Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley

Who was Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley?

Michael Platt Winstanley, Baron Winstanley was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Cheadle from 1966 to 1970 and, after boundary changes, MP for the Hazel Grove half of his former seat from February to October 1974.

Winstanley was born in Nantwich, Cheshire. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester where he was President of the University Union and captain of cricket. He graduated in medicine and served in the RAMC before becoming a general practitioner in Urmston. He became a noted media personality as a television and radio doctor in the 1960s and hosting Granada Television's This Is Your Right consumer advice show in the 1970s.

Winstanley was made a life peer, with the title of Baron Winstanley, of Urmston in Greater Manchester, on 23 January 1976 during Harold Wilson's second term as Prime Minister.