Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet

Rt. Hon. Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, MP, PC (d. Nov 1783) was an Irish baronet and politician.

Biography

Osborne was the son of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and wife Editha Proby, and succeeded in the baronetcy on 11 April 1743. He served as High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1750 and was 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 Elizabeth Christmas, for what they obtained a marriage license on 20 March 1749, daughter of Thomas Christmas of Whitfield, County Waterford, and had eight children:

• Elizabeth Osborne (? - 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)
• The Rev. William Osborne, unmarried and without issue
• Ada Osborne, married her cousin Thomas Christmas
• unknown daughter Osborne, unmarried and without issue
• Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet (1757 - 3 June 1821)
• Sir Henry Osborne, 11th Baronet (aft. 1758 - 27 October 1837)
• Rt. Hon. Charles Osborne (1759 - 5 September 1817)

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.

External links

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p1955.htm#i19542