Career
He was elected as Member of Parliament for Spelthorne at the 1945 general election. He held that constituency until his retirement at the 1966 general election. Having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1961 New Year Honours, he was created a life peer on 9 June 1966 taking the title Baron Pargiter, of Southall in the London Borough of Ealing.