Barbara Castle

Acting

• Born 06/10/1910
• Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
• Died 03/05/2002

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.