Joining the 15th Light Dragoons in 1793, he became captain in the following year, and received a majority after serving as aide-de-camp to Prince Frederick, Duke of York in the Dutch expedition of 1799.

At Waterloo he was in command of the Household Cavalry Brigade,[5] which distinguished itself not less by its stern and patient endurance of the enemy's fire than by its celebrated charge on the cuirassiers of Milhaud's corps.

[1] The brigadier was particularly mentioned in Wellington's despatches, and received the thanks of parliament[1] as well as the Army Gold Cross with one clasp for his services at Talavera, Salamanca, Vitoria, Orthez, and Toulouse.

[6] At Waterloo in 1815 he lost his hat during the first cavalry charge and in the subsequent search for it a cannonball tore off the flap of his coat and killed his horse.

[8] After a short illness he died in London on 1 September 1842 and was interred in the church of St. George's, Hanover Square.