Brewer's: Onslow

invoked by Thomson in his Autumn, was Arthur Onslow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, termed clarum ac venerabilc nomen. It was said of him that “his knowledge of the Constitution was only equalled by his attachment to it.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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