Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers

Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers, DBE (3 June 1907 – 23 May 1994) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Vickers was educated at St Monica's, Burgh Heath, Surrey, and in Paris. She served with the Red Cross in South East Asia and was area welfare officer of the Social Welfare Department in Malaya. She was later chairman of the Anglo-Indonesian Society. She served as a London County Councillor 1937–45 and was UK delegate to the Status of Women Commission of the United Nations.

Vickers unsuccessfully contested South Poplar at the 1945 general election and was elected Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport at the 1955 general election, defeating Michael Foot. She sat until the February 1974 general election when she was defeated by Labour's Dr David Owen.

She was created a life peer, as Baroness Vickers, of Devonport in the County of Devon on 27 January 1975.

Arms

Arms of Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers

Coronet A Coronet of a Baroness Escutcheon Azure on a Pile Argent a Boat in frame proper in base two Horses courant in fess Argent Supporters Dexter: a Welder habited in Overalls Vert wearing a Headpiece with central panel of Dark Glass, gloved and in the dexter hand an Electrode holder all proper; Sinister: a Female Red Cross Worker in uniform also proper Motto Victory through education

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Joan Vickers
• Obituary in The Independent

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Michael Foot	Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport 1955 – 1974	Succeeded by Dr David Owen