Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer
Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer (14 April 1903 - 13 June 1972) was a British peeress.
Family[edit]
She was the daughter of Meyer Lapsker and in 1923 married Sir Leslie Plummer. She and her husband both held titles in their own right.
Career[edit]
Beatrice Plummer was a Justice of the Peace for Essex from 1947 and was created a life peer as Baroness Plummer, of Toppesfield in the County of Essex on 10 May 1965.[1] She was one of the first Jews to be made a life peer.[2] She was a member of the Independent Television Authority, 1966–1971 and of the British Agricultural Export Council.
References[edit]
- ^ "No. 43648". The London Gazette. 11 May 1965. p. 4573.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
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