Norah, Lady Docker

Norah Docker, Lady Docker (1906–1983) was an English socialite. A dance hostess at a club in her youth, she married three times, on each occasion to an executive of a business that sold luxury goods. Her third marriage, to Sir Bernard Docker, the chairman of Birmingham Small Arms and its subsidiary, Daimler Company, was notable for the couple's excessive behaviour. This was often funded by tax writeoffs and company expenditure that could not be legitimately defended, which led to Sir Bernard's removal from BSA's board of directors. She was also banned from the French Riviera by Prince Rainier after an incident in which she tore up a Monegasque flag.

Lady Docker was born in Derby in 1906 as Norah Royce Turner to Sydney Turner and his wife Amy. The Turners moved to Birmingham where her father bought into a car dealership. Her father committed suicide when she was 16, after which she had to earn her own living. As a young woman she became a dance hostess at London's Café de Paris. Her male friends included the 9th Duke of Marlborough and, for many years, Clement Callingham, head of Henekeys wine and spirit merchants. She had an affair with Callingham, which resulted in an abortion, her being named in a divorce action by Callingham's wife, and her marriage to the divorced Callingham.

Norah Royce Turner was married three times: the first, to Clement Callingham from 1938 to his death in 1945, resulted in one son, Lance. The second, in 1946, to Sir William Collins, the president of Fortnum & Mason, lasted until his death in 1948. The third, in 1949, was to Sir Bernard Docker, chairman of Birmingham Small Arms, Daimler and a director of the Midland Bank, Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company and Thomas Cook and Son

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