Irene Ward

Irene Mary Bewick Ward, Baroness Ward of North Tyneside, (23 February 1895 – 26 April 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) successively for Wallsend and for Tynemouth for over three decades, being the longest serving female Conservative MP in history. She later became a life peeress in the House of Lords, spending a total of 43 years in Parliament. She was an outspoken advocate of the rights of women and the elderly. She also advocated, with success, for the publication of an official history of the clandestine Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. Provided by Wikipedia