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Denzil Onslow of Stoughton

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129:) from his first cousin, Richard Manning. He became instead a commissioner of stamp duties until 1757, and then of the salt office until his death in 1765. In 1764, the Treasury was inquiring into his arrears as Paymaster of the Works, and he died owing over £1500 (equivalent to £258,982 in 2023) to the Treasury, a debt still unsettled in 1783. 120:
He was questioned over errors in his Post Office accounts in 1748, but remained paymaster until 1755. In 1753, he inherited Kevington Hall (which has been remodelled internally into the county primary school of
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succeeded to a peerage. Elected again in 1741, he was a consistent supporter of the Government, and was appointed in 1743 as Paymaster of the
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He was the son of Richard Onslow (d. 1719) and Sarah Manning, and grandson of Sir Henry Onslow, of Drungewick, who was a younger son of
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A member of a junior branch of the Onslow family, which held a powerful Parliamentary interest in
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made incompatible his seat on the Board of Works with a place in Parliament.
67:, he married Anne Middleton, the daughter of his second cousin Anne and 44:
was a British politician. A member of the influential Onslow family of
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when the latter wished to enter Parliament on the family interest at
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Guildford
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Denzil Onslow (of Stoughton)
Mickleham, Surrey
Surrey
Sir Richard Onslow
Surrey
Thomas Middleton
Middleton Onslow
Richard Onslow
Post Office
Guildford
Richard
Works
Place Act 1742
St Mary Cray
Greater London





"Onslow, Denzil (c.1698-1765), of Mickleham, Surrey"
"England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
Grade II*
Historic England
"Details from listed building database (1359374)"
National Heritage List for England
Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica
Parliament of Great Britain
Richard Onslow
Hon. Richard Onslow

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