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
.
Public life
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, and in this capacity strongly
criticised
Jacqui Smith over the
government's proposed extension to detention of terror suspects to
42 days.
Appearances
He has appeared on
Have I
Got News for You twice, and remains the only hereditary
peer ever to do so.
Family and personal
He is the only son of the
6th Earl of Onslow and
his first wife,
Pamela .
Onslow married his wife Robin (née Bullard) in 1964, 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)
- Lady Arabella Onslow (b.
1970)
- Lady Charlotte Emma Dorothy Onslow (b. 1977)
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