Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn PC, GCOT (6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British politician.[1] She was born as Barbara Anne Betts in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She grew up in Pontefract and Bradford, Yorkshire.
She graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She adopted her family's politics, which were left wing. Castle joined the Labour Party. She was Member for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979. She was Minister of Transport from 23 December 1965 – 6 April 1968.[1] She died in Chiltern, Buckinghamshire.[2]
Barbara Castle Media
Castle as Minister for Overseas Development meeting John Tembo, Malawi Minister of Finance, 1965
Castle authorised the construction of the Humber Bridge (pictured in 1980, prior to completion)
James Callaghan removed Castle from his Cabinet
Portrait of Barbara CASTLE
Artist Sam Holland with her bronze statue of Castle in Jubilee Square, Blackburn
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barbara Castle. www.parliament.uk. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
- ↑ British Labour Party Barbara Castle dies (91). www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved December 26, 2021
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