[2] He served in the Diplomatic Service as Second Secretary to the British embassies in Paris, Rome and St Petersburg.

[1] He then served as Private Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl Cowper, between 1880 and 1882, and was elected to the House of Commons for Stratford-on-Avon in December 1885.

[4] He was later Special Envoy to Foreign Courts to announce the accession of King George V in 1910 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire from 1912 to 1913.

They had three children, including:[2] Lady Northampton died at Castle Ashby on 1 June 1902, aged 41, following a long illness from progressive paralysis.

[6] Lord Northampton survived her by eleven years and died, suddenly, at Acqui, Piedmont, Italy, in June 1913, aged 62.