• Pierson John Shirley Dixon (29 December 1928 – 24 March 2017), known as Piers Dixon, was a British Conservative Party politician who represented Truro...
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  • Duncan Dixon was born in December 1963 to the Conservative MP Piers Dixon and the artist Edwina Sandys. The couple divorced in 1970 when Dixon was six...
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  • She married Piers Dixon in 1960 and they were divorced in 1970. They have two sons, Mark Pierson Dixon (b. 1962) and Hugo Duncan Dixon (b. 1963). She...
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    married Piers Dixon in 1960 and divorced in 1973. They had two sons. She married Richard D. Kaplan in 1985. Mark Pierson Dixon (b. 1962) Hugo Duncan Dixon (b...
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  • Australian economist Piers Dixon (1928–2017), British politician Rap Dixon, American baseball player Reg Dixon, Canadian sailor Reg Dixon (comedian), English...
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    Sandys) 22 December 1938 Married, 1960, Piers Dixon; divorced 1973 1. Mark Pierson Dixon b. 1962 2. Hugo Duncan Dixon b. 1963. Married, 1985, Richard D. Kaplan;...
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  • Parliament for Truro In office 10 October 1974 – 22 December 1986 Preceded by Piers Dixon Succeeded by Matthew Taylor Personal details Born (1944-06-06)6 June...
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    Michael Noble Labour James Hill Southampton Test 1970 Bryan Gould Labour Piers Dixon Truro 1970 David Penhaligon Liberal Robert Lindsay Welwyn and Hatfield...
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  • driver Piers Crosby (1590–1646), Irish soldier Piers Dixon (1928–2017), British Conservative politician Piers Dutton (died 1545), the lord Pier Gerlofs...
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  • (Gravesend) Peter Rost (South East Derbyshire) Norman Tebbit (Epping) Piers Dixon (Truro) David James (North Dorset) John Heydon Stokes (Oldbury and Halesowen)...
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    (1909 — 1963), (m. 2nd) Duncan Sandys Edwina Sandys (1938), m. Piers Dixon Hugo Dixon (1963) Randolph Churchill (1911 — 1968), (m. 1st) Pamela Digby,...
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    Conservative candidates Kenneth Payne in the 1964 general election and Piers Dixon in the 1966 general election. Another formative influence on Major in...
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  • between 1960 and 1964. Dixon married Alexandra Ismene Atchley in 1928 in Chelsea; they had a son and two daughters. Their son, Piers, was a Conservative...
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    interview: Piers Sellers – 2002 STS-121 Preflight Interview: Piers Sellers – 2006, discusses the Return to Flight programme Spacefacts Biography of Piers Sellers...
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    Alesha Anjanette Dixon (born 7 October 1978) is an English singer, rapper, dancer, television personality, and author. She rose to prominence in the early...
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    Mikardo Labour Tower Hamlets, Stepney and Poplar Peter Shore Labour Truro Piers Dixon Conservative Tynemouth Neville Trotter Conservative Ulster, Mid John...
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    O'Kane), Countess Jellicoe (1917–2012)". National Portrait Gallery. Piers Dixon in Philip Ziegler & Desmond Seward (eds): Brooks's: A Social History...
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    Election Member Party 1950 Geoffrey Wilson Conservative 1970 Piers Dixon Conservative Oct 1974 David Penhaligon Liberal 1987 by-election Matthew Taylor...
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  • attack. Ronnie Moran, 83, football player and coach (Liverpool). 24 March Piers Dixon, 88, politician, MP for Truro (1970–1974). Peter Shotton, 75, washboardist...
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    Totnes Ray Mawby Conservative Tottenham Norman Atkinson Labour Truro Piers Dixon Conservative Twickenham Toby Jessel Conservative Tynemouth Dame Irene...
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  • Ghanaian football coach. Bartolo Alvarez, 102, Puerto Rican musician. Piers Dixon, 88, British politician, MP for Truro (1970–1974). John Doull, 94, American...
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  • mills in Oldham. In his early mills Dixon used yellow brick to decorate the facades. His later mills used pronounced piers or buttresses between the windows...
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  • marriage Piers Dixon, Member of Parliament; married to Edwina Sandys, daughter of Duncan John Cronin, Member of Parliament; father-in-law of Piers by subsequent...
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  • Buckinghamshire (1847–1876) Coningsby Disraeli; MP for Altrincham (1892–1906) Piers Dixon; MP for Truro (1970–1974) Jonathan Djanogly; MP for Huntingdon (2001–2024)...
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  • Parliament of the United Kingdom New constituency Member of Parliament for Truro 1950 – 1970 Succeeded by Piers Dixon...
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  • singer (died 1996) 29 December Bernard Cribbins, comic actor (died 2022) Piers Dixon, Conservative politician (died 2017) 11 January – Thomas Hardy, novelist...
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  • and former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader. 24 March – Piers Dixon, 88, politician, MP for Truro (1970–1974). 28 March – Gwilym Prys Davies...
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    Dixon Bridge Disaster, also known as the Truesdell Bridge Disaster, occurred on Sunday, May 4, 1873, when the bridge across the Rock River at Dixon,...
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    Scotland's farms 1750–2000, Miles Glendinning and Susanna Martins, ed Piers Dixon; RCAHMS 2008). Surrounding enclosures including garden grounds form a...
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    Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Marcus Lipton 16,634 61.3 +3.2 Conservative Piers Dixon 10,500 38.7 −3.2 Majority 6,134 22.6 +6.4 Turnout 47,615 57.0 0.0 Labour...
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