| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Baroness Pike | |
| Office: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs |
| Term Start: | 1 March 1963 |
| Term End: | 16 October 1964 |
| Predecessor: | Charles Fletcher-Cooke |
| Successor: | George Thomas |
| Office1: | Assistant Postmaster-General |
| Primeminister1: | Harold Macmillan |
| Term Start1: | 22 October 1959 |
| Term End1: | 1 March 1963 |
| Predecessor1: | Kenneth Thompson |
| Successor1: | Ray Mawby |
| Office2: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start2: | 15 May 1974 |
| Term End2: | 11 January 2004 Life peerage |
| Parliament3: | United Kingdom |
| Constituency Mp3: | Melton |
| Term Start3: | 19 December 1956 |
| Term End3: | 8 February 1974 |
| Predecessor3: | Anthony Nutting |
| Successor3: | Michael Latham |
| Birth Name: | Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike |
| Birth Date: | 16 September 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Castleford, Yorkshire, England |
| Death Place: | Kelso, Scottish Borders |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Alma Mater: | University of Reading |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Unit: | Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, (16 September 1918 – 11 January 2004) was a British Conservative politician. The name by which she came to be known, Mervyn, had been the name of her father's best friend, who was to have been her godfather; when he was killed in action, a few days before she was born, her father decided that the baby would take his name.[1]
Born in Castleford, Yorkshire, into a family of Castleford pottery manufacturers, Pike was educated at Hunmanby Hall (East Riding of Yorkshire) and at Reading University and served with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. She was managing director of a firm of pottery manufacturers.[1]
Pike contested Pontefract in 1951 and Leek in 1955 without success. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Melton at a by-election in December 1956. She held several positions including Assistant Postmaster-General from 1959 to 1963, joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1963 to 1964 and Chair of the WRVS from 1974 to 1981 and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission from 1981 to 1985.
Pike was created a life peer on 15 May 1974 as Baroness Pike, of Melton in Leicestershire, and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1981 Birthday Honours.
| Escutcheon: | Or on a cross Gules a churchwarden's staff headed of a mitre Or on a chief Sable a castleford fine stoneware teapot Proper. |
| Supporters: | On either side a fox that on the dexter gorged with a wreath of ivy and that on the sinister with a wreath of rosemary Proper and each resting the interior hind foot on a portcullis Or. |
| Compartment: | A grassy mount Proper. |
| Motto: | Faithful Endeavour |
| Orders: | Order of the British Empire[2] |
She died in 2004, unmarried, at a nursing home in Kelso, Scottish Borders, aged 85, from pneumonia following a stroke.