Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton
Lucy Edith Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton | |
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| Member of Parliament for Norwich with John Paton | |
| In office 5 July 1945 – 22 February 1950 | |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Henry Strauss and Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Member of Parliament for North Norfolk | |
| In office 9 July 1930 – 26 October 1931 | |
| Preceded by | Noel Buxton |
| Succeeded by | Sir Thomas Cook |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lucy Edith Pelham Burn 1888 Winchester |
| Died | 9 December 1960 (aged 71–72) Frinton (Essex) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | Six |
Lucy Edith Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton (née Pelham Burn; 1888 – 9 December 1960) was a British Labour Party politician.
Life
She studied at Malvern St James then at Westfield College.[1] She married the 1st Baron Noel-Buxton in 1914 in London during the early summer of 1914.[2][3]
Career
Noel-Buxton was elected as Member of Parliament for North Norfolk at a by-election in 1930, after her husband, the MP Noel Buxton was elevated to the peerage as Baron Noel-Buxton. She won her seat with a majority of only 139 votes, and at the 1931 general election she lost by nearly 7,000 votes to the Conservative candidate Thomas Cook. She stood again at the 1935 general election, and was again defeated, but halved the Conservative majority.
Lady Noel-Buxton returned to the House of Commons in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, when she was elected for the 2-seat Norwich constituency. She did not contest the 1950 general election.
Personal life
Lady Noel-Buxton had six children.
References
- ^ C. V. J. Griffiths, Buxton, Lucy Edith Noel- [née Lucy Edith Burn], Lady Noel-Buxton (1888–1960), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, 2008 [1]
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Noel-Buxton, Lady, Lucy Edith. Adam & Charles Black, London. p. 2065.
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- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Lucy Noel-Buxton at the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.