[2] He served as editor of the Liverpool Daily Post for almost fifty years and also briefly represented Glasgow Bridgeton in the House of Commons as a Liberal.

His grandson, the second Baron, was a prominent lawyer and author who earned the Military Cross in the First World War.

As Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British Army of the Rhine he was one of the chief legal advisers during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg and Tokyo at the end of the Second World War.

[2] As of 2017[update], the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1981.

[3] The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon.