Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell
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(Anna) Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (née Anna Dora Creditor; 25 April 1901–1 July 1989), was a British Labour Party politician.
Gaitskell was delegate at the UN General Assembly and member of the All Party Committee for Human Rights from 1977 to 1989. She was also Trustee of the Anglo-German Federation.
On 23 January 1964, she was made a life peer with the title Baroness Gaitskell, of Egremont in the County of Cumberland. Two years later she received a honorary degree as Doctor of Law from the University of Leeds.
Baroness Gaitskell was married twice, the second time to Hugh Gaitskell; she had three children.
She outlived Hugh Gaitskell by 26 years after his death in January 1963, living until July 1989 and the age of 88.
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