Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, KCMG, PC (8 June 1926 – 13 March 2001) was a British politician and served as the Conservative MP for Woking from 1964 to 1997, and a British Peer from 1997 until his death in 2001.

[1] He was related to the Earl of Onslow, and was named for one of the subsidiary titles of the Earldom: Viscount Cranley.

[1] Once elected, Onslow demonstrated his right wing credentials by calling for lower taxes on the middle class and a reduction in third world aid.

In this post, he conveyed to Mrs Thatcher the desire of backbenchers that Leon Brittan should resign over the Westland affair and in the 1990 leadership contest that many backbenchers wanted a broader choice of candidates, contributing to her decision to drop out.

[1] Having been sworn of the Privy Council in the 1988 New Year Honours,[3] Onslow was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Knight Commander (KCMG) for "political service" in the 1993 New Year Honours[4] and upon stepping down from Parliament in 1997 his life peerage was announced in the Resignation Honours[5] and he was raised to the peerage as Baron Onslow of Woking, of Woking in the County of Surrey.