George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow
George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow
Background
He was the only son of
Career
Onslow sat as
On 3 March 1759 he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel of the Surrey Militia which his kinsman Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow, had raised and briefly commanded as Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. On 3 November that year, the regiment was divided into two battalions and George Onslow was promoted to colonel and given command of the 2nd or Western Battalion, with the writer Francis Grose as his adjutant. The militia was disembodied in December 1762 at the end of the Seven Years' War and the two Surrey battalions amalgamated on 26 February 1763, when Onslow was made colonel of the combined regiment. He resigned the command on 20 October 1765 after he became a government minister. Later, when he was himself Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, his eldest son commanded the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia.[4][5]
From 1765 to 1777, he was a junior
Family
Lord Onslow married Henrietta Shelley (d. May 1802), daughter of Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet and his second wife Margaret Pelham, on 26 June 1753. They had four sons and one daughter:[1][3]
- Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow (15 March 1754 – 22 February 1827)
- John Onslow (21 November 1755 – 4 February 1757)
- Henry Onslow (9 February 1757 – 25 July 1757)
- Edward Onslow (9 April 1758 – 18 October 1829), married on 6 March 1783 Marie Rosalie de Bourdeille and had issue.
- Henrietta Onslow (b. 18 March 1760, died in infancy)
In 1778, Lord Onslow sold Imber Court in Thames Ditton, and a large estate including farms and gardens, and the Imber Court Copper Mills.
The Earl died on 17 May 1814 aged 82 and was succeeded by his eldest son.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Burke's: 'Onslow'.
- ^ Sturgess, H.A.C. (1949). Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.: Temple Bar. Vol. 2, p.326.
- ^ a b c "Onslow, George (1731–1814), of Imber Court, Surrey". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ Davis, pp. 77, 87, 94, 99, 101, Appendix A.
- ^ 'The Onslows' at Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment.
References
- Philip J Burchett (1984). A Historical Sketch of THAMES DITTON. Surrey: Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents' Association. ISBN 0-904811-20-4.
- Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
- Capt John Davis, Historical Records of the Second Royal Surrey or Eleventh Regiment of Militia, London: Marcus Ward, 1877.
- TS Mercer (1970). More THAMES DITTON Tales and Scandals. Surrey: Ditton's Historical Research Society. ISBN 0-9501256-0-1.
- The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval Staff (1994). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. Genealogical Publishing Com. pp. 313–314.
- Barker, G. F. R. (2008). "Onslow, George, first earl of Onslow". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20790. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)