The Lord Winster | |
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Minister of Civil Aviation | |
In office 4 August 1945 – 4 October 1946 | |
Monarch | George VI |
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | The Viscount Swinton |
Succeeded by | The Lord Nathan |
Governor of Cyprus | |
In office 24 October 1946 – 4 August 1949 | |
Monarch | George VI |
Preceded by | Charles Campbell Woolley |
Succeeded by | Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright |
Personal details | |
Born | 27 March 1885 |
Died | 7 June 1961 Uckfield, Sussex |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, KCMG, PC (27 March 1885 – 7 June 1961) was a British Liberal then Labour politician. He was Minister of Civil Aviation under Clement Attlee between 1945 and 1946 and Governor of Cyprus between 1946 and 1949.
Political career[edit]
Following service during the First World War as a Royal Navy officer Fletcher was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Basingstoke in 1923 by 348 votes but lost the seat in 1924.[1] In 1935 he was elected as Labour MP for Nuneaton.[2] He was raised to the peerage as Baron Winster, of Witherslack in the County of Westmorland,[3] in 1942 and made a Privy Counsellor in 1945. From 1945 to 1946 he was Minister of Civil Aviation in the government of Clement Attlee. The latter year he was appointed Governor of Cyprus, a position he held until 1949.
Personal life[edit]
Lord Winster died in 1961 at the age of 76 in the Uckfield Rural District, Sussex. The peerage became extinct on his death.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Reginald Fletcher
- Newspaper clippings about Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW