Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow

Richard William Allan Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow GBE GStJ PC (born August 23, 1876 - June 9, 1945 ) was a British diplomat and politician of the Liberal Party , who was Paymaster General between 1928 and 1929 .

Life

Family, diplomat and Earl of Onslow

Onslow was a descendant of Sir Richard Onslow, 2nd Baronet , who was made Baron Onslow in 1716 , and George Onslow, 4th Baron Onslow , who was made Earl of Onslow in 1801 . His father was William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow , who was Governor of New Zealand between 1889 and 1892 and Minister of Agriculture in 1903 (President of the Board of Agriculture) .

Richard Onslow joined the foreign service after finishing school in 1901 and was initially an attaché at the embassy in Madrid in 1902 . He then served as 3rd secretary at the embassy in Tangier in 1903, at the embassy in Saint Petersburg in 1904 and at the embassy in Berlin in 1907, where he also became 2nd secretary in 1907.

After a return to the UK Onslow served from 1909 to 1911 as deputy private secretary to Foreign Minister Edward Gray , and from 1911 to 1913 as a private secretary of the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Ministry ( Foreign Office ) . As such, he was in 1910 Schreiber (Clerk) and 1913-1914 deputy clerk of the Foreign Ministry.

After his father's death on October 23, 1911, he inherited the title of 5th Earl of Onslow and thereby also became a member of the House of Lords .

World War I and Paymaster General

During the First World War Onslow did military service with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France and was promoted to captain in 1916 and major in 1918 . Shortly afterwards he was promoted to colonel in 1918 and as such was first deputy director for staff services in the expeditionary forces and between 1918 and 1919 a member of the British military mission in Paris . In 1918 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services .

After retiring from active military service, he was Lord-in-Waiting of the Royal Household from 1919 to 1920 and then from 1920 to 1921 Civil Lord of the Admiralty . During the tenure of Prime Minister David Lloyd George , he served first as Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Agriculture in 1921 and then from 1921 to 1923 as Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Health. During the tenure of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin he was from 1923 to 1924 Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Education (Board of Education) .

During the second term of Prime Minister Baldwin Onslow was since November 1924 Undersecretary in the War Office ( War Office ) and Vice President of the Army Council (Army Council) . As such, he was a British delegate at a first disarmament conference in Geneva in 1925 and became a member of the Privy Council in 1926 . After a cabinet reshuffle, he was Paymaster General from 1928 to the end of Baldwin's tenure on June 4, 1929 .

Most recently he acted from 1931 until his death in 1945 as Chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords. Onslow, who was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1938, was also Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John and High Steward of Guildford .

His marriage to Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bampfylde, a daughter of Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baron Poltimore , on February 22, 1906 , had two children, including William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow , who after his death was the 6th Earl of Onslow inherited.

Web links

• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leighrayment
• Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
William Onslow	Earl of Onslow 1911-1945	William Onslow