He was born at Berwick House (the seat of his maternal grandparents), near Shrewsbury, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1816.

In 1833, he was made a GCH, admitted to the Privy Council and transferred to Queen Adelaide's Household, first as her Lord Chamberlain, then as Master of the Horse.

He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for Warwickshire in 1825 and received an honorary degree from Oxford University as DCL in 1835.

They had the following issue: His wife died in 1842 and his eldest daughter Mary became the de facto parent to her siblings.

[2] Lord Denbigh died in 1865 in London, and his titles passed to his eldest son, Rudolph.