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Arthur Henderson (1863–1935)

Alfred Priest (1874–1929) (copy after)

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Arthur Henderson (1863–1935)

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The British statesman, Arthur Henderson (1863–1935), was an architect of the Labour Party and served as foreign secretary from 1929 to 1931 in Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour Government. Born in Glasgow, his father died when he was just ten, and with his mother remarrying, the family moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where Arthur found work in the Robert Stephenson locomotive factory and later as an iron founder. Henderson was a member of the temperance society, the Good Templars, a Methodist lay preacher, and a pacifist. He was Britain’s first Labour cabinet minister, taking up a position in the war cabinet in 1916. Henderson was Home Secretary in the short-lived 1924 Labour Government, and in 1934 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

People's History Museum

Manchester

Title

Arthur Henderson (1863–1935)

Date

1917

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 130 x W 104 cm

Accession number

NMLH.2010.25.1

Acquisition method

on loan from the Labour Party, since 2010

Work type

Painting

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