sentences:  In 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedfordshire to the Short Parliament in April and again to the Long Parliament in November.However, before he took his seat in November, he was called up to the House of Lords by writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Wentworth.He was married by mid-March 1658 to Philadelphia Carey (died 1696), daughter of Sir Ferdinando Carey (1590–1638), granddaughter of Sir Edmund Carey (1558–1637).