Career
He lost the Chesterfield seat at the 1935 general election, but after the retirement in 1937 of Stanley Baldwin, he was returned to Parliament at a by-election for Baldwin"s Bewdley constituency in Worcestershire. He held the seat until its abolition for the 1950 general election, when he was elected as Member of Parliament for Rutland and Stamford. He retired from the House of Commons at the 1959 general election, having been made a baronet in 1954.
He died in 1973 in Chelsea.