He was educated at The Oratory School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1907 (BA).
[1] They had five sons: Lord Feilding served with the British Army as an officer before retiring to the Special Reserve.
[1] Rejoining the army with the outbreak of the First World War, Feilding sailed for France with the Coldstream Guards.
It was in this early phase of the war that he earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his gallantry in leading his platoon on 21 October 1914 at the First Battle of Ypres, during which the first battalion of the regiment was utterly annihilated.
He took the directorship of several companies, including British Plaster Board Ltd, Sea Insurance Company Ltd and Vitamins Ltd.[1] He died at his home, Newnham Paddox, near Rugby, predeceasing his father, after suffering from influenza at the age of 51.