 He served under David Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1920 to 1924 and under Baldwin from 1924 to 1929.The latter year he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, a post he held until the government fell later that year and again in the National Government from 1931 to 1940.He was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.)