Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster

Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, PC (27 March 1885 – 7 June 1961) was a British Liberal then Labour politician.

Fletcher was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament for Basingstoke in 1923 by 348 votes but lost the seat in 1924.He was elected as Labour MP for Nuneaton in 1935. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Winster 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, and from 1946 to 1949, he served as Governor of Cyprus.

Lord Winster died in 1961 at the age of 76. The peerage became extinct on his death. [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peersw3.htm]

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