Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike
Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, of Melton in the County of Leicestershire DBE ( born September 16, 1918 † 11 January 2004) was a British politician of the Conservative Party, which for 17 years Member of the House of Commons was in 1974 as Life Peeress due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Studies, career and member of Parliament,
Mervyn Pike graduated after attending the Hunmanby Hall in Yorkshire a degree in economics and social psychology at the University of Reading, graduating in 1941 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). After they occurred during the Second World War in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ( WAAF ), which Relief troops of the Royal Air Force ( RAF), and served in it until 1946. Afterwards she was managing director of Clokie & Company, one of her family belonging pottery, and ran this company until 1959.
In the general election on 25 October 1951, she stood as a candidate in the constituency of Pontefract as unsuccessful for a parliamentary seat in the House of Commons as the general election on 26 May 1955 at the constituency Leek. After the mandate waiver by Anthony Nutting Mervyn Pike was first elected as an MP in the House of Commons on 19 December 1956 as the candidate of the Conservative Party in a by -election ( By-election ) in the constituency Melton and represented that constituency more than 17 years until the general election on 28 February 1974.
Junior Minister and opposition leader
1957 Mervyn Pike Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Renton, the first Secretary of Energy (Minister of Power ) and then Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State at the Home Office (Home Office ) was. Then she was appointed in 1959 by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in place of Kenneth Thompson Deputy General postmistress ( Assistant Postmaster - General ) and was in this capacity until it was replaced by Ray Mawby in March 1963 close collaborator of Postmaster General Reginald Bevins and the only woman in this function. In 1960, she was next to Patricia Hornsby -Smith and Edith Pitt to the three single woman in the enlarged government Macmillan.
In March 1963, she was then Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office (Joint Parliamentary Under- Secretary for the Home Office) and until October 1964, together with the also acting in this capacity Christopher Montague Woodhouse one of the closest advisers of Interior Minister ( Home Secretary ) Henry Brooke.
After the loss of power of the conservative Tories in the general election of October 15, 1964 Mervyn Pike moved into the private sector and became director of the Tonbergbauunternehmens Watts, Blake & Bearne. At the same time the opposition spokesperson for health and social security, and thus a member of the shadow cabinet of their party was
When the Conservative Party had won the general election of June 18, 1970, with Edward Heath asked the Prime Minister, was surprisingly not reappointed to the Cabinet Mervyn Pike of this.
House of Lords member and other commitment
After leaving the House of Mervyn Pike was raised by a Letters Patent dated 15 May 1974 as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Pike, of Melton in the County of Leicestershire in the peerage and was until her death nearly thirty years, the House of Lords than at Member. Then she was 1974-1981 Chairman of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, a volunteer organization to support vulnerable people in England, Scotland and Wales. Prerequisite for carrying out this role, to which she was nominated in July 1973 by the then Home Secretary Robert Carr, was the renunciation of the mandate in the House.
When it came the mid-1970s in the Parliament of the United Kingdom to a debate on an extension of the family allowance and child allowance system in favor of poorer groups of the population with a uniform payment system, Baroness Pike stepped in front of a simple form of a negative income tax. After that, parents who do not earn enough to make their child tax credit claims, obtain the value of the allowance in cash.
Following Baroness Pike was, which was also nominated in 1981 for Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE ), 1981-1985 Chair of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission ( Broadcasting Complaints Commission ). Previously she was Chair of its predecessor organization, the Advisory Committee of the Independent Broadcasting Administration ( Independent Broadcasting Authority ).