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Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe of Kineton 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.[1] She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1984 Birthday Honours,[2] and was created a life peer on 14 February 1991, taking the title Baroness Seccombe, of Kineton in the County of Warwickshire.[3]
From 1997 to 2001, she was Opposition Whip and formerly the Opposition Spokesperson for Constitutional and Legal Affairs/Justice.