 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?"