David Gammans, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDavid Gammans
British politician
Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1895
Date of Death: 08-Feb-1957
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About David Gammans
- Sir Leonard David Gammans, 1st Baronet (10 November 1895 – 8 February 1957), known as David Gammans, was a British Conservative Party politician. He served with the Royal Field Artilliery 1914-1918.
- He was in the Colonial Service in Malaya, 1920-1934 and attached to the British Embassy in Tokyo, 1926-1928.
- In 1930 he toured in India, Europe and America and, on retiring from the Colonial Service, lectured in the U.S.A.
- and Canada.
- he was Director and Secretary of the Land Settlement Association, 1934-1939.He was first elected to Parliament at a by-election in 1941, following the death of the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey, Euan Wallace.
- Gammans held the North London seat until his own death in 1957, aged 61.
- The resulting 1957 Hornsey by-election was won for the Conservatives by his wife Muriel, known as Lady Gammans.In Winston Churchill's 1951–55 government, he served as Assistant Postmaster-General, under Earl De La 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.
- It 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 on 24 January 1956.
- The baronetcy became extinct on his death.
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