[1] Needham succeeded his father in 1631, inheriting his titles as 2nd Viscount Kilmorey,[1] and 2nd Feudal Baron of Orhera,[citation needed] and his English estate of Shavington Hall at Adderley, Shropshire.
Although his younger son was captured in a skirmish in 1645, and that it was falsely rumoured that his wife Frances had been killed, Kilmorey escaped at the end of the siege (late January) and made his way to Oxford, which was still held by a large Royalist garrison, where he surrendered when the city surrendered (24 June 1646).
During the Third Civil War he was arrested when Charles II led a predominantly Scottish army through Cheshire on the way to defeat at the Battle of Worcester (3 September 1651).
[1] His estates passed to his son and heir Robert, the 3rd Viscount who six years later was to be a participant in Booth's Rebellion.
[1] Robert and Eleanor had twelve children including a son Charles, and Eleanor (died 1663[2]), second wife of John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, one of the great beauties of the English Court and according to the diarist Samuel Pepys the 17th mistress of Charles II.