Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry

Elaine Frances Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry ( born March 2, 1904 in Scarborough, England; † 6 October 1991 in Westminster, England) was a British politician.

Life

Burton took three attempts to get elected as Member of Parliament. At their first choice they made ​​in 1943 for the Commonwealth party. Your second choice in 1945, this time for the Labour Party. In the British general election, 1950, she then got a seat in Parliament for the newly created constituency of Coventry South, which she held until 1959, when it was replaced by Philip Hocking.

Burton was raised as Baroness Burton of Coventry in the county of Warwickshire to the peerage in April 1962.

Burton left the Labour Party in 1981, the newly formed Social Democratic Party to join, she became the spokeswoman in the Lords for civil aviation and consumer protection.