[1] He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge as a fellow commoner on 3 July 1671, and later transferred to Corpus Christi.
[2] Travelling abroad in 1673, he returned to spend a year as a captain in the Earl of Northampton's foot regiment, before being admitted to the Inner Temple on 27 November 1675.
He was a supporter of James II and raised an independent troop of horse during the Monmouth Rebellion.
He remained a Jacobite after the Glorious Revolution, and was arrested in 1690 but released after the intercession of Lord Nottingham.
The surviving son fought for James Francis Edward Stuart in the Jacobite rising of 1715 and died unmarried in 1719.