Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe

The Right Honourable The Baroness Seccombe DBE
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 February 1991 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	Joan Anna Dalziel Owen 3 May 1930 (1930-05-03) (age 94)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Henry Lawrence Seccombe (m. 1950)
Children	2

Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe DBE (née Owen; born 3 May 1930) is a British Conservative Party politician.

The daughter of Robert John Owen and Olive Barlow, she married Henry Lawrence Seccombe, son of Herbert Stanley Seccombe, in 1950. The couple had two sons. Henry Lawrence Seccombe died on 29 June 2008. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1984 Birthday Honours, and was created a life peer on 14 February 1991, taking the title Baroness Seccombe, of Kineton in the County of Warwickshire.

From 1997 to 2001, she was Opposition Whip and formerly the Opposition Spokesperson for Constitutional and Legal Affairs/Justice.

Arms

Coat of arms of Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe

Adopted 2008 Escutcheon Per pale Gules and Vert, a Chevron Ermine, between three Bugle Horns Argent, stringed Or, on a Chief per pale Vert and Gules, three Roses Argent, barbed Or, on each another Rose Gules, barbed and seeded proper. Supporters Dexter: a Dragon Gules, armed and langued Vert, dimidiating a Lion Vert, armed Gules, gorged with a Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back Or. Sinister: a Dragon Vert, armed and langued Gules, dimidiating a Lion Gules,armed Vert, gorged with a Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back Or. Motto PERSEVERANTIA (Perseverance)

External links

• Media related to Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe at Wikimedia Commons
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• "The Papers of Enoch Powell"
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• Reference to Seccombe in The Independent