sentences:  On the accession of King George I he came to favour and was appointed groom of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales.At the 1715 general election, he was elected as Whig MP for Dysart Burghs on the interest of Lord Rothes and voted consistently with the Administration.He was ordered to Scotland to counter the Jacobite rebellion in September 1715 as colonel of his reformed regiment, renamed the Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Dragoons.