 At one point he faced possible prosecution for non-payment of tax arrears, and was helped by his former boss at the Board of Trade, Harold Wilson.He took early retirement from the railways in 1963, and died at Chase Farm hospital, Enfield, on 26 October 1964, aged 59, just after the General Election that brought Labour back to power under Wilson.In the Commons debate on 3 February 1949, Attlee had stated