When Labour came to power in 1945 under Clement Attlee,Listowel was appointed Postmaster General,a post he held until April 1947,and was briefly Minister of Information between February and March 1946,when the office was abolished.
In April 1947 he entered the cabinet as Secretary of State for India and Burma. Prime Minister Clement Attlee,however,made all the government's major decisions regarding India.[3] After India gained independence in August 1947,his cabinet title became Secretary of State for Burma,working from the Burma Office,but in January 1948 this too was abolished,when Burma also gained independence,and Listowel then left the cabinet. He continued to serve under Attlee as Minister of State for Colonial Affairs from 1948 to 1950 and as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1950 to 1951. In 1957,he was appointed Governor-General of Ghana,a post he held until 1960,when Ghana became a Republic. He was later Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords between 1965 and 1976. He remained an active member of the House of Lords,speaking for the last time in July 1995,aged 88.[2]
Apart from his career in national politics,Lord Listowel was a member of the London County Council for East Lewisham between 1937 and 1946,and for Battersea North between 1952 and 1957. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1946[4] and a GCMG in 1957.[5]
Animal welfare
Listowel was an opponent of blood sports and was President of the League Against Cruel Sports from 1963 to 1967 when he resigned following his appointment as Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.[6][7] He was succeeded by Donald Soper.[8]
Family
Lord Listowel married three times.[9] Firstly he married Judith,daughter of Raoul de Marffy-Mantuana,on 24 July 1933. They had one daughter:
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