Richard Onslow 1654-1717
Sir Richard ONSLOW 3rd bart 1654-1717
Biographical Note
Sir Richard Onslow of Clandon in the County of location: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. Matriculated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1671. Admitted to the Inner Temple in 1674, but never called to the bar.
He married Elizabeth (bap. 1661, d. 1718), the daughter and heir of Sir Henry Tulse, grocer, of Lothbury, London, on 31 August 1676.
Grandson of Sir Richard Onslow (1601-64),
Books
Early Armorial bookplate. Franks: *169 and *170
Arms: Onslow, quartering Stapylton ? Carr, Bond, Houghton ? Strangwayes, and Tre- lawny? with Tulse on an escutcheon.
Characteristic Markings
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.