 He held the seat at the 1935 general election, but resigned in 1940 to become a Metropolitan Police magistrate.He died in Chelsea, London aged 64.He married firstly on 29 April 1912 in Hampstead to Alice Leonora Zacyntha Boyle (23 February 1886 – 23 July 1933), of the family of the earls of Cork & Orrery, and had issue by her.