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Winifred Langton (20 May 1909 – 7 March 2003) was a British communist and social justice campaigner, the daughter of Adelaide Knight and Donald Adolphus Brown.

Life
Win Langton was their youngest daughter, born after Knight’s association with women’s suffrage and named after three women the pair admired: Winifred Blatchford, Teresa Billington- Grieg and Florence Nightingale.

Langton wrote a biography of her parents called Courage: An Account of the Lives of Eliza Adelaide Knight and Donald Adolphus Brown.

Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Sheerness).

Death and legacy
Langton was included in a 2023 installation by Kendal-based visual artist Amy Williams. Unearthed was a large-scale paper wildflower installation, highlighting the stories of lesser-known Cumbria women. "(Globe Flower - shaped like the sun, associated with warmth and positive energy) Avid campaigner and activist, who fought for social justice. She raised so much money for medical aid to Vietnam that she was invited to the opening of the hospital she helped to equip."