 He was pricked High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire for 1513-14 and 1518-19.In 1520 he accompanied Henry VIII, along with other knights, to Henry's meeting with Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.He was returned to Parliament in 1529 as a knight of the shire for Warwickshire and chosen in 1528 to replace the deceased William Compton as High Sheriff of Worcestershire, a position he held until his death in 1535.