Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow
Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow ( born February 28, 1938 in Surrey, † 17 May, 2011 London) 1945-1971 Viscount Cranley, a British politician ( Conservative Party ).
Life and career
Onslow was the only son of William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow, and his first wife Pamela Dillon, a daughter of Eric Dillon, 19th Viscount Dillon. He attended Eton College and the Sorbonne.
Following Onslow served four years with the Life Guards and was used in Aden and Oman. During this time he discovered his interest in photography and has been professionally active in the field in 1960. He was admitted to the only photographer at a charity party by Jean Paul Getty. Two years later he transferred to the insurance sector. He was active in this area, among other things as an underwriter for Lloyd's.
As Onslow in 1971 inherited the title of Earl of Onslow, was the former estate of Clandon Park in Surrey, which had been until 1956 the family seat, re-opened by the National Trust after two years of renovations. Onslow had started work as an insurance broker and farmed the remaining 800 ha of land. He also moved to the left on the estate house of the Bailiffs.
He was Director ( Governor ) of the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, as well as the University College of the University of Buckingham. In the Surrey County Agricultural Society, he served as president and member of the Trusteeship Council ( Trustee ) operates. In the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society, he was also president. He was repeatedly High Steward of Guildford. He was for many years a member of the Lloyd's club in London.
Membership in the House of Lords
Onslow inherited the title in 1971 and the then associated seat in the House of Lords. He was one of the Hereditary Peers, after the House of Lords Act 1999 ( an action for which he abstained ) were elected and remained in the House of Lords. He belonged to the Conservative Party. A reform of the House of Lords, he did not support, but in the planned by the Labour government. As early as 1979 he had urged Margaret Thatcher to reform the House of Lords before a Labour government would do this. He preferred a solution, are selected in the two-thirds of the house.
He was a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights ( Joint Committee on Human Rights ) from July 2005 until his death and criticized in that capacity Home Secretary Jacqui Smith because of the measures proposed by the government extend the detention of terrorist suspects to 42 days.
On 8 February 2011 he took part in a vote last; on 29 March 2011 he enlisted last to speak.
Work in the public
Focus of political work Onslow were human rights, labor law and European policy.
He was an opponent of the death penalty. Onslow spoke out against discrimination against dark-skinned people in the Household Cavalry. He criticized the views of the British ex - minister Enoch Powell in terms of immigration policy and integration and remembered this because he was during his time as health minister, " one of the biggest supporters of immigration ".
He convinced the government to facilitate the creation of businesses, which are operated by employees. He joined a campaign by the Farm Workers ' Union, which turned against ruthless employer who had the intention to evict workers from their holiday homes in the country to sell them at high prices to commuters. Against the plan of the Thatcher government to burden children from rural residential areas with costs for the use of school buses, he sat down successfully.
After Michael Fagan, an unemployed family man who in July 1982 was able to penetrate into the private apartments of the Queen, as a result it could not be punished for trespassing, Onslow had a gap in the British penal system, and brought with support from the Government a draft legislation, to make this offense is punishable. Onslow argued that it could not be that, although the penetration in a message could be prosecuted, but not the intrusion into private premises of the monarch.
Onslow was one of the best-informed and most constructive critic of the government-backed Thatcher Wildlife and Countryside Bill. In 1985, he was replaced as President of the Open Spaces Society, as he defended the right of the army to train on the Salisbury Plain. Onslow spoke out against attempts by the British Archbishop Arthur Michael Ramsey, to modernize the Anglican liturgy.
Also, Onslow turned against the exaggerated and rigid interpretation and interpretation of EU directives, which would have had the closure of many slaughterhouses in the UK to order. He also voted against the Maastricht Treaty.
Onslow met twice on the satirical quiz show Have I Got News for You, as the only Hereditary Peer.
Family and death
Onslow married Robin Bullard 1964, the daughter of Major Robert Lee Bullard. They had three children, two daughters and a son. He died on 17 May 2011 at the age of 73 years after cancer; last he was in a wheelchair.
His titles were inherited by his son as Rupert Onslow, 8th Earl of Onslow.