12 Facts About Jeanie Dicks

Jeanie Dicks led the permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral in 1934.

Jeanie Dicks was a member of the Electrical Contractors Association, one of the first women to join, and President of the Winchester Chamber of Commerce.

Jeanie Dicks was baptised at St Maurice's Church on 17 January 1894, alongside her older brother Philip John.

In 1926, after the sudden death of her father Philip, Jeanie Dicks took over the family firm, which was by now known as Messrs.

Jeanie Dicks was noted as having a staff of 75 and Dicks was said to manage "not only the electrical contracting side, but the water engineering, radio and plumbing departments".

Two years prior to this contract, during work to lay central heating pipes in the nave of the cathedral, Jeanie Dicks had prepared the ground by installing electrical cables.

Jeanie Dicks joined the Women's Engineering Society in 1925, when she was described as "an expert on wireless", who had been elected by the Lyceum Club Radio Circle as their representative at meetings of the Radio Society of Great Britain.

In 1928, Jeanie Dicks was a founder member of the Hampshire branch of the Electrical Association for Women, acting as its Honourary Secretary.

Jeanie Dicks was a member of the Electrical Contractors Association in 1929, and described as "England's only woman member" of the association in 1934, presumably making her one of the first women to join.

Jeanie Dicks entered into a Company Voluntary Arrangement in October 2018.

The 1939 England and Wales Register taken on 29 September, records that Jeanie Dicks lived in Flat 3, Lansdown House, Winchester, with her husband Ian, and Alice Rance, their housekeeper.

Jeanie Dicks died on 6 July 1980 and was commemorated by the Hampshire Chronicle as "one of the City's leading business women over a period of 40 years".