He worked with Sir Orlando Drought against the leadership of the Duke of Omnium.

"...a gentleman who had belonged to the late Ministry, but had somewhat out-Heroded Herod in his Conservatism, so as to have been considered to he unfit for the Coalition.... He was a labourious, honest man,-but hardly of calibre sufficient not to regret his own honesty in such an emergency as the present" - The Prime Minister