In 1849, he joined the 4th Light Dragoons and served in the Crimean War, where his older brother was killed at Sebastopol.
He was elected to the House of Commons for Wells in 1855, a seat he held until 1868.
In 1870 he succeeded his father as second Baron Hylton and entered the House of Lords.
[2] There were children of this marriage, sons and a daughter, Agatha Eleanor Augusta Jolliffe,[3] who married Ailwyn Fellowes MP.
Lord Hylton married again to Anne, daughter of Henry Lambert, who was the second wife and the widow of the third Earl of Dunraven.