Background
Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley.
Wodehouse was the eldest son of John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley.
He attended Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He later played for the Old Cantabs team Aged 22 years and 2 months at election, throughout his service he was Baby of the House of Commons. In the former year he became Justice of the Peace for the county of Norfolk.
Lord Wodehouse was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Norfolk Yeomanry in 1911 and served with them until the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
He served as a Captain in the 16th Lancers during the war, when he was wounded and twice mentioned in despatches. He was at the Western Front in France from 1914 to 1917, and on the Italian Front during 1917-1918.
From 1921 to 1933 he was on the Reserve of Officers. From outside Parliament he served as unpaid Assistant Private Secretary to the Colonial Secretary, then Winston Churchill, in 1921-1922, and was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1925.
He succeeded in his father"s titles in 1932, enabling him to sit in the House of Lords.
Lord Kimberley married the twice-divorced Frances Margaret Montagu, daughter of Leonard Irby, on 5 May 1922. lieutenant is also said (Brewer"s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) that his kinsman P. G. Wodehouse based the character of Bertie Wooster on him.
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At Cambridge, he was a committee member of the University Pitt Club. He started playing polo at university, where he was a member of the Light Blue team Wodehouse was Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk between the General Elections of 1906 and January 1910.