Richard Onslow 1654-1717

Sir Richard ONSLOW 1st Baron Onslow 1654-1717

Biographical Note

Sir Richard Onslow of Clandon in the County of Surrey. Speaker of the House of Commons 1708-1710. Created Baron Onslow 1716.

The eldest son of Sir Arthur Onslow, second baronet (1622–1688), politician, of Knowle and West Clandon, Surrey, and his wife, Mary, second daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Foot, first baronet, mayor of London. He married Elizabeth (bap. 1661, d. 1718), the daughter and heir of Sir Henry Tulse, grocer, of Lothbury, London, on 31 August 1676.

Matriculated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1671. Admitted to the Inner Temple in 1674, but never called to the bar.

Grandson of Sir Richard Onslow (1601-64)

Books

Early Armorial bookplate. Franks: *169 and *170

Arms: Onslow, quartering Stapylton? Carr, Bond, Houghton? Strangwayes, and Trelawny? with Tulse on an escutcheon.

Sources

• Ellis, Kathryn. "Onslow, Richard, first Baron Onslow (1654–1717), speaker of the House of Commons." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.