Osborne Baronets

There have been three Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Osborne, two in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Ireland. One creation is extant as of 2010.

The Osborne Baronetcy, of Kiveton in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 July 1620. For more information on this creation, see the Duke of Leeds.

The Osborne, later Osborn Baronetcy, of Chicksands in the County of Bedford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 11 February 1662. For more information this creation, see Osborn Baronets.

The Osborne Baronetcy, of Ballentaylor in the County of Tipperary, and Ballylemon in the county of Wexford, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 15 October 1629 for Richard Osborne. The second and seventh Baronets both represented County Waterford in the Irish House of Commons, the eighth Baronet represented Carysfort while the ninth Baronet sat for Carysfort and Enniskillen. The current British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is the heir apparent to the baronetcy.

Contents 1 Osborne Baronets, of Kiveton (1620) 2 Osborne, later Osborn Baronets, of Chicksands (1662) 3 Osborne Baronets, of Ballintaylor and Ballylemon (1629) 4 References

Osborne Baronets, of Kiveton (1620)

see Duke of Leeds

Osborne, later Osborn Baronets, of Chicksands (1662)

• see Osborn Baronets

Osborne Baronets, of Ballintaylor and Ballylemon (1629)

• Sir Richard Osborne, 1st Baronet (d. c. 1667)
• Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet (d. 1685)
• Sir John Osborne, 3rd Baronet (c. 1645-1713)
• Sir Richard Osborne, 4th Baronet (c. 1714)
• Sir Thomas Osborne, 5th Baronet (c. 1715)
• Sir Nicholas Osborne, 6th Baronet (c. 1685-1719)
• Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet (c. 1697-1743)
• Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet (d. 1783)
• Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet (1757–1821)
• Sir William Osborne, 10th Baronet (1817–1824)
• Sir Henry Osborne, 11th Baronet (d. 1837)
• Sir Daniel Toler Osborne, 12th Baronet (1783–1853)

• Sir William Osborne, 13th Baronet DL and JP (16 October 1805–2 July 1875). Osborne was the son of Sir Daniel Osborne, 12th Baronet, and Lady Harriet Le Poer, daughter of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace. He married Maria (d. 25 October 1875), daughter of William Thompson, of Clonfin, County Longford, on 22 July 1842. They had no children. He died in July 1875, aged 69, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Charles.^[1]

• Sir Charles Stanley Osborne, 14th Baronet (1825–1879)
• Sir Francis Osborne, 15th Baronet (1856–1948)

• Sir George Francis Osborne, 16th Baronet MC (27 July 1894–21 July 1960). Osborne was the son of Sir Francis Osborne, 15th Baronet, and Kathleen Eliza Whitfield. He was educated at Repton School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and fought in the First World War, where he was twice wounded, mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross, eventually gaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Sussex Regiment. Osborne married as his second wife Mary Grace Horn (died 1987), daughter of Clement Samuel Horn, of Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, Sussex, on 27 February 1938. They had two sons and two daughters. He died in July 1960, aged 65, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Peter.^[2]

• Sir Peter George Osborne, 17th Baronet (b. 1943)
  • George Gideon Oliver Osborne, heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son (b. 1971) who is the Chancellor of the Exchequer since May 2010
    • Heir apparent's heir, Luke Osborne, (b. 2001)

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets