Chesham took his seat in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1952, and later served in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1959 to 1964.
Chesham took his seat in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1952. Chesham later served in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan-Home as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1959 to 1964. Chesham later served in the Conservative administrations of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1959 to 1964.