[3] Over a dozen of his ancestors had sat in the House of Commons over the preceding century.

He was re-elected in 1895, but at the 1900 general election he stood instead in the Hertford constituency which had been represented by his father until his death in 1898.

He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry on 26 September 1916, and remained joint Hon Colonel when it merged into the 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, after the war.

[6][7] After his death in 1930, aged 67, the contents of the family's stately home were dispersed, and the building rented out.

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