Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet
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Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, PC, MP (d. 30 September 1783) was an Irish baronet and politician.
Biography
The son of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and wife Editha Proby, he succeeded in the baronetcy on 11 April 1743.
Osborne served as High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1750 and served as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Carysfort between 1761 and 1768, for Dungarvan between 1768 and 1783 and for Carysfort again in 1783, and was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1770.
Marriage and issue
Sir William Osborne married (lic. 20 March 1749) Elizabeth Christmas, daughter of Thomas Christmas MP, of Whitfield, Co. Waterford and had eight children:
- Elizabeth Osborne (1754 - November 1783), married on 19 March 1774 as his second wife John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort (12 August 1751 - 7 April 1828)
- John Proby Osborne (1755 - December 1787)
- Revd. William Osborne, died unmarried without issue
- Ada Osborne, married her cousin Capt. Thomas Christmas
- unnamed daughter, died an infant
- Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet (1757 - 3 June 1821)
- Sir Henry Osborne, 11th Baronet (1759 - 27 October 1837)
- Rt. Hon. Charles Osborne (1760 - 5 September 1817)
See also
Sources
- G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 71.
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 3031.
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| Parliament of Ireland | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Richard Hull Stephen Trotter |
Member of Parliament for Carysfort 1761–1769 With: William Mayne |
Succeeded by Sir Robert Deane William Mayne |
| Preceded by Robert Boyle-Walsingham Thomas Carew |
Member of Parliament for Dungarvan 1768–1783 With: Robert Carew John Bennett Captain Godfrey Greene |
Succeeded by Marcus Beresford Captain Godfrey Greene |
| Preceded by Warden Flood Sir Thomas Osborne |
Member of Parliament for Carysfort October 1783 – November 1783 With: Sir Thomas Osborne |
Succeeded by John Proby Osborne Sir Thomas Osborne |
| Baronetage of Ireland | ||
| Preceded by Sir John Osborne |
Baronet (of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon) 1743–1783 |
Succeeded by Sir Thomas Osborne |
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