Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow
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Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, Bt, (born 28 February 1938) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was known as Viscount Cranley from 1945 to 1971, and he was educated at Eton and the Sorbonne.
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[edit] Public life
[edit] Politics
He is one of the hereditary peers who have been elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. He sits on the Conservative benches.
He is a supporter of reform of the House of Lords, but not as proposed by the present Government.
He has been a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights since July 2005,[1] and in this capacity strongly criticised Jacqui Smith over the government's proposed extension to detention of terror suspects to 42 days.[2]
[edit] Appearances
He has appeared on Have I Got News for You twice, and remains the only hereditary peer ever to do so.
[edit] Family and personal
He is the only son of the 6th Earl of Onslow and his first wife, Pamela (née Dillon).
Onslow married his wife Robin (née Bullard) in 1964,[3] daughter of Ann, Lady Aberconway. They have three children:
- Rupert Onslow, Viscount Cranley (Rupert Charles William Bullard Onslow, b. 16 June 1967)
- wife: Leigh (née Jones-Fenleigh)
- daughter: Olympia Patricia May-Rose Onslow, (b. 7 July 2003)[4]
- wife: Leigh (née Jones-Fenleigh)
- Lady Arabella Onslow (b. 1970)
- Lady Charlotte Emma Dorothy Onslow (b. 1977)
[edit] References
- ^ JCHR on UK Parliament website
- ^ BBC Politics
- ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p6635.htm#i66349 accessed 8 June 2007
- ^ http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/j12003.html accessed 8 June 2007
[edit] External links
- Open letter by the Earl to David Cameron, on the subject of civil liberties
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| Preceded by William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow |
Earl of Onslow 1971–Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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