Gwyneth Dunwoody, MP
Gwyneth Dunwoody was born in Fulham in 1930. Her family has 
always been political - both of her grandmothers were suffragettes, 
her father, Morgan Phillips became the General Secretary of the Labour 
Party, and her mother served as a minister in the House of Lords 
before being made the Lord Lieutenant of London. She is the mother of 
a daughter and two sons, and has ten grandchildren. 
Gwyneth joined the Labour party in 1946, and has always been a loyal 
and very active member. Before, she was a Town Councillor in Totnes, 
stood for Exeter in 1964 and won the seat in 1966. Between 1967 and 
1970, she was a minister on the Board of Trade. She lost her seat in 
1970 and spent the next four years as Director of the Film Production 
Association of Great Britain. She has been the Member of Parliament 
for Crewe and Nantwich from 1974 to present. 
Also, she was a member of the European Parliament from 1974 -1979.  
Gwyneth has, at various times, been a front bench Opposition 
Spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the National Health 
System and Transport. She is a former chair of the Labour Party 
Communications Committee. She is now the Chair of the Select 
Committee on Transport.