The Earl of Onslow has died, one of the most colourful of the hereditary peers and an unpredictable pursuer of many different causes, who survived to sit in the upper house by a vote of his fellow members.

Lord Strathclyde, leader of the House of Lords, looks back at a man of "intelligence, humour and kindness."

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