He served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.
From 1939 to 1940 he held political office as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the government of Neville Chamberlain.
Lord Bridport married firstly Pamela Aline Mary, daughter of Charles J.
Baker, in 1934.
They were divorced in 1945 and he married secondly Sheila Jeanne Agatha, daughter of Johan Hendrik van Meurs, in 1945.
Bridport died in July 1969, aged 58, and was succeeded by his son from his second marriage, Alexander.