From 1941 to his death, he was the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a ceremonial office. In 1941 Canadian Governor General Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, swore him into the King's Privy Council for Canada. Although this allowed him to use the honorific title "The Honourable" and the post-nominal letters "PC", both of these were trumped by his membership in the Imperial Privy Council which allowed him the use of "The Right Honourable". He was also appointed Grand Seigneur of the Hudson's Bay Company in December 1955.