Lichfield's gambling and lavish entertaining got him heavily into debt and he was forced to sell off the entire contents of his Shugborough Hall estate.

[5] He had joined the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry as a trooper in 1811 before being appointed captain of the Lichfield Troop on 3 August 1812.

The regiment provided the escort when the Duchess of Kent and her daughter Princess Victoria visited him at Shugborough in 1832.

However, his extravagant lifestyle and gambling put him and the family into debts of £600,000 and led to Anson's financial collapse in 1842.

They had four sons and four daughters, being:[10] Lord Lichfield died at his townhouse at 2 Stanhope Street in Mayfair,[1] aged 58, and is buried at St Michael and All Angels Church in Colwich, a short distance from Shugborough Hall.