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During a distinguished career, Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington (1922-2018), was a Cambridge City Councillor for Trumpington Ward from 1963-73, County Councillor for Trumpington from 1973-75, and Mayor of Cambridge , 1971-72.

This report on her life is based on talks and comments by Edmund Brookes, Howard Slatter, Stephen Siddall and Adam Barker, at the meeting about Two Trumpington Mayors, September 2019.

Introduction
Edmund Brookes

Jean Barker (neé Campbell-Harris), Baroness Trumpington
Gange Tout Sans Atouts (Win all with no Trumps)
23 October 1922 – 26 November 2018

If you read Jean Barker’s autobiography, Coming up Trumps (Jean Trumpington, 2014), or her extensive Wikipedia entry, you get a flavour of her very full life.

I am not going to discuss her life in Cambridge but will book end it by covering her life before she arrived at the Leys School as the Headmaster’s wife and afterwards when she left when Alan Barker moved to be headmaster of University C