 In 1965, he retired from all his union posts, joining the Central Training Council.Two years later, on 21 September 1967 he accepted a life peerage, taking the title Baron Hill of Wivenhoe, of Wivenhoe in the County of Essex, having taken his title from the town of Wivenhoe, where he lived in a terraced house.He died in hospital in Colchester, aged 70.