Peggy Arline Middleton (3 January 1916 – 26 August 1974) was a British politician who served on the Greater London Council (GLC).
[1] She taught in Greenwich, where she led a campaign against comics, having found 11-year-olds in her class reading material she considered unsuitable.
[1] In 1952, Middleton was elected as a Labour Party member of Greenwich Metropolitan Borough Council.
During that year, she was fined £1 for attending a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament demonstration and refusing to move when asked by police,[3] at which she claimed to have had her arm seized and twisted by the officers.
[6] In 1977, Peggy Middleton House was completed, providing office space for staff at the Royal Borough of Greenwich.