Denzil Onslow (British Army officer)

Colonel (later General) Denzil Onslow (12 September 1770 – 21 August 1838) was an English amateur cricketer who made nine known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1796 to 1807.

He was born in 1770 at Marylebone, London, the son of the British Member of Parliament Middleton Onslow.

Onslow was a general in the Grenadier Guards. His daughter, Amelia, married Thomas Chamberlayne, who played cricket for Hampshire; their son Tankerville Chamberlayne also had a brief career as a cricketer, and was Member of Parliament for the Southampton constituency three times.[1] The main road through Bevois Valley was named Onslow Road after Onslow as was nearby Denzil Avenue.[1]

In 1833, he was living at Great Staughton and was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.[2] He died in 1838 at Huntingdon.

Cricket career

He was mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) but also represented other XIs.[3]

gollark: I think the "random facts about taxes and whatever" life skills should be learned independently and the vague general stuff like "working in teams" would be best learned through actually doing it seriously.
gollark: I would of course replace the English lesson badness with bringing arbitrary books in to read yourself.
gollark: School but instead of reading random poems you memorise 'life skills' would be quite ae ae ae, as they say.
gollark: If I were to redesign school, it would be much less regimented (you would not be grouped by year etc.), more flexible (an actually sane schedule and more/earlier choice of subjects), and focus on more general skills (not overly specific reading of books, or learning procedures for specific maths things, or that sort of thing). Additionally, more project-based work and more group stuff.
gollark: Those are specific uses of some of those things, yes. Which is why those are important. Although programming isn't intensely mathy and interest is trivial.

References
  1. Leonard, A.G.K. (1984). Stories of Southampton Streets. Paul Cave Publications. p. 74. ISBN 0-86146-041-3.
  2. "No. 19019". The London Gazette. 5 February 1833. p. 246.
  3. Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862


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