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18 de fev. de 2007 · Francis Pym’s cubist sculptural tour de force, completed in 1971, is internationally renowned for its daring and prescient splicing together of old and new and for what the architectural historian David Evans calls the “almost barbaric power of its great cubic projections and cantilevers, brooding over the conifers of the Botanic Gardens like a mastodon.”
7 de mar. de 2008 · Francis Pym was a Tory squire of the old "one nation" school who managed to rise to high office as Margaret Thatcher's foreign secretary despite being precisely the kind of Conservative her ...
Abstract. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 cover the Secretaries of State for Defence from 1979 to 1986 under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The first Secretary of State, Francis Pym, did not share Thatcher’s belief in strict cash controls on government spending with the same enthusiasm as his successors at defence, John Nott and Michael Heseltine.
7 de mar. de 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. He saw war service in Africa and Italy and was awarded the Military ...
Francis Pym, Baron Pym, (1922-2008) was a British political figure who served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1982-83) in the government of Margaret Thatcher. A member of the Conservative Party, Pym acted in other Cabinet posts including Defence Secretary (1979-81), Northern Ireland Secretary (1974) and Leader of the House of Commons (1981-82).
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Francis Pym died on 7th March 2008. He was most recently the Conservative MP for South East Cambridgeshire, and left the Commons on 11 June 1987.
