for India, a post he retained until 1900, and was then once again Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1900 and 1903 (from 1902 to 1903 under the premiership of Arthur Balfour). In 1903 he entered Balfour's cabinet as President of the Board of Agriculture and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year. He remained at the Board of Agriculture until the government fell in 1905. From 1905 to 1911 he was Lord Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords. He was also President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1905 to 1906. His death was considered a loss to the [RSPB]. Family Lord Onslow married Florence Coulston Gardner, daughter of Alan Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner, in 1875. They had two sons and two daughters: Lady Dorothy Evelyn Augusta Onslow, married Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (later Baron Irwin and Earl of Halifax) on 21 September 1909. Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow (born 23 August 1876, died 9 June 1945), married Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick Bampfylde, the only daughter of Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baron Poltimore, on 22 February 1906. Lady Gwendolen Florence Mary Onslow (born 22 July 1881, died 16 February 1966), married Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness (later Earl of Iveagh). Victor Alexander Herbert Huia Onslow (born 13 November 1890, died 27 June 1922), married Muriel Wheldale on 3 February 1919. He was the first child of a governor to be born in the country; hence the Māori name Huia. He died sometime after suffering a spinal accident when he dived into an Austrian lake in the Dolomites on 16 July 1911. Lord Onslow died at Hendon, Middlesex, in October 1911, aged 58. He was succeeded in the earldom by his elder son, Richard. The Dowager Countess of Onslow died in August 1934. References External links 1853 births 1911 deaths Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Governors-General of New Zealand 4 Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George People educated at Eton College Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Members of London County Council Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Deputy Lieutenants of Surrey Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Trade 19th-century New Zealand politicians