Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers

Who was Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers?

Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers, DBE was a British National Liberal and 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.