Crest: Arm in armour embowed, the hand holding a Sword proper, hilt and pommel Or.

Supporters: Dexter: a Piper of the Irish Guards, holding under the interior arm a Bagpipe proper, charged on the shoulder with an Escutcheon barry nebuly of six Argent and Azure.

Sinister: a Sepoy of the 3rd/2nd Punjabi Regiment, holding in the exterior hand a rifle proper, charged on the shoulder with an Escutcheon barry nebuly of six Argent and Azure.

He briefly served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) under Edward Heath from January to March 1974.

As a male line descendant of the fourth Earl of Caledon, he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.