Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow

Profile & Legacies Summary

1679 - 1740

Biography

MP for Gatton, Chichester, Bletchingley and Surrey 1702-1717. 'He married a West Indian heiress, with whose money he rebuilt Clandon by Leoni.'

The estate of Thomas Lord Onslow was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 1850 acres of land in St Thomas-in-the-East.

Sources

History of Parliament online

The portrait is from Onslow family at Clandon Park.

'A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Elizabeth Knight

Children

Richard

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

- 1740 [EY] → Owner

Whitehall [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Clandon Park [Built]

Details

description →

Palladian mansion built over an existing Elizabethan house in 1730-1733 to designs of Giacomo Leoni by Thomas Lord Onslow, with the slavery-derived fortune of his wife Elizabeth Knight. Fire...