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
Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's Eileen Emily Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Baroness Bannside ("née" Cassells; born 2 November 1931, Belfast), is a Northern Irish Unionist politician, a vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party, and the widow of Ian Paisley, Lord Bannside, former leader of the DUP. She became a life peer in 2006. She retired from the House of Lords on 30 October 2017. Eileen Emily Cassells married Ian Richard Kyle Paisley on 13 October 1956. They have five children, a daughter Rhonda (a graduate of Bob Jones University, who served as a member of Belfast