Piers Dixon

Piers John Shirley Dixon (29 December 1928 – 24 March 2017) was a British Conservative Party politician who represented Truro between 1970 and 1974.[1]

The son of diplomat and writer Pierson Dixon, he was educated at Eton College; Magdalene College, Cambridge; and Harvard Business School. He worked as a stockbroker.

Dixon contested Brixton at the 1966 general election[2] and was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro in 1970. He was re-elected in February 1974,[3] but lost the seat to the Liberal David Penhaligon in the October 1974 general election, by 464 votes (0.8%). No Conservative MP represented Truro after Dixon's defeat until Sarah Newton regained the seat from the Liberal Democrats in 2010. Alan Clark noted Dixon in his 1983–1992 diaries, writing "when (the Liberals) get stuck in, really stuck in, they are devilish hard to dislodge".[4]

Dixon married four times. His first wife was the sculptor Edwina Sandys, a daughter of Duncan Sandys and Diana Churchill. They had two sons, Mark and Hugo. The second was Janet, Countess of Cowley.[5] In 1984, Dixon married Anne Olivia Cronin, daughter of John Desmond Cronin, former Labour MP; they had one son, Piers Alexander Jago. In 1994, he married Ann Mavroleon, daughter of John Davenport.[6]

Dixon was a member of the Monday Club[7] and the Bow Group. He died in March 2017 at the age of 88.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden First Earl of Avon, 1897–1977" Thorpe,D.R. p38: London, Chatto & Windus, 2013
  2. ↑ Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and October 1974
  3. ↑ Parliament UK
  4. ↑ Clark, Alan, Diaries 1983–1992
  5. ↑ "The Time of My Life: Triumph and tragedy at London weekend television" McNally, P p58: Cirencester, Memoirs Publishing, 2013 ISBN 9781909544352
  6. ↑ DIXON, Piers', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 25 March 2017
  7. ↑ Copping, Robert, The Story of The Monday Club – The First Decade, Current Affairs Information Unit, London, April 1972: 21/28
  8. ↑ "Well connected Conservative MP for Truro who was one of the last visitors to Churchill's death bed" (Obituaries p33) Daily Telegraph Issue no 50,388 dated Saturday 25 March 2017
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Geoffrey Wilson		 Member of Parliament for Truro
1970 – October 1974 		Succeeded by
David Penhaligon


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