Cranley Onslow

Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking (8 June 1926 – 13 March 2001), was an English politician who served as the Conservative MP for Woking from 1964 to 1997. He was a British peer from 1997 until his death in 2001.

Family background Onslow was born in Wandsworth, London, in 1926. He was related to the Earl of Onslow, and was named for one of the subsidiary titles of the Earldom: Viscount Cranley. His parents were Francis Robert Douglas Onslow and Mabel Strachan.

Political career Onslow resigned from the civil service in 1960 and became active in politics, first being elected to Dartford Rural District Council and later to Kent County Council. Onslow was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Knight Commander (KCMG) for "political service" in the 1993 New Year Honours and upon stepping down from Parliament in 1997 his life peerage was announced in the Resignation Honours, and he was raised to the peerage as Baron Onslow of Woking, of Woking in the County of Surrey.

Personal life In 1955, he married Lady June Hay, daughter of George Hay, 14th Earl of Kinnoull. They had four children.

Onslow died at a hospital in Hereford on 13 March 2001, at the age of 74.