The English surname Vickery, found chiefly in Devon and Cornwall, is an occupational name for a parish priest, or a locational name for where the parish priest lived. The name is derived from the Middle English term vica(i)re, vikere (Old French vicaire, from Latin vicarius meaning “substitute, or deputy”). The word was originally used to denote someone who carried out pastoral duties on behalf of the absentee holder of a benefice. The earliest record of the name is in the Domesday Book in 1086 in Devon, in the southwest of England. Notable bearers of teh surname Vickers include Howard Leroy Vickery, the decorated US Navy officer with the rank of Vice Admiral. He was renowned merchant shipbuilder. Howard Leroy Vickery ws born 1892 in Bellevue, Ohio and died in Palm Springs, California in 1946.

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