 Corby Castle was sold in 1994 to Lord Ballyedmond.The fifth Baronet was a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria between 1963 and 1983.On 7 December 2010, it was reported that Philip Howard, the son of Sir John Philip Howard-Lawson, 6th Baronet, was suing the latter for unlawfully selling the ancestral home of Corby Castle.