High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby PC CH (11 August 1898 – 2 May 1996) was a British Labour politician. He was the last British Cabinet minister born in the 19th Century; since he retired in 1967, every Cabinet minister has been born since 1900. He was also the last veteran of World War I to serve in both the Cabinet or in Parliament.