 He was then elected to the House of Lords as a Representative Peer for Ireland in 1841.He gained the rank of captain in the service of the Coldstream Guards and was Colonel of the Tyrone Militia.He married Lady Jane Frederica Harriot Mary Grimston, daughter of James Walter Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam and Lady Charlotte Jenkinson, on 4 September 1845 at St. Michael's, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and had issue