Lucy Middleton

Lucy Middleton
Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton
In office 5 July 1945 – 4 October 1951
Preceded by	The Viscountess Astor
Succeeded by	Jakie Astor
Personal details
Born	Lucy Annie Cox (1894-05-09)9 May 1894
Died	20 November 1983(1983-11-20) (aged 89)
Political party	Labour

Lucy Annie Middleton (née Cox; 9 May 1894 – 20 November 1983) was a Labour politician in the United Kingdom.

Personal life

In 1936, she married James Middleton, General Secretary of the Labour Party.

Career

In the 1945 landslide general election, Middleton was elected Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, gaining the seat from the Conservatives, after the retirement of her predecessor Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor.

Middleton held Plymouth Sutton until 1951, when it was gained by another member of the Astor family, Jakie Astor.

Middleton was a member of Wimbledon Labour Party when the idea of publishing a book on the contribution of women to the labour movement was put forward as a way to celebrate International Women's Year. The Labour Party agreed to publish the book, and Middleton edited the essays of the nine younger women she had invited to contribute. When finished the Labour Party General Secretary decided there was no money to publish the book, but Croom Helm agreed to publish it as Women in the Labour Movement, the British experience in 1977.

External links

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lucy Middleton