[1] He was educated at Harrow School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Master of Arts in 1803.
[2] At Cambridge he wrote a translation of Lycophron's poem about Cassandra that was praised highly by Richard Porson.
[4] In 1806 he embarked on a tour of the Russian Empire which he described in detail in letters to his father that were published in The remains of the late Lord Viscount Royston: With a memoir of his life by the Rev.
Henry Pepys (London: J. Murray, 1838); they were used by Lydia Davis for her story "Lord Royston's Tour.
"[5] He was returned to parliament for Reigate in 1806, a seat he held until April 1808,[1][6] when he was lost in a storm off Memel in a ship called the Agatha of Lübeck.