He volunteered for service in the Second Boer War in South Africa the following month, and was appointed a lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry on 17 February 1900.

[2] Attached to the 28th (Bedfordshire) company, he left Albert Docks in the SS Kent in early February 1900,[3] and arrived at South Africa the following month, where he was Lord-in-waiting to the Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.

[1] He succeeded his father in the barony in 1900 and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords.

From 1905 to 1911 he served under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords).

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