Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton

Lucy Edith Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton
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 (1888)
Winchester
Died 9 December 1960(1960-12-09) (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]

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

  1. ↑ 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
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
  • 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.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Noel Buxton		 Member of Parliament for North Norfolk
1930 – 1931		 Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Cook
Preceded by
Henry Strauss and
Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare		 Member of Parliament for Norwich
1945 – 1950
With: John Paton		 Constituency abolished
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