She then established Channel Foods Ltd in Cornwall, supplying fish to supermarkets and other major retail chains.

[2] Lady Wilcox has been a non-executive Director of the Automobile Association, Inland Revenue, Port of London Authority, Carpetright PLC, Johnson Services PLC, council member of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen (the Fishermen's Mission) and the Harris Academy.

Lady Wilcox is Vice-President of the Girl Guides Association,[1] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and until 2017 was Chairman of Trustees for the Community of St Mary the Virgin.

Her hobbies include sailing, bird watching, enjoying cinema and theatre,[1] as well as spending time with her grandchildren.

Lady Wilcox was first married in 1961 in Plymouth to Keith Davenport, with whom she had her only child, Simon (born 1963).

Upon this, she acquired the title of Baroness Wilcox, of Plymouth in the County of Devon[3] and the style of Right Honourable, in her own right.