22-586: Richard Onslow may refer to: Richard Onslow (Solicitor General) (1528–1571), Speaker of the House of Commons and Solicitor General Richard Onslow (Parliamentarian) (1601–1664), Member of the Long Parliament and the Cromwellian House of Lords, grandson of the above Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow (1654–1717), Speaker of the House of Commons and Chancellor of
44-566: A tomb monument was erected, that was restored in 1742 by his descendant, Arthur Onslow , himself a past Speaker. After the fall of the church in 1788, the monument was moved to the Abbey Church in Shrewsbury, where it remains. English House of Commons The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales ) from its development in
66-468: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Richard Onslow (Solicitor General) Richard Onslow (1528 – 2 April 1571) was a 16th-century English lawyer and politician who served as Solicitor General from 1566 to 1569 and Speaker of the House of Commons of England . (He was the first of two Richard Onslows and three Onslows to be elected Speaker.) He
88-621: Is the convention, Onslow spoke in opposition to his own appointment, and argued that the independence of the Speakership was incompatible with the Solicitor General's oath to the Queen; this gave his critics good excuse to oppose, but he was nevertheless eventually approved by 82 votes to 70, and became Speaker on 2 October 1566. He was Speaker until its dissolution in January 1567. Onslow may have been
110-622: The House of Lords by a writ of assistance. However, later the same year the Speaker of the Commons died, and the Privy Council chose Onslow to succeed him. At this period the appointment was effectively a Crown nomination, though theoretically the House of Commons had a free choice; Onslow was the royal candidate but was opposed, the only occasion on which this happened during the Elizabethan period . As
132-404: The House of Tudor in the early sixteenth century as Henry VII grew fiscally independent. The Reformation Parliament , called by Henry VIII after Cardinal Wolsey failed to secure a divorce from Catherine of Aragon and sitting from 1529 to 1536 made laws affecting all aspects of national life, but especially with regard to religious matters previously reserved to the church. Though acting at
154-675: The Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council, meeting for short periods, included ecclesiastics, noblemen, and representatives of the counties (known as " knights of the shire "). The chief duty of the council was to approve taxes proposed by the Crown. In many cases, however, the council demanded the redress of the people's grievances before proceeding to vote on taxation. Thus, it developed legislative powers. The first parliament to invite representatives of
176-470: The 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Ireland , that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom . The Parliament of England developed from
198-558: The Commons did act with increasing boldness. During the Good Parliament of 1376, the Commons appointed Peter de la Mare to convey to the Lords their complaints of heavy taxes, demands for an accounting of the royal expenditures, and criticism of the King's management of the military. The Commons even proceeded to impeach some of the King's ministers. Although Mare was imprisoned for his actions,
220-560: The Commons over issues such as taxation, religion, and royal powers. The differences between Charles I and Parliament were great, and resulted in the English Civil War , in which the armed forces of Parliament were victorious. In December 1648 the House of Commons was purged by the New Model Army , which was supposed to be subservient to Parliament. Pride's Purge was the only military coup in English history. Subsequently, Charles I
242-464: The Commons still remained much less powerful than the Lords and the Crown . The influence of the Crown was increased by the civil wars of the late fifteenth century, which significantly diminished the power of the great noblemen. Both houses of Parliament held little power during the ensuing years, and the absolute supremacy of the Sovereign was restored. The domination of the monarch grew further under
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#1732876648463264-761: The Exchequer, grandson of the above Lt.-Gen. Richard Onslow (British Army officer) (died 1760), Governor of Fort William and Plymouth Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow (1713–1776), Member of Parliament for Guildford and Lord Lieutenant of Surrey Adm. Sir Richard Onslow, 1st Baronet (1741–1817), British naval leader distinguished at the Battle of Camperdown Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow (1876–1945), diplomat, parliamentary secretary and government minister Richard Onslow (Royal Navy officer) (1904–1975), British admiral Richard Onslow (priest) (1776–1849), Archdeacon of Worcester [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
286-584: The author of Arguments Related to the Sea Landes and Salt Shores . He married Catherine Harding, by whom he had two sons and five daughters, including Edward , ancestor of the Earls of Onslow , and Cicely, who married Sir Humphrey Winch . Onslow died from 'pestilential fever' at Harnage near Shrewsbury, after visiting a relative in the town, in April 1571 and was buried in the then St Chad's Church in Shrewsbury where
308-492: The behest and under the direction of the King and his leading minister, Thomas Cromwell , Parliament was acquiring universal legal competence and responsibility for all matters affecting the realm. When the House of Stuart came to the English throne in 1603, the dependence of the Crown on Parliament for sufficient revenue to fund the operations of government returned as an issue and point of leverage. The first two Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I , provoked conflicts with
330-533: The benefits of having a single voice to represent the Commons were recognized, and the office which became known as Speaker of the House of Commons was thus created. Mare was soon released after the death of King Edward III and in 1377 became the second speaker of the Commons. During the reign of the next monarch, Richard II , the Commons once again began to impeach errant ministers of the Crown. They began to insist that they could control both taxation and public expenditures. Despite such gains in authority, however,
352-438: The major towns was Montfort's Parliament in 1265. At the " Model Parliament " of 1295, representatives of the boroughs (including towns and cities) were admitted. Thus, it became settled practice that each county send two knights of the shire, and that each borough send two burgesses . At first the burgesses were almost entirely powerless, and while the right to representation of each English county quickly became indisputable,
374-479: The monarch could enfranchise or disfranchise boroughs at pleasure. Any show of independence by burgesses would thus be likely to lead to the exclusion of their towns from Parliament. The knights of the shire were in a better position, although less powerful than their noble and clerical counterparts in what was still a unicameral Parliament. The division of the Parliament of England into two houses occurred during
396-404: The reign of Edward III : in 1341 the Commons met separately from the nobility and clergy for the first time, creating in effect an Upper Chamber and a Lower Chamber, with the knights and burgesses sitting in the latter. They formed what became known as the House of Commons, while the clergy and nobility became the House of Lords . Although they remained subordinate to both the Crown and the Lords,
418-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Onslow&oldid=968379992 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
440-564: Was Recorder of London in 1563. From 1557 to 1558 and 1562 to his death in 1571 he was Member of Parliament for Steyning , a tiny borough in Sussex . In 1559 he was elected MP for Aldborough, north Yorkshire . His religious sympathies were with the Puritan party, and the Spanish ambassador described him as a "furious heretic" . In 1566 he was appointed Solicitor General , and was summoned to attend
462-517: Was beheaded and the Upper House was abolished. The unicameral Parliament that remained was later referred to by critics as the Rump Parliament , as it consisted only of a small selection of Members of Parliament approved by the army – some of whom were soldiers themselves. In 1653, when leading figures in this Parliament began to disagree with the army, it was dissolved by Oliver Cromwell . However,
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#1732876648463484-572: Was born in Shrewsbury , a younger son of Roger Onslow and his first wife Margaret Poyner. Onslow entered the Inner Temple in 1545, from which he was briefly expelled in 1556 with several other members for involvement in an affray but was readmitted after an apology and a spell in the Fleet Prison and was a Bencher (giving power to call graduates to the bar) in 1559, and Governor from 1564 to 1566. He
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