He was a great-grandson of Prime Minister Robert Peel.
He became known by the courtesy title Viscount Clanfield when his father was elevated to an earldom in 1929.
[1] He succeeded to the family baronetcy in 1942 on the death of the 6th baronet, his second cousin once removed.
He died in September 1969, aged 68, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William.
[1] This biography of an earl in the peerage of the United Kingdom is a stub.