Education
He was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He held many industrial and commercial directorships and was particularly prominent in coal mining. He was managing director of Rother Vale Collieries Limited which owned several collieries in the area of Treeton near Rotherham, Yorkshire, including Treeton, Fence and Orgreave mines. He was a director of United Steel Companies and twice President of the Mining Association of Great Britain.
In 1901 he bought Irnham Hall, Irnham, Lincolnshire which became and remains the family seat.