JOAN "BARONESS VICKERS" VICKERS - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/12/1969 - HFSID 80396
Price: $120.00
JOAN VICKERS
The British Conservative politician signs this typed letter in which she informs an
admirer that she was granting him with her autograph and a copy of the Status of Women
Committee brochure, signed in blue ink
Typed Letter Signed: "Joan Vickers" in blue ink. One page. 6x8¼. No place. Date: June 12,
1969. Written on House of Commons letterhead. Addressed to: Victor W. Croxford. In full:
"Dear Mr. Croxford, I will be sending you my autograph with a copy of the small brochure dealing
with the Status of Women Committee". Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers (1907-1994)
was a British Conservative Party politician. She served with the Red Cross in South East
Asia and was area welfare officer of the Social Welfare Department in Malaya. Afterwards,
Joan was chairman of the Anglo-Indonesian Society and served as a London County
Councilor (1937-1945), and was United Kingdom delegate to the Status of Women
Commission of the United Nations. She 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 remained there until the February 1974 general
election, when she was defeated by Labour's Dr. David Owen. Vickers was created a life
peer, as Baroness Vickers, of Devonport in the County of Devon on January 27, 1975.
Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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