sentences:  He served in the Diplomatic Service as Second Secretary to the British embassies in Paris, Rome and St Petersburg.He then served as Private Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl Cowper, between 1880 and 1882, and was elected to the House of Commons for Stratford-on-Avon in December 1885.He held this seat until July the following year and then sat for Barnsley from 1889 to 1897.