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- ↑ "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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