[1] In 1701 he was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament for Oxford in succession to his father, likely on the interest of his kinsman Lord Norreys.
[1] He was soon identified as an opponent of the Whig government and opposed the preparations for war with France in the 1701 parliamentary session.
He was returned unopposed in 1702 and continued to vote with the Tories, including in support of the Earl of Nottingham.
In the 1705 election he defended his seat with ease against Whig opposition and in an analysis of the new Parliament he was again identified as a Tory.
[1] Norreys died unmarried on 6 June 1706, while still an MP and predeceasing his father, and was buried at Weston-on-the-Green.