Office
Between 1906-1910 Winfrey served as Parliamentary Secretary to Earl Carrington and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture from 1916-1918.
In August 1914 as Mayor of Peterborough he was one of the last to read the Riot Act after anti-German disturbances.
Winfrey was knighted in the 1914 New Year's Honours. He also served as a Justice of the Peace. He was Chairman of the Lincolnshire and Norfolk Small Holdings Association, Ltd and sometime Chairman of the National Educational Association. At its foundation in 1906 he was Treasurer of the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers & Small Holders Union which in 1920 became the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.
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