Edward Onslow (died 1615)
Sir Edward Onslow or Anslow of Knowle Park, in the parish of Cranleigh, Surrey (1562-1615), was an English landowner. The son of a Speaker of the House of Commons, and the father of a very notable Parliamentarian, he was the first of his family to be knighted.
Parentage and Estates
He was a son of the lawyer and
In 1549 William Harding of London,
Edward Onslow is said to have been a childhood friend of Philip Sidney's, during his youthful days at Shrewsbury.[5] He inherited Knowle around 1606. It was said of him, that he was "eminent for his virtue, and sanctity of life."[2] Sir Edward died on 2 April 1615, making his will on the previous day, making bequests to his eldest son Thomas and his youngest son Richard.[6] His widow Elizabeth survived until August 1630 and also left a will mentioning a daughter married to John Duncombe, and a daughter married to Edward Carr, and various other family relationships.[7]
It is told that a portrait of Sir Edward Onslow formerly hung at Knowle.[8]
Marriage
Edward Onslow married Elizabeth or Isabel Shirley (died 1630) at St Ann Blackfriars on 23 November 1584.[9] She was a daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston or Westmeston, West Sussex. Their children included:[10]
- Thomas Onslow (1596-1616), who married Mary daughter of Sir Samuel Lennard in 1616, but died soon after without issue.[1]
- Richard Onslow (born 1601), of West Clandon, married Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur Strangways of London, and was the father of Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons.
- Elizabeth Onslow, married Christopher Gardner of Dorking
- Jane Onslow, married (1) Sir Edward Carr of London and of Hillingdon, Middlesex, and (2) Gerald Aungier, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford.
- Mary Onslow, married John Duncombe of Albury, Surrey.
References
- ^ a b "The Family of Onslow", in J. Maclean, The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Cornwall, 3 vols. (London, 1879), III, pp. 391-97, at pp. 394-95 (Google).
- ^ a b "Onslow, Lord Onslow", in A. Collins, The Peerage of England, Fourth edition, corrected and continued, 7 vols. (H. Woodfall, London 1768), VII, pp. 201-19, at p. 206 (Google).
- ^ C.E. Vulliamy, The Onslow Family 1528-1874, with some account of their times (Chapman and Hall, London 1953), pp. 4-7 (Internet Archive).
- ^ 'Manors: Holdhurst, with Knowle', in "Parishes: Cranleigh", in H.E. Malden (ed.), A History of the County of Surrey, Volume 3, (VCH, London 1911), pp. 86-92 (British History Online, accessed 20 December 2022).
- ^ M.W. Wallace, The Life of Sir Philip Sidney (Cambridge University Press, 1915), pp. 52-53 and pp.68-69 (Google).
- ^ 'Will of Edward Onslowe of Knowle, Cranleigh, Knight', London Metropolitan Archives, Surrey Wills, ref. DW/PA/7/10, ff. 16r-17v.; DW/PA/5/1615/98. (P.C.C. 1615, Rudd quire).
- ^ 'Will of Elizabeth Onslowe of Knoll, Cranleigh, widow': London Metropolitan Archives, Surrey Wills, ref. DW/PA/7/11 ff. 559r-v; DW/PA/5/1630/76.
- ^ E.W. Brayley, J. Britton and E.W. Brayley junr., A Topographical History of Surrey (Robert Best Ede, Dorking/Tilt and Bogue, London 1841), V, p. 170, note 5 (Google).
- ^ W.H. Challen, 'Sussex entries in London parish registers (contd.): (St. Anne, Blackfriars)', Sussex Notes and Queries: Quarterly Journal of the Sussex Archaeological Society Vol. IX, no. 1 (February 1942), pp. 102-05, at p. 103 (Google).
- ^ "Onslow", in W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), "The Visitations of the County of Surrey, 1530, 1572 and 1623", Harleian Society Vol. XLIII, pp.154-55 (Internet Archive).