 After retiring from the Irish Guards, he was president of Yorkshire Cricket Club between 1984 and 1989.He moved to the estate in South Stainley, near Ripon, after selling his family home, Nidd Hall, in the mid-1960s.He became the most likely heir to the title of Earldom of Ormond(e) (created 1328), the 16th century Earldom of Ossory and thus Chief Butler/Chief of the Butlers of Ireland (dormant since the death of the last Marquess of Ormonde), but submitted no claim to these Irish peerages to the British monarch.