 He was created a life peer on 27 May 1966 as Baron Rowley, of Rowley Regis in the County of Staffordshire.He died two years later, the day after his 75th birthday.In the World War II coalition government, he served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1942 to 1943, and then as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1943 until the coalition was dissolved in 1945 at the end of the war.