Crest: On the battlements of a tower gules, a griffin passant or, holding in the beak a sprig of laurel.

He was with the World Bank between 1965 and 1995, serving in Washington D.C., New York City (where he was Special Representative to the United Nations from 1974 to 1981) and Paris.

He was a member of the UK Delegation to Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and Western European Union from 1997 to 1999.

He lost his seat in Parliament after the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in that body.

In addition, on 1 October 2014 he became the first peer to retire permanently under the statutory provisions of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.