Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster (27 March1885–7 June1961) was a Britishpolitician. He served as MP first for Basingstoke (1923–1924 and later Nuneaton (1935–1941). He was raised to the peerage as Baron Winster in 1942. From 1945 to 1946 he was Minister of Civil Aviation in the government of Clement Attlee, and from 1946 to 1949 he was Governor of Cyprus. Lord Winster died in 1961 at the age of 76. March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Location within the British Isles View from Basingstoke railway station forecourt; the chrome yellow buildings stand on the site of older office buildings that have been demolished to build apartments. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses, see number 19. ... Nuneaton is a town in the Nuneaton and Bedworth borough of northern Warwickshire in central England. ... For other uses, see number 19. ... For other uses, see number 19. ... The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... This article is about the year. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport. ... The Right Honourable Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton, (1884-1972), known as Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton from 1935 until 1955, was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s. ... The Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport. ...
Ralph Neville, 4th Baron Neville of Raby, and 1st earl of Westmorland (1364-1425), eldest son of John, 3rd Baton Neville, and his wife Maud Percy (see NEVILLE, Family), was knighted by Thomas of Woodstock, afterwards duke of Gloucester, during the French expedition of 1380, and succeeded to his fathers barony in 1388.
The sons by his second marriage were Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury, William, Baron Fauconberg, George, Baron Latimer, Robert, bishop of Salisbury and then of Durham, and Edward, Baron Ahergavenny.
He was created baron of Burghersh and earl of Westmorland in 1624, and became Lord le Despenser on his mothers death in 1626.
The Ministry of Transport absorbed the Ministry of Shipping and was renamed the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its previous name at the end of the war.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using aircraft and to find something for the aircraft factories to do after the war.
Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st BaronWinster (August 4, 1945 - October 4, 1946)
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