Christine Butler
Christine Margaret Butler was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Castle Point, representing the Labour Party, between 1997 and 2001.She attended Nelson Grammar School on Oxford Road in Nelson, then Middlesex Polytechnic, where she gained a BA. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry then the NHS.Parliamentary career
She was elected Labour Party Member of Parliament for Castle Point in Essex in 1997, but lost her seat in the 2001 election, to Robert Spink, the man she had defeated, by under 1,000 votes.Personal life
Butler married Robert Butler in 1964 in Uxbridge, with whom she had three sons. She died in September 2017 at the age of 73 after suffering from dementia.
