Joyce Butler

Joyce Shore Butler
Member of Parliament for Wood Green
In office 26 May 1955 – 2 May 1979
Preceded by	William Irving
Succeeded by	Reg Race
Personal details
Born	Joyce Wells 13 December 1910
Died	2 January 1992 (aged 81)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour Co-operative Party
Spouse(s)	Vic Butler
Children	Two
Alma mater	Woodbrooke College

Joyce Shore Butler (née Wells; 13 December 1910 – 2 January 1992) was a British Labour Co-operative politician.

Butler was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Woodbrooke College.

She married Vic Butler, a Co-operative Party worker who became a councillor, the first mayor of the London Borough of Haringey and a parliamentary candidate. They had two children.

Butler became a councillor on Wood Green Borough Council in 1947, serving until the borough's abolition in 1965. She was chairman of the Housing committee and Leader of the Labour Group on Wood Green Council. She was an alderman and the first chairman of the new London Borough of Haringey in 1964.

Butler was first elected to Parliament at the 1955 general election, for the Wood Green constituency. She served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Land and Natural Resources 1965-67 but held no front-bench position. She served as vice-chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party and chair of the group of Co-operative Party MPs. She retired from Parliament at the 1979 general election.