Douglas Vickers

Vickers as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, December 1909

Douglas Vickers (1861 1937) was an English industrialist and politician. He was the son of Colonel Thomas Edward Vickers (1833–1915), owner and Director of the famous Sheffield firm Vickers, Sons & Co. Ltd., and Frances Mary Vickers, née Douglas (1841–1904). He became Director of the family business in 1897, and was Master Cutler of Sheffield in 1908. He was elected as MP for Sheffield Hallam in 1918, and held the seat until 1922.

He was married to Katherine Chetwynd, with whom he had four children: Oliver (1898–1928), Felicite (1901- died soon after), Sholto (b. 1902), and Angus (b. 1904).

His father, Thomas Edward Vickers, commissioned John Singer Sargent to paint portraits of the family. Douglas' portrait was painted in 1914.

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    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
    Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam
    19181922
    Succeeded by
    Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes


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