Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood

Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood (born 22 January 1924), is a Labour Party activist. On a national and international level she has been heavily involved in promoting equal opportunities for women, and has supported many organizations in her native Yorkshire. Born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, the daughter of Arthur Lockwood, a coal miner, Betty Lockwood followed an unconventional route into politics. She left Eastborough Girls School at 14, then continued her studies at night school. With the support of a Mary MacArthur scholarship for working women, she read economics and politics at Ruskin College in Oxford. After attending university she became active in the Labour Party as regional women's organiser for Yorkshire, then moved to...