He chose to sit for the latter, and held the seat until 1781, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the Irish House of Lords.
In 1789, he was appointed Joint Master of the Rolls in Ireland alongside the Earl of Carysfort.
[1] In 1800, he was elected as one of the 28 original Irish representative peer to sit in the House of Lords.
[4] Lord Glandore was married in London in 1771 by Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Honourable Diana, daughter of George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.
Lord Glandore survived her by a year and died in October 1815, aged 62.