Which woman is the MP for Derby South?
Derby South (UK Parliament constituency) in 1950, when the former two-seat constituency of Derby was split into two single-member seats. Unlike the Derby North seat, this seat has to date been a Labour Party seat. A notable former MP for the seat was its first incumbent, Philip Noel-Baker of the Labour Party. He served as a Cabinet minister in the post-war Attlee government, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 for his campaigning for disarmament. He had previously represented the former two-seat constituency of Derby since a by-election in 1936. The former Cabinet minister Margaret Beckett, who had represented Lincoln (under her maiden
James Cavendish (MP for Derby) both the general elections of 1701. He did not stand in 1702, but was elected in 1705. He was returned unopposed at the 1708 general election but was defeated in a contest for Derby in 1710. He was returned as MP for Derby at the 1715 general election and voted for the septennial bill in 1716 and the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts in 1719. He was returned unopposed at the 1722 and 1727 general elections. In the latter parliament he took an independent line, and voted against the Government on the Hessians 1730, the army 1732,