Pierson John Shirley Dixon (29 December 1928 – 24 March 2017), known as Piers Dixon, was a British Conservative Party politician who represented Truro between 1970 and 1974.
Early life
The son of diplomat and writer, Sir
Pierson Dixon, he was educated at
Eton College; Magdalene College, Cambridge; and Harvard Business School. He worked as a stockbroker.
Career
Dixon contested Brixton at the 1966 general election
and was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro in 1970.
He was re-elected in February 1974,
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 1983–92 diaries, writing "when (the Liberals) get stuck in, really stuck in, they are devilish hard to dislodge".
Interests
Dixon was a member of the
Monday Club and the
Bow Group.
Personal life
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 Dixon. The second was Janet, Countess of Cowley.
In 1984, Dixon married Anne Cronin, daughter of John Desmond Cronin, former Labour MP; they had one son, Alexander. In 1994, he married Ann Mavroleon, daughter of John Davenport.
Death
He died in March 2017 at the age of 88.
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