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Dame (Irene) Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike DBE ( 16 September 1918 – 11 January 2004 ) was a British Conservative politician. Pike was educated at Hunmanby Hall , East Yorkshire and 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. Pike contested Pontefract in 1951 and Leek in 1955 without success. She was elected Member Of Parliament for Melton at a By-election in December 1956. She held several positions including Assistant Postmaster-General from 1959-63, joint under-secretary at the Home Office from 1963-64 and Chair of the WRVS from 1974-81 and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission from 1981-85. Pike was created a Life Peer in 1974 as Baroness Pike, of Melton, Co. Leicester and knighted in 1981. She died in 2004, unmarried, aged 85, from natural causes. EXTERNAL LINK |
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