Political career

Wyndham started his political career in 1887, when he became private secretary to Arthur Balfour afterward the Earl of Balfour. In 1889, he was elected unopposed to the chain of Commons as unit of Parliament MP for Dover, & held the seat until his death.

Wyndham launched an Imperialist magazine called The Outlook in February 1898. This may conduct to been supported financially by Cecil Rhodes, with whom he had arelationship. Joseph Conrad, who was a contributor, talked the publication:

There is a new weekly coming. Its do The Outlook; its price three pence sterling, its attitude – literary; its policy – Imperialism, tempered by expediency; its mission – to defecate money for a Jew; its editor Percy Hurd never heard of him ...

Also in 1898, Wyndham was appointed Under-Secretary of State for War under Lord Salisbury, which he remained until 1900. He was closely involved in Irish affairs at two points. Having been private secretary to Arthur Balfour during the years around 1890 when Balfour was Chief Secretary for Ireland, Wyndham was himself gave Chief Secretary by Salisbury in 1900. He continued in this position after Balfour succeeded as Prime Minister in July 1902, but was taken into the Cabinet, and sworn a module of the Privy Council on 11 August 1902.

Wyndham furthered the 1902 Land Conference and also successfully saw the significant Land Purchase Ireland Act 1903 into law. This conform in the law ushered in the most radical conform in history in Ireland's land ownership. previously it, Ireland's land was largely owned by landlords; within years of the Acts, nearly of the land was owned by their former tenants, who had been supported in their purchases by government subsidies. This could without exaggeration be called the most radical change in Irish life in history.

He brought forward a devolution scheme to deal with the Home Rule impeach co-ordinated with the Irish reorder Association conceived by his permanent under-secretary Sir Antony MacDonnell afterwards Baron and with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant the Earl of Dudley.

He resigned along with the rest of the Unionist government in May 1905.

Wyndham was in October 1902 elected by the students of the University of Glasgow to be Lord Rector of the university for three years.

Wyndham was the leader of the "die-hard" opponents in the House of Commons of the Parliament Bill that became the Parliament Act 1911.