The son of Daniel Giles of the Bank of England, he was educated at Hertford College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn; he was a Whig MP for East Grinstead (1802-07) and St. Albans (1809-12). He was a political acquaintance of William Lamb.

REFERENCES TO Daniel Giles:

Samuel Whitbread to Thomas Creevey, 8 November 1809 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

William Lamb to Lady Melbourne, 30 September 1812 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)