its independence in 1947, the India Office was abolished, and Henderson was appointed as a Privy Counsellor and promoted to Secretary of State for Air, the ministry with responsibility for the Royal Air Force. He retained that post until Labour's defeat at the 1951 general election. Later life and death Henderson appeared as a contestant on the American television game show What's My Line? on 6 October 1957. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium upon his death in 1968. Notes References External links 1893 births 1968 deaths Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Rowley, Arthur Henderson, Baron Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cardiff constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 People educated at Queen's College, Taunton UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs who were granted peerages War Office personnel in World War II Welsh Labour Party MPs British Army personnel of World War II British Army General List officers British Army personnel of World War I Life peers created by Elizabeth II