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The senior branch of the Onslow family continues to own and manage their agricultural business and the
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project, Clandon House was built by Onslow possibly as a result of his wife's slavery-derived fortune. The slave plantation which
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He represented a continuous succession of constituencies in the
Parliament of England and Great Britain. He first entered Parliament in 1702, aged 22 or 23, as the MP for
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by this Lord Onslow, but the 3rd Lord Onslow had its interiors finished. It features a two-storey Marble Hall and marble chimney and other pieces by the
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Clandon Park House and its 7-acre garden, was gifted to the Nation in 1956, a
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As Lord Onslow he was a leading participant in an insurance business known as
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