Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Winster
Order1:Minister of Civil Aviation
Term Start1:4 August 1945
Term End1:4 October 1946
Monarch1:George VI
Primeminister1:Clement Attlee
Predecessor1:The Viscount Swinton
Successor1:The Lord Nathan
Order2:Governor of Cyprus
Term Start2:24 October 1946
Term End2:4 August 1949
Monarch2:George VI
Predecessor2:Charles Campbell Woolley
Successor2:Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright
Birth Date:27 March 1885
Death Date:7 June 1961
Death Place:Uckfield, Sussex
Nationality:British
Party:Labour

Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, (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

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.