Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton

Lucy Edith 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; 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. He had been Liberal Party for the seat until he was very narrowly defeated in 1918. After switching to the Labour Party he regained it in 1922 and held it at the next three elections. At the by-election Ladyy Noel-Buxton won the seat with a majority of only 139 votes over the Conservative candidate Thomas Cook.[4] Cook opposed her again at the 1931 general election and this time she lost by nearly 7,000 votes as Labour suffered a landslide defeat nationally. She stood again at the 1935 general election, and was again defeated, but did manage to halve Cook's majority.[4]

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
"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
Noel-Buxton, Lady, Lucy Edith. Who's Who 1949. Adam & Charles Black, London. p. 2065.
Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 433. SBN 900178 01 9.

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.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lucy Noel-Buxton

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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[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

[2] "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

[LENByomperWhosWho-3] Noel-Buxton, Lady, Lucy Edith. Who's Who 1949. Adam & Charles Black, London. p. 2065.

[Craig18-49-4] Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 433. SBN 900178 01 9.