| abstract | - Dorothy Holroyd Archibald (née Edwards) (January 1895 - 22 July 1960) was a Labour Party politician. Born in Liverpool, she was the daughter of George Henry Edwards. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge afer which she became an inspector for the Board of Trade, travelling widely in the United Kingdom. She also took an active part in famine relief operations in Europe in the aftermath of the First World War. In February 1926 she married George Archibald, a member of Glasgow City Council. The couple had a son and moved to London in 1930. She worked for the London North Western Child Guidance Clinic and was awarded a BSc by Oxford for her work on ophthalmological disorders in children in 1944. She became active in the Labour Party, standing unsuccessfully at the 1945 general election as candidate for Bath. She was elected to the London County Council as a councillor representing Battersea South in 1946, serving a single three-year term. She continued her association with local government in London as a co-opted member of a number of committees and with the formation of the National Health Service in 1948 became chairman of the Friern Barnet Mental Hospital, a post she held until 1952. In 1949 her husband was raised to the peerage as Baron Archibald, of Woodside in the City of Glasgow, and she became Lady Archibald. She made a second unsuccessful attempt to enter parliament in 1950.
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