Career
Gammans held the North London seat until his own death in 1957, aged 61. In Winston Churchill"s 1951-1955 government, he served as Assistant Postmaster-General, under Earl De Louisiana Warr. In 1952 there was "public outrage" that the Post Office cats had not had a pay rise since 1873, and the next year there was a question in the House of Commons, and Gammans was asked, "when the allowance payable for the maintenance of cats in his department was last raised?"
Gammans replied, "There is, I am afraid, a certain amount of industrial chaos in The Post Office cat world.
Allowances vary in different places, possibly according to the alleged efficiency of the animals and other factors.
lieutenant has proved impossible to organise any scheme for payment by results or output bonus.. there has been a general wage freeze since July 1918, but there have been no complaints!"
Gammans was made a baronet, of Hornsey in the County of Middlesex in 1956. The baronetcy became extinct on his death.