Background
Pym, Baron Francis Leslie was born on February 13, 1922 in Abergavenny, Wales. Son of Leslie Ruthven and Iris Rosalind (Orde) Pym.
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The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. Oakley's ground-breaking study probes the continuities and discontinuities between medieval and early modern modes of political thinking and dwells at length on the roots and nature of those contract theories that sought to legitimate political authority by grounding it in the consent of the governed.
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Pym, Baron Francis Leslie was born on February 13, 1922 in Abergavenny, Wales. Son of Leslie Ruthven and Iris Rosalind (Orde) Pym.
Attending, Cambridge University, England.
Served with 9th Queen's Royal Lancers (North African and Italian campaigns) 1942-1946. Fellow, Magdalene College. Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1961-83.
For Cambridgeshire S.E. 1983-1987. Opposition Deputy Chief Whip 1967-1970, Government Chief Whip and Pari. Secretary to Treasury 1970-1973.
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1973-1974. Opposition Spokesman for Agriculture 1974-1976, for House of Commons Affairs and Devolution 1976-1978, for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1978-1979. Secretary of State for Defence 1979-1981.
Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, Paymaster-General and Leader of the House of Commons January-September 1981. Lord President, of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons 1981-1982. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1982-1983.
President Cambridge University Conservative Association 1982-1987, Atlantic Treaty Association 1985-1988. Chairman English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth since 1987.
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Author: The Politics of Consent, 1984.
Liverpool University Council 1949-1953, Herefordshire County Council 1958-1961.
Gardens.
Married Valerie Fortune Daglish, 1949. 4 children.