[2] Five years later he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Preston, of Ardsalla in the County of Meath, and Earl Ludlow, both in the Peerage or Ireland.
[3] Lord Ludlow remained eligible to stand for election to the House of Commons and in 1768 he was returned for Huntingdonshire, a seat he would hold for the next 28 years.
[4][5] In 1782 he was sworn of the Privy Council[6] and appointed Comptroller of the Household, a post he held until 1784.
[1] Lord Ludlow married Lady Frances, eldest daughter of Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough, in 1753.
He died in October 1803, aged 73, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Augustus.