| 词条 | Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow |
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Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow {{postnominals|country=GBR|GBE|PC|DL}} (23 August 1876 – 9 June 1945), styled Viscount Cranley until 1911, was a British peer, diplomat, parliamentary secretary and government minister. Background and educationRichard Onslow was the son of William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow and the Honourable Florence Coulston Gardner. He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1901. Diplomatic careerHe became an Attaché to Madrid a year later, Third Secretary to Tangier in 1903 and to St Petersburg in 1904 and Second Secretary to Berlin in 1907. In 1909, he became assistant private secretary to Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He then held a number of positions in the Foreign Office as a clerk in 1910, private secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1911–13 and assistant clerk from 1913-14. Military careerOnslow joined the army on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was mentioned in despatches three times, received an OBE and the French Legion of Honour. In later years he was Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3rd Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and Honorary Colonel of the 30th (Surrey) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery.[1][2] Political careerOnslow had succeeded to his father's title and seat in the House of Lords in 1911. After the war, he was a Lord-in-waiting from 1919 to 1920, a Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1920 to 1921, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in 1921, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health from 1921 to 1923, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education from 1923 to 1924, Under-Secretary of State for War and Vice-President of the Army Council from 1924 to 1928, and Chairman of the Committees and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1931-44. Onslow was also President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1905 to 1906[3] and President of the Zoological Society of London from 1936 to 1942.[4] WritingsOnslow devoted much of his retirement to writing, producing The Empress Maud (1939); Sixty-three Years: Diplomacy, the Great War and Politics, with Notes on Travel, Sport and Other Things (1939), which went through several editions; and The Dukes of Normandy and Their Origin, which was completed in the year of his death and published posthumously. FamilyLord Onslow married the Honourable Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bampfylde, the only daughter of Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baron Poltimore, on 22 February 1906. They had two children:[5]
Lord Onslow died on 9 June 1945, aged 68, and was succeeded in the peerage by his only son. As Dowager Countess of Onslow, Violet gave the future Queen Elizabeth II a diamond and ruby butterfly brooch as a wedding gift in 1947.[6] She died on 23 October 1954. References1. ^Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953. {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box | title=Lord-in-waiting | before=The Earl of Jersey | after=The Earl of Lucan | years=1919–1920}}{{s-bef|before=The Earl of Lytton}}{{s-ttl|title=Civil Lord of the Admiralty|years= 1920–1921 }}{{s-aft|after=Bolton Eyres-Monsell}}2. ^Army LIst 1927–39. 3. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=486|title = Royal Statistical Society Presidents|publisher= Royal Statistical Society|accessdate =6 August 2010}} 4. ^ZSL (1995). The Zoological Society of London. The Charter and Byelaws. 5. ^The Peerage, entry for 5th Earl of Onslow 6. ^{{cite web|title=The Diamond and Ruby Butterfly Brooch|url=http://queensjewelvault.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-diamond-and-ruby-butterfly-brooch.html|publisher=From Her Majesty's Jewel Vault blog}} |-{{s-vac|last=Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen}}{{s-ttl|title=Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries|years= 5 April–7 April 1921 }}{{s-aft|after=The Earl of Ancaster}}{{s-bef|before=Hon. Waldorf Astor}}{{s-ttl|title=Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health|years= 1921–1923 }}{{s-aft|after=Lord Eustace Percy}}{{s-bef|before=Lord Eustace Percy}}{{s-ttl|title=Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education|years= 1923–1924 }}{{s-aft|after=Morgan Jones}}{{succession box | title=Under-Secretary of State for War | before=Clement Attlee | after=The Duke of Sutherland | years=1924–1928}}{{succession box | title=Paymaster-General | before=The Duke of Sutherland | after=The Lord Arnold | years=1928–1929}}{{s-aca}}{{s-bef|before=Sir Francis Powell, Bt}}{{s-ttl|title=President of the Royal Statistical Society|years=1905–1906}}{{s-aft|after=Sir Richard Martin, Bt}}{{s-reg|uk}}{{succession box | title=Earl of Onslow | before=William Hillier Onslow | after=William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow | years=1911–1945}}{{s-end}}{{Paymaster General}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Onslow, Richard Onslow, 5th Earl}} 15 : 1876 births|1945 deaths|Bailiffs Grand Cross of the Order of St John|British Army personnel of World War I|Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting|Deputy Lieutenants of Surrey|Earls of Onslow|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society|Presidents of the Zoological Society of London|United Kingdom Paymasters General|People educated at Eton College|Alumni of New College, Oxford|Lords of the Admiralty |
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