Guildford James Hillier Mainwaring-Ellerker-Onslow (29 March 1814 – 20 August 1882) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1858 to 1874. Guildford Onslow was the second of five sons of Colonel

Thomas Cranley Onslow Thomas Cranley Onslow (7 October 1778 – 7 July 1861), of Stoke Park, Guildford, and Upton House, Hampshire, was a British politician and British Army officer, the second son of Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow.''Burke's'': 'Onslow'. He marrie ...

, whose father in turn was a wealthy late-18th-century British royal-family friend and politician,

Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow (15 March 1754 – 22 February 1827) was an English nobleman and courtier who succeeded to his title in 1814. Originally the Honourable Tom Onslow, he was styled Viscount Cranley from 1801 to 1814. He died in 1 ...

. His flamboyant name –

Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...

– is the county town of the county of

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

and his family owned land and businesses in the county – was bolstered by the wealth of the father of his mother Susannah, Nathaniel Hillier, who owned the estate of Stoke Park House, Stoke-next-Guildford, Surrey. His father started a relatively briefly second-ranking branch of the Earl of Onslow's family, the land owning and land-developing heirs of much of the land of the Earls of Surrey which in 1870 became the senior branch of the family on the accession to the earldom of Guildford Onslow's nephew. He was educated at Eton College and joined his father's regiment, the Scots Fusilier Guards. He reached the rank of captain and also served in the

11th Regiment of Foot 11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. Name "Eleven" derives from the Old English ', which is first attested i ...

. He was a deputy lieutenant and J.P. for Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
/ref> In October 1858, Onslow was elected at a by-election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MP) for

. He was returned at the next three general elections, holding the seat when Guildford's parliamentary representation was reduced to one seat at the 1868 general election, but at the 1874 general election he lost the seat to the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

candidate, his sixth cousin Denzil Onslow. In 1861 he assumed by Royal Licence the additional surnames of Mainwaring and Ellerker. Onslow died at the age of 68. Onslow married a cousin, Rosa Anne Onslow, daughter of General Denzil Onslow of Staughton House, Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire (since 1974 Cambridgeshire).

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Onslow, Guildford 1814 births 1882 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politics of Guildford UK MPs 1868–1874 People educated at Eton College Deputy Lieutenants of Lincolnshire Scots Guards officers