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Barbara Castle

1910-10-06 · Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC 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.