of a firm of pottery manufacturers.^[1]

Career

Pike contested

WRVS from 1974 to 1981 and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission

from 1981 to 1985.

Awards

Pike was created a

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1981 Birthday Honours.^[4]

Coat of arms of Mervyn Pike
	Escutcheon Or on a cross Gules a churchwarden's staff headed of a mitre Or on a chief Sable a castleford fine stoneware teapot Proper. Supporters On either side a fox that on the dexter gorged with a wreath of ivy and that on the sinister with a wreath of rosemary Proper and each resting the interior hind foot on a portcullis Or. Compartment A grassy mount Proper. Motto Faithful Endeavour Orders Order of the British Empire^[5]

Death

She died in 2004, unmarried, at a nursing home in Kelso, Scottish Borders, aged 85, from pneumonia following a stroke.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Roth, Andrew (16 January 2004). "Obituary: Baroness Pike of Melton". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
^
doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93152. (Subscription or UK public library membership
required.)

^ "No. 46292". The London Gazette. 17 May 1974. p. 6033.
^ "No. 48639". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1981. p. 8.
^ Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. 2000.

External links

Announcement of Pike's death in the House of Lords – minutes of proceedings, 13 January 2004

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Anthony Nutting	Member of Parliament for Melton 1956 – February 1974	Succeeded by Michael Latham

[guardianobit-1] Roth, Andrew (16 January 2004). "Obituary: Baroness Pike of Melton". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2015.

[ODNB-2] 
doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93152. (Subscription or UK public library membership
required.)

[3] "No. 46292". The London Gazette. 17 May 1974. p. 6033.

[4] "No. 48639". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1981. p. 8.

[5] Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. 2000.

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