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ONSLOW, THOMAS, 2ND EARL OF ONSLOW, son of George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (qv); b. 15 Mar 1754; in school lists 1764-71; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 9 Nov 1771; MA 1773; MP Rye 20 Apr 1775-84, Guildford 1784-1806; Outranger, Windsor Great Park, from 1792; styled Viscount Cranley 1801-14; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Onslow 17 May 1814; commonly known as “Little Tom Onslow”; an eccentric with a passion for driving four-in-hand; DL Surrey 1776, Vice-Lieut. 1812-4; Col., 2nd Royal Surrey Militia 2 Jan 1797 (still 1808); m. 1st, 20 Dec 1776 Arabella, third dau. of Eaton Mainwaring-Ellerker, Risby Park, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 13 Feb 1783 Charlotte, widow of Thomas Duncombe (qv), and dau. of William Hale, King’s Walden, Herts.; d. 22 Feb 1827. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.