Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers, DBE (3 June 1907 – 23 May 1994) was a British National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician. She was the MP for Plymouth Devonport from 1955 to 1974.
Early life
Vickers was born in London on 3 June 1907, the eldest daughter of (Horace) Cecil Vickers (1882–1944), a stockbroker, and his wife, Lilian Munro Lambert Grose (1880–1923), a social worker, only daughter of Woodman Cole Grose, MBE, a civil servant. Her father's family came originally from Lincolnshire and her mother's from Cornwall.
Her father joined Nelke, Phillips & Bendix, a London stockbroking firm who counted Edward VII as one of their clients. He was elected to the Stock Exchange on 25 March 1904 and became one of their partners at their office at 4 Moorgate Street. In 1917, he set up his own firm, Vickers, da Costa, which counted Sir Winston Churchill among their clients. Her brother, Ralph Vickers was later Senior Partner of the firm.
Vickers was educated at St Monica's, Burgh Heath, Surrey, She was instrumental in the passage of the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983 in the House of Lords. is named after her. Native to Indonesia, it was named as a tribute to her work in the country.