He was elected MP for Gloucester in 1645, knighted by Oliver Cromwell in 1658 and made Governor of Windsor Castle from 1657 to 1660.
At the age of 14 he matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 12 September 1640 and entered Lincoln's Inn the same year.
[3][5] He was made Governor of Windsor Castle in 1657 and was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on 9 March 1658.
[8] In 1662 he succeeded his father to his Burford Priory and Besselsleigh estates and in 1672 was selected Sheriff of Oxfordshire.
[2] As his Cromwellian knighthood was not recognised after the Restoration King Charles II knighted him a second time at Whitehall on 13 March 1677.