Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster

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.

The Right Honourable The Lord Winster KCMG PC
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

Political career

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. In 1935 he was elected as Labour MP for Nuneaton. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Winster, of Witherslack in the County of Westmorland, 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

Lord Winster died in 1961 at the age of 76 in the Uckfield Rural District, Sussex. The peerage became extinct on his death.

External links

• 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