Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers

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Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers , DBE (born June 3, 1907 in London , † May 23, 1994 in East Chisenbury , Wiltshire ) was a British politician of the National Liberal Party and the Conservative Party . Since 1975 she was a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords .

Life

Vickers was born to Horace Cecil Vickers and his wife Lillian Morro Lambert Grose. She attended St Monica's College in Burgh Heath in the county of Surrey ; For a short time she also went to school in Paris .

Vickers' political career began in local politics . She was from 1937 to 1945 for the borough Norwood Division of Lambeth a member of the London County Council . Towards the end of World War II, she was stationed for the Dutch Red Cross in Southeast Asia . In the British general election in 1945 , she ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party for the constituency of South Poplar . From 1946 to 1950 she worked as a social worker and teacher in colonial service . She served as an Area Welfare Officer with the Social Welfare Department in British Malaysia .

In the British general election in 1955 she was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Plymouth Davenport ; they defeated the candidate of the choice Labor Party , Michael Foot . Her political priorities included social policy and welfare policy . In the lower house she voted for the abolition of the death penalty . In the House of Commons, she also spoke on defense policy . She was the only woman in the House of Commons who regularly spoke on defense issues. Her specialty was in particular the British Royal Navy . She gave her inaugural address in the House of Commons in November 1955 as part of the debate on the Housing Subsidies Bill .

In 1956, she took over Edith Summerskill 's draft law on the Maintenance Orders (Attachment of Income) Bill and introduced it to Parliament as a Private Member Bill . The law stipulated that statutory maintenance payments would be paid directly from the husband's income; However, the law failed in 1957 due to opposition from members of parliament who were lawyers . The government took up the bill itself, however, and Vickers successfully led the 1958 bill through the stages of the legislative process. In 1963 she and Judith Hart successfully voted against the Employment of Women Bill . In 1964 she successfully brought in her second Private Member Bill, the Young Persons (Employment) Bill ; its aim was to improve the working conditions of young people. In 1973, along with Barbara Castle and Shirley Summerskill, she opposed government attempts to replace maternal benefits with a tax deduction on father's income tax .

In the British general election in February 1974, Vickers was defeated by the Labor Party candidate, David Owen , and left the House of Commons in late February 1974. In the British general election in October 1974 Vickers came again, but unsuccessfully, for the constituency of Plymouth Davenport; her previous constituency had previously been abolished by the Boundary Commission , which was responsible for dividing the constituency and determining the constituency boundaries.

Vickers was also active in international politics. She was from 1960 to 1964 the United Kingdom Delegate ( UK Delegate ) to the Status of Women Commission of the United Nations . In 1962, she was president ( President ) of the Status of Women Committee. From 1967 to 1974 she was a UK delegate to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU).

She was also chairman ( chairman ) of the European-China Association and the Anglo- Indonesian Society. She was further chairman ( chairman ) of the National Center for Cued Speech for the Deaf, and the founder and President ( founder-president ) of the Institute of Qualified Private Secretaries.

Vickers was unmarried.

Membership in the House of Lords

On January 27, 1975, Vickers was made a Life Peeress and became a member of the House of Lords ; she was named Baroness Vickers , of Devonport in the County of Devon . In the House of Lords she sat for the Conservative Party.

Awards

Vickers was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1946; this honored her work with prisoners of war during their deployment with the Red Cross in Southeast Asia. In 1964 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Baroness Vickers ; Obituary in: The Independent, May 25, 1994
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Cheryl Law: Woman, A Modern Political Dictionary , 2000, p. 151, ISBN 1-86064-502-X
  3. ↑ a b c d e Joan Vickers (Baroness Vickers) ; Curriculum vitae (official website of the Center for Advancement of Women in Politics ); Retrieved November 12, 2013
  4. ↑ HOUSING BILL Subsidies text of the speech of November 17, 1955
  5. ↑ Dame Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Vickers, Joan, Baroness Vickers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vickers, Joan Helen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (National Liberal Party, Conservative Party), member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1994
Place of death East Chisenbury , Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom