He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Postmaster General, the Minister of Health, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[1] He was appointed to the Board of Governors of the British Film Institute in 1936 and went on to serve as its Chair from 1939 to 1945.
[1] Brass was knighted in 1929 and in 1945 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Chattisham, of Clitheroe in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
[2] Lord Chattisham died at 20 Devonshire Place, Marylebone, on 24 August 1945, aged 59.
Although cremated at Golders Green his ashes were interred at West Norwood Cemetery.