ONSLOW (George, 1731-1814, Baron, 1776, and 1st Earl 1801) and DYSON (Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Clerk of the House of Commons, 1748)

Signatures from a document as Lords of the Treasury, n.d. but 1768 -

Onslow, son of Speaker Onslow, was embroiled in the controversy over John Wilkes, and moved that his re-election for Middlesex in 1769 be declared invalid. He was present at the secret marriage of the Prince of Wales to Mrs Fitzherbert in 1785.
Dyson "was nicknamed 'Mungo' (the ubiquitous negro slave in Isaac Bickerstaffe's 'Padlock') from his omnipresence in parliamentary business" (DNB). He discontinued the practice of selling the subordinate clerkships in his office. He was a friend of the novelist Richardson and settled a pension on Mark Akenside, the poet and physician.

Item Date:  1774

Stock No:  51708      £75

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