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
Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie on European Communities, 1974–1977. She was also a Deputy Speaker. She died of cancer in 1978, aged 63. She was mentioned several times in the 2014 Loyal Address to Parliament on 4 June in the House of Commons by Penny Mordaunt. In 1983 the veteran Labour politician, Emanuel Shinwell stated Tweedsmuir was 'the best' female MP Britain had had. Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, (née Thomson; 25 January 1915 – 11 March 1978) was a Unionist and Conservative politician. The daughter of Brigadier Alan F. Thomson DSO, she married Major Sir