 He told the press he had initially been "shocked, tremendously worried and ill" at the thought of leaving the Commons, but decided to make the sacrifice.Cousins won the subsequent by-election.Once he had been created a life peer on 12 December 1964 as Baron Bowles, "of Nuneaton in the County of Warwick", Bowles was appointed as Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard and Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords.