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Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow

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Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow (born 28 February 1938) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

He was known as Viscount Cranley from 1945 to 1971, and he was educated at Eton and Oxford University.

He is one of the hereditary peers who have been elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. He sits on the Conservative benches.

He has appeared on Have I Got News for You twice, and remains the only hereditary peer ever to do so. He is a supporter of reform of the House of Lords, but not as proposed by the present Government.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl of Onslow
1971–Present
Succeeded by
Incumbent