Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe

{{Short description|British politician}}

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| name = The Baroness Seccombe

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| office2 = Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal

| term_start2 = 14 February 1991
Life Peerage

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| birth_name = Joan Anna Dalziel Owen

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|3 May 1930}}

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| party = Conservative Party

| spouse = Henry Lawrence Seccombe (m. 1950)

| children = 2

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Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|sep=,|size=100%}} ({{nee}} 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.[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/henry-seccombe-obituary?id=40076738 Obituary: Henry Lawrence Seccombe], legacy.com. Accessed 4 January 2024. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1984 Birthday Honours,{{London Gazette |issue=49768 |date=16 June 1984 |page=7 |supp=y}} and was created a life peer on 14 February 1991, taking the title Baroness Seccombe, of Kineton in the County of Warwickshire.{{London Gazette |issue=52453 |date=19 February 1991 |page=2621}}

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