Millie Miller (8 April 1922 – 29 October 1977) was a British Labour Party politician. Miller was a councillor in the London Borough of Camden and was the first woman to lead a London Borough council when she became leader in 1971, remaining in the post until 1973. Earlier, she had been the Mayor of Camden and of Stoke Newington where she had been a councillor. After coming second to the Conservative incumbent Thomas Iremonger in her first bid to become Member of Parliament for Ilford North in the February 1974 general election, Miller won the seat the following October. In 1977, she died in office at the age of 55. Her successor in the subsequent by-election was the Conservative Vivian Bendall. References Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974 External links 1922 births 1977 deaths Councillors in the London Borough of Camden Councillors in the London Borough of Hackney Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies British Jews Jewish British politicians Jewish women politicians Labour Party (UK) councillors Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough Council UK MPs 1974–1979 20th-century British women politicians Leaders of local authorities of England 20th-century English women 20th-century English people Women councillors in England