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- ↑ "No. 47868". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1979. pp. 7599–7600.
- ↑ "Peerage creations 1958-2008" (PDF). House of Lords Library . Retrieved 16 July 2016. Peerage creations are identified as being Dissolution Honours, not Resignation Honours.
- ↑ AEU: Amalgamated Engineering Union. 1989. p. 5.
Very quickly he had that problem under control and in 1975 was awarded a CBE, being knighted in Jim Callaghan's dissolution honours of 1979