 This petition was never presented, because in 1949, for the first time, the House of Lords voted in favour of a motion to admit female hereditary peers (although they did not finally gain the right until 1963), but he did participate in another petition that was presented to the House of Lords on 2 March 1948.In the 1950s he called for Britain to adopt a new approach to the Commonwealth, to abandon her role as matriarch in favour of a sisterly role.In 1956 he published a selection of essays titled "Laws and Flaws