Background
The elder son of the Honorary John Yarde-Buller (eldest son of John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston) and of Charlotte, a daughter of Edward S. C. Pole, of Radbourne, Derbyshire, he served in the Scots Guards until he succeeded to his grandfather"s titles and estates (amounting to some eleven thousand acres) in 1871, retiring the same year as a Captain.