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

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Personal life

In 1936, she married

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, General Secretary of the Labour Party.Middleton, Lucy Annie
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Career

In the 1945 landslide general election, Middleton was elected Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, gaining the seat from the

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, after the retirement of her predecessor

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. Middleton held Plymouth Sutton until

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, when it was gained by another member of the Astor family,

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. Lucy Middleton was an active 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 Lucy Middleton edited the essays of the 9 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.

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* 1894 births 1983 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Devon UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 20th-century British women politicians Politicians from Plymouth, Devon {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub