 Following his return to the United Kingdom, he was on 21 May 1902 appointed captain in the Yorkshire Hussars.He resigned from the British Army in 1907 with the intention of entering the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament, but having failed to be elected after contesting Manchester South as a Unionist in 1910 General Election, he rejoined the army in 1914 on the outbreak of World War 1, and served with the Yorkshire Hussars in France, and as a General Staff Officer.In the 1918 General Election he was elected as a coalition Conservative candidate for the Leominster, and held the seat until the 1922 election, when he transferred to the Harrow in Middlesex, where he stood as the official Conservative candidate.