Career
He sat in the House of Commons between 1822 and 1832. He held that seat until the 1826 general election, when he was returned as an Member of Parliament for the borough of Bletchingley in Surrey. He resigned the Bletchingley seat in 1827 (by taking the Chiltern Hundreds) to stand at a by-election for County Durham, where he was returned without a contest.
He held the Durham seat until the constituency was divided at the 1832 general election.
He was High Sheriff of Durham in 1841.