He also represented the Free Foresters, Marylebone Cricket Club in 1948 and Middlesex in three matches in 1951, as a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.

[6][7][8] As the Second World War was ending, he joined the Coldstream Guards straight out of school in 1944.

[12] He managed all of this while remaining rather unfocused on athletics, preferring rugby and cricket and having a relaxed attitude to training where it is said that he would stub out his cigarette to go on the track.

[10] McCorquodale had a pair of running shoes made and Butler gave him a short plan, from which he went on to compete at the Olympics.

[17][18] After this he joined the Free Foresters Cricket Club, playing various matches for them including one against the Dutch national team.

[19] He joined the Marylebone Cricket Club again when they toured Canada in 1951, playing twelve games, including one against a Canadian XI.

[20] He married Rosemary Sybil Turnor, a daughter of Major Herbert Broke Turnor of Stoke Rochford Hall and his wife Lady Enid Fane (a daughter of the 13th Earl of Westmorland and famed beauty Lady Sybil St.Clair), in August 1947 at St Michael's Church, Chester Square.

[22] They had a daughter Sarah (who married Geoffrey van Cutsem, son of Bernard and brother of Hugh van Cutsem, in 1969) and a son Neil McCorquodale, who married Lady Sarah Spencer, sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1980.

[9] After he retired he supported local charities and managed the family estate at Little Ponton Hall, where he had moved to in 1955 and where he lived until his death.

[8][24] The estate's gardens are known to be very beautiful, spanning four acres, and in 2014 they were opened to the public, in aid of charity.