He was educated at Westminster School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

[1] Colchester succeeded to his father's peerage in 1829 and entered the House of Lords.

[4] Apart from his naval and political career he was also President of the Royal Geographical Society between 1845 and 1847.

Elizabeth Susan, daughter of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, in 1836.

He died in October 1867, aged 69, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Reginald.