 He succeeded his father as 14th Baron in 1562; the family fortune was by then much reduced by the heavy ransom required to free his father.Elizabeth I, however, restored the property forfeited by his father for his part in the Lady Jane Grey affair.In 1580, he recruited a force of 6,000 and was sent as Lord Deputy of Ireland to quell the Second Desmond Rebellion, replacing the notoriously brutal Sir William Pelham.