Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, (27 March 1885 – 7 June 1961) was a British
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then
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politician. He was
Minister of Civil Aviation under
Clement Attlee
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between 1945 and 1946 and
Governor of Cyprus
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between 1946 and 1949.
Political career
Following service during the First World War as a Royal Navy officer Fletcher was elected as Liberal
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Basingstoke
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in 1923 by 348 votes but lost the seat in 1924. In 1935 he was elected as Labour MP for
Nuneaton
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. He was raised to the
peerage
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as Baron Winster, of Witherslack in the County of Westmorland,
in 1942 and made a
Privy Counsellor
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in 1945. From 1945 to 1946 he was
Minister of Civil Aviation in the government of
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Mini ...
. The latter year he was appointed
Governor of Cyprus
This article lists the colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus.
Hitherto Ottoman Cyprus, a territory of the Ottoman Empire, a British protectorate under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention of ...
, a position he held until 1949.
Personal life
Lord Winster died in 1961 at the age of 76 in the
Uckfield
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'Uckfield', first recorded in writing as ...
Rural District,
Sussex
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. The peerage became extinct on his death.
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