He became Justice of the peace and county Alderman for Somerset where he sat in politics.
[1] Hylton entered the Diplomatic Service in 1888, but in 1895 he was elected to the House of Commons for Wells.
He held this seat until 1899, when he succeeded his father as third Baron Hylton and entered the House of Lords.
[1] The coalition government of David Lloyd George fell in 1922, but Hylton continued as Deputy Chief Whip also under Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin[citation needed].
[1] He died in May 1945, aged 82, and was succeeded in his titles by his son William George Hervey Jolliffe.