China 1925–1926. In 1927 he went to India on the Committee of Inquiry on Indian States-British relations. He was appointed to the Municipal Banks Committee and given other government work; he was some time honorary treasurer of the National Trust. For the above in 1929 he was made C.B., and in 1936 made a baronet. His brother George attributed his "services were in constant request, and as constantly given, for matters of the highest importance" due to his ability to "master any subject with accuracy...and...width". Political term of office He was a Colonel in the British Army, still in the official Parliamentary report (Hansard) in 1920 holding command of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry. He was selected as the Conservative, winning, candidate for Uxbridge in 1918 for which he served one term, to 1922 as MP. In 1936, he was created a Baronet, of Eyeworth in the County of Bedford. His contributions to national-level politics were: a written question in 1919, as to whether a cash-on-delivery system of household goods would be permitted in law, to which the reply was no; and two speeches, in April 1920, a mention of a clause in the German Empire constitution which would allow Austrians to sit in the Reichstag; and in February the long opening address (after the King's Speech) in his uniform with one ten-word-interruption (counted thus by Hansard as two speeches). Personal legacy He died at 26 Hill Street, Mayfair, London, on 19 December 1938, aged 68, with the baronetcy becoming extinct. Lady Peel, who was 19 years younger than her husband, died in January 1981, latterly of Barton Hall, Barton Turf, aged 91. His probate was resworn in 1939, at .; his widow's was sworn in 1981, at . Works Trooper 8008 - embodies his experiences in the Boer War. The Binding of the Nile and the New Sudan. O.C. Beds Yeomanry - World War I memoir, 1935 References External links 1870 births 1938 deaths Younger sons of viscounts Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Companions of the Distinguished Service Order UK MPs 1918–1922 Imperial Yeomanry officers Sidney British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of the Second Boer War