 He held his seat through three further general elections, before retiring from the House of Commons at the 1964 general election.He was then succeeded as MP by the future Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe.He was created a Baronet, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester, on 10 July 1959 and was further honoured when he was created a life peer as Baron Oakshott, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester on 21 August 1964.