"He associated with the fashionable set of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl Fitzwilliam, General Richard FitzPatrick, Charles James Fox, and Anthony Morris Storer.He sat for the borough of , in Hampshire, from May 1772 to 1774, and then for , a constituency controlled by the Duke of Devonshire, from 3 July 1781 until his death in 1804.