Career
He was Minister of Civil Aviation under Clement Attlee between 1945 and 1946 and Governor of Cyprus between 1946 and 1949. In 1935 he was elected as Labour Member of Parliament 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. Lord Winster died in 1961 at the age of 76 in the Uckfield Rural District, Sussex.
The peerage became extinct on his death.