In the same year he was commissioned into The Life Guards and served in the Far East, London, Windsor, and Northern Ireland until 1970.
In that year he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to read International Law in the United States, and earned a Master's degree from Stanford University.
He was a postgraduate student at Harvard Law School from 1971 to 1972, where he wrote "Natural Justice at the United Nations" 67 Am.
On returning to England, he practised at the Bar in London, specialising in commercial law.
This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1940s is a stub.