Background
The son of the Right Reverend Walter Ruthven Pym, Bishop of Bombay, Pym was educated at Bedford School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
The son of the Right Reverend Walter Ruthven Pym, Bishop of Bombay, Pym was educated at Bedford School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Magdalene College; Bedford School.
He represented the constituency in the House of Commons until his death during the 1945 general election. Polling took place on 5 July 1945. Pym died 12 days later, but nine days before the declaration of the result.
He was declared posthumously elected on 26 July 1945, provoking a by-election in his Monmouth constituency.
In the war-time coalition government, he was a government whip. Pym was a descendant of the 17th century Parliamentarian John Pym.
37th United Kingdom Parliament. 38th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Monmouth in Wales at a by-election in 1939.