[Illustration] Adam de Weston, living in 1205, was the ancestor of
this family, which has been from a very early period connected with
Surrey. In the reign of Edward II., the Westons were of
West-Clandon, and also of Weston in Albury, and of Send and Ockham,
in this county. The last was sold in the latter part of the
seventeenth century, and West-Horsley inherited by the will of
William Nicholas, Esq. in 1749.
See Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. iii. p. 41; and Gent. Mag. for
1789, p. 223; for a notice of this family, as well as of the
extinct family of the same name, of Sutton, in this county, see
also Gent. Mag. for 1800, p. 606.
ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron or between three leopard's heads erased
argent, crowned or_.
Present Representative, Henry Weston, Esq.
ONSLOW OF WEST-CLANDON, EARL OF ONSLOW 1801; BARON 1716; BARONET
1660.
[Illustration] Although the foundation of the consequence of this
family was laid by Richard Onslow, a celebrated lawyer of the reign
of Elizabeth, yet he was sprung from an old gentle family seated at
Onslow in Shropshire, as far back as the time of Richard I., and
probably much earlier. The first recorded ancestor is John de
Ondeslowe, whose grandson, Warin, was father of "Roger de Ondeslow
juxta Shrewsbury," whose son Thomas was living in the twelfth of
Edward II. 1318. Richard Onslow became Speaker of the House of
Commons, and died in 1571. He was the first of his family connected
with Surrey, by his marriage with Catherine, daughter and heir of
Richard Harding, of Knoll, in this county, in the year 1554.
West-Clandon was purchased in 1641 by Sir Richard Onslow, created a
Baronet in 1660; the ancient family estate of Onslow having been
sold by Edward Onslow in 1617.
Younger Branches. Onslow of Altham in the county of Lancaster,
Baronet 1797, descended from the next brother of the Right Hon.
Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1726 to
1761. Onslow of Staughton, in the county of Huntingdon, descended
from the second son of Sir Richard Onslow, the first Baronet.
See Brydges's Collins, vol. v. p. 461; Manning and Bray's Surrey,
vol. ii. p. 723; and Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, p. 90,
corrected by the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris.
ARMS.--_Argent, a fess gules between six Cornish choughs proper_.
Present Representative, Arthur George Onslow, third Earl of
Onslow.