 While in Parliament, he served alongside Edward Stanley (from 1847 to 1852), Samuel Irton (from 1852 to 1857), Sir Henry Wyndham (from 1857 to 1860), and Percy Scawen Wyndham (from 1860 to 1872).Lord Lonsdale was succeeded by Percy Scawen Wyndham and The Lord Muncaster.In 1870, he became Master of the Cottesmore Hunt.