Background
CASTLE, Barbara Anne Castle was born on October 6, 1910 in Chesterfield. Daughter of F. Betts and Annie Rebecca Farrand.
politician Member of the House of Lords
CASTLE, Barbara Anne Castle was born on October 6, 1910 in Chesterfield. Daughter of F. Betts and Annie Rebecca Farrand.
Bradford Girls’ Grammar School. St Hugh’s College, Oxford, Bachelor of Arts.
Member, St Paneras Borough Council, 1937. Member of Parliament, Blackburn, 1945-1950, Blackburn East, 1950- 1955, Blackburn, 1955-1979: member, National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, 1950-1985. Vice-Cwmn., 1957-1958, Cwmn., 19581959, Labour Party.
Minister of Overseas Development, 1964-1965. Minister of Transport, 1965-1968. First Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, 1968-1970.
Secretary of State for Social Services, 19741976: Member of the European Parliament, Greater Manchester North, 1979-1984, Greater Manchester West, since 1984. Leader, British Labour Group, 1979-1985. Vice-Cwmn. of the Socialist Group, 1979-1986, Co-Chmn., Women's National Commn., 1975-1976.
Assistant, editor. Town and County Councillor, 1936-1940. Member. Metropolitan Water Board, 19401945. Admin, officer, Ministry of Food, 1941-1944.
Housing correspondent and forces adviser, Daily Mirror, 1944-1945.
Social Security, 1943. The Castle Diaries, 19741976, 1980. The Castle Diaries Vol II, 1964-1970, 1984.Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst, 1987.
St. Pancras Borough Council, London 193745, Metropolitan Water Board 1940-1945, National. European Pari, for Greater Manchester North 1979-1984, for Greater Manchester West 1984-1989.
Walking, gardening, reading.
Married Edward Castle (later Lord Castle of Islington, died in 1979) in 1944.