Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer

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Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer (14 April 1903 - 13 June 1972) was a British peeress.

[edit] Family

She was the daughter of Meyer Lapsker and in 1923 married Leslie Plummer.

[edit] Career

Beatrice Plummer was a Justice of the Peace for Essex from 1947 and a life peer from 1965. She was one of the first Jews to be made a life peer.[1]. She was a member of the Independent Television Authority, 1966-1971 and of the British Agricultural Export Council.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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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