 He served as Sheriff of Gloucester in 1480 and Sheriff of Cornwall in 1483.He married twice, firstly in 1447 in the Basset family's Umberleigh Chapel to Anne Courtenay, a daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay (1404–1463) of Powderham, by his wife Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (died 1449).One of her brothers was Peter Courtenay (died 1492) Bishop of Exeter.