He was a stockbroker and during World War II a lieutenant of the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
On 4 December 1947, Lord Colwyn appeared in a military court in London and pleaded guilty to five charges of gross impropriety with Italian men at the Isle of Ischia and at Turin.
[3] He married three times: firstly, in 1940, to Miriam Gwendoline Ferguson, who testified to his moral character at his court martial.
His last wife Beryl remarried in 1969 to the botanist, George Taylor.
[4] With his first wife he had a son Ian Anthony who succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1966.