Career

He was President of the British Bankers" Association from 1938 to 1946 and was also a Director of the National Provincial Bank and of London Assurance. In 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Colgrain, of Everlands in the County of Kent. Lord Colgrain married Lady Angela Mary Alice, daughter of Henry Ryder, 4th Earl of Harrowby, in 1890.

She died in 1939.