1957 he decided instead to join the board of Midland Bank. Monckton was chairman of Midland Bank (1957–64), President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (1956–1957), President of Surrey County Cricket Club (1950–52 and 1959–65), Chairman of the Iraq Petroleum Company (1958), Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Central Africa (1960), and Chancellor of the University of Sussex (1961–65). In 1960 he headed the Monckton Commission that concluded that the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland could not be maintained except by force or through massive changes in racial legislation. It advocated a majority of African members in the Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesian legislatures and giving these territories the option to leave the Federation after five years. Personal life He married Polly Colyer-Fergusson, daughter of Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, the family who owned Ightham Mote, Sevenoaks. In 1947, he married, secondly, to Bridget Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland, CBE, the wartime head of the ATS counterpart in India, the Women's Army Corps (India), and also of the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service (WRINS). He was succeeded by his son Gilbert, born of his first marriage, on his death in 1965 at the age of 73. Arms References ; cited as ODNB. Sources The life of Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Frederick Winston Furneaux-Smith, (1969) Walter Monckton, H. Montgomery Hyde, (1991), Cricinfo profile External links Monckton at the National Portrait Gallery 1891 births 1965 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British Secretaries of State Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies English cricketers English cricket administrators Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People of the Iraq Petroleum Company Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club Presidents of the Oxford Union Presidents of Surrey County Cricket Club Solicitors General for England and Wales UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs who were granted peerages Attorneys-General of the Duchy of Cornwall Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers English King's Counsel Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955 Ministers in the Eden government, 1955–1957 People from Tonbridge and Malling (district) People from Brenchley Viscounts created by Elizabeth II British expatriates in India People educated at Harrow School