Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet

Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet, MP (1757 – 3 June 1821) was an Irish baronet and politician.

Biography

He was the son of Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet and wife Elizabeth Christmas. He sat as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Carysfort between 1776 and 1797 and served as High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1795. In November 1783 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy.

Marriage and issue

Sir Thomas Osborne married on 6 April 1816 at St. Margaret's Church, Rochester, Kent, Catherine Rebecca Smith (1796 - 10 October 1856).^[1] Catherine Rebecca Smith was the daughter of Major Robert Smith (1754 - Chatham, Kent, 2 July 1813) of the Royal Marines, and his wife Margaret Ramsay (1766 - Newtown, Ireland, April 1839), and the granddaughter of Rev. James Ramsay and his wife Rebecca Akers.

Sir Thomas and Catherine Rebecca Smith Osborne had two children:

• Sir William Osborne, 10th Baronet (1817 - 23 May 1824), succeeded in the baronetcy on 3 June 1821
• Catherine Isabella Osborne (30 June 1819 - 20/1 June 1880), married on 20 August 1844 Ralph Bernal Osborne (26 March 1808 - 4 January 1882), and had two daughters

Sources

• 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.
• Marriage to Catherine Rebecca Smith CityARK
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/wilde.htm

External links

• http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=1309428
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p31475.htm#i314746
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/wilde.htm