Acting

Barbara Castle

Born 6 October 1910 · Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK · Died 3 May 2002 at 91

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.