Barbara Castle Barbara Castle Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT ("née" Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage in 1990. One of the most significant
Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean ideology’. Symons said the remarks had been made facetiously. Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Elizabeth Conway Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC (born 14 April 1951) is a British politician and former General Secretary of the FDA Trade Union and a Minister of State. She was created a Labour life peer as Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, "of Vernham Dean in the County of Hampshire" on 7 October 1996. From 2010, Baroness Symons has served as the Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce (ABCC). The daughter of Ernest Symons, Chairman of HM Board of Inland