in 1939, he was Parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to the President of the Board of Trade, Oliver Stanley.
From 1940 to 1941, he fought in the Second World War as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
He retired from House of Commons at the 1955 general election[1] and in September 1955, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron McCorquodale of Newton, of Newton-le-Willows in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Lord McCorquodale married firstly Winifred Sophia Doris, daughter of James Oscar Max Clark, in 1931.
After his first wife's death in November 1960, he married secondly the Honourable Daisy Yoskul Consuelo, daughter of Weetman Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray and widow of both Robert Brampton Gurdon and Alistair Monteith Gibb, in 1962.