Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats (27 March 1785 – 24 May 1871) was a British politician and writer.
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He was the son of Oswald Mosley (17 March 1761 - 27 July 1789), son of Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet, of Ancoats (1732 - 29 September 1798), created 1st Baronet Mosley, of Ancoats, in the Baronetage of Great Britain, on 8 June 1781, and wife (married 7 April 1760) Elizabeth Bayley (died 15 October 1797), daughter of James Bayley of Withington, Herefordshire (1705–1769) and Anne Peploe (1702–1769), daughter of Samuel Peploe. His father was the son of Nicholas Mosley (born 1734) and Elizabeth Parker.
He had four sisters: Penelope Mosley (died 30 August 1812), married on 22 December 1798 to Sir Henry Every, 9th Baronet, of Egginton (4 June 1777 - 28 December 1855), son of Sir Edward Every, 8th Baronet, of Egginton, and Mary Morley, and had four sons and one daughter; Mary Mosley, married Henry Feilden of Witton Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (January 1765 - 1815) and brother of Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet, of Feniscowles, and had one daughter and one son; Frances Mary Mosley (circa 1770 - circa 1844), married to George Smith of Selsdon (30 April 1765 - 26 December 1836), brother of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, of Upton, and nephew of Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet, of East Stoke, and had one son and one daughter (great-great-grandparents of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon); and Elizabeth Mosley (born circa 1770), married to The Reverend Streynsham Master (born 1766), Rector of Croston, Lancashire, and had one daughter and one son.
Mosley's family were Anglo-Irish. His branch were prosperous landowners in Staffordshire. The family seat was at Rolleston Hall, near Burton upon Trent and he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Mosley, of Ancoats, on 29 September 1798. His uncle Ashton Nicholas Mosley of Thornhill House,[1] married his mother-in-law Mary Morley and had issue, who succeeded in the House.
He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Portarlington 1806-1807, Winchelsea 1807-1812, Midhurst 1817-1818 and Staffordshire North 1832–1837. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1814.
He wrote a number of local and natural history books, including History of the Castle, Priory and Town of Tutbury (1832), Gleanings in Horticulture (1851) and Natural History of Tutbury (1863).
He married on 31 January 1804 Sophia Annie Every (died 8 June 1859), his brother-in-law's sister, daughter of Sir Edward Every, 8th Baronet, of Eggington, and Mary Morley, and had three children:
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Langston |
Member of Parliament for Portarlington 1806–1807 |
Succeeded by William Lamb |
| Preceded by Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane and Calverley Bewicke |
Member of Parliament for Winchelsea 1807–1812 with Calverley Bewicke |
Succeeded by William Vane and Calverley Bewicke |
| Preceded by Thomas Thompson Viscount Mahon |
Member of Parliament for Midhurst with Thomas Thompson 1817–1818 |
Succeeded by Samuel Smith John Smith |
| Preceded by (new constituency) |
Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire 1832–1837 with Edward Manningham-Buller |
Succeeded by William Baring and Edward Manningham-Buller |
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| Preceded by Walter Sneyd |
High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1814 |
Succeeded by John Smith |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by John Parker Mosley |
Baronet (of Ancoats) 1798–1871 |
Succeeded by Tonman Mosley |