[2] His first position in government was that of Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board in Lord Derby's third and final ministry, replacing Ralph Anstruther Earle (formerly Disraeli's private secretary), who had resigned over the Reform Bill of 1867.

[3] In May 1874, he proposed an amendment to the Alkali Act 1863 which had aimed to curb muriatic acid gas emissions from factories using the Leblanc Process.

[6] Lord Basing married Lydia Caroline, daughter of George Birch, in 1857.

Lord Basing survived her by thirteen years and died at Hoddington House, Hampshire, in October 1894, aged 68.

In 1898 his daughter Eleanor Birch Sclater-Booth married Henry Wilson-Fox, who was later a Conservative MP.