Peter Osborne (Keeper Of The Privy Purse)
Peter Osborne may refer to: * Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet (born 1943), British businessman and father of George Osborne * Peter Osborne (philosopher) (born 1958), writer and an academic teaching philosophy at Kingston University * Peter Osborne (Keeper of the Privy Purse) (1521–1592), Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI * Peter Osborne (1584–1653), English administrator and Member of Parliament See also * Peter Oborne (born 1957), British journalist * Osborne (other) Osborne may refer to: * Osborne (name) Places Australia * Osborne, South Australia (other), places associated with the suburb in the Adelaide metropolitan area * Osborne, New South Wales, a rural community in the Riverina region Ca ...

Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet
Sir Peter George Osborne, 17th Baronet (born 29 June 1943) is a British businessman, who co-founded the interior design firm Osborne & Little in 1968. He is the father of George Osborne, the Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Early life Peter Osborne was born on 29 June 1943. He is the elder son of Sir George Osborne, 16th Baronet, who as a soldier was decorated during the First World War, and Mary Horn. Osborne was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and received an MA from Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded to the baronetcy, becoming the 17th Osborne baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon, on 21 July 1960, upon the death of his father. Career In 1968, Osborne and his brother-in-law Anthony Little co-founded Osborne & Little, a successful manufacturer and retailer of upmarket wallpaper and fabrics, opening its initial showroom in Chelsea. It was revealed in 2016 that the firm had made £6 million in a 2004 property deal with a developer fro ...
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Peter Osborne (philosopher)
Peter Osborne (born 1958) is a British philosophy teacher who is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University, London. He is a former editor of the journal ''Radical Philosophy''. Education Osborne graduated from the University of Bristol in 1979, with a Bachelor of Science in philosophy and economics, went on to obtain a Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Sussex in 1980, and stayed on to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1988 Osborne, along with CRMEP colleague Howard Caygill, was a student of Gillian Rose. Career Osborne returned to the University of Bristol in 1988 to become a lecturer in the philosophy department. Then, in 1989, he lectured in the undergraduate philosophy department at Middlesex University, remaining there until he became, first, a senior lecturer (in 1992), then a reader in the graduate programme, before becoming a professor in 1997. Osborne h ...
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Peter Osborne (Keeper Of The Privy Purse)
Peter Osborne may refer to: * Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet (born 1943), British businessman and father of George Osborne * Peter Osborne (philosopher) (born 1958), writer and an academic teaching philosophy at Kingston University * Peter Osborne (Keeper of the Privy Purse) (1521–1592), Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI * Peter Osborne (1584–1653), English administrator and Member of Parliament See also * Peter Oborne (born 1957), British journalist * Osborne (other) Osborne may refer to: * Osborne (name) Places Australia * Osborne, South Australia (other), places associated with the suburb in the Adelaide metropolitan area * Osborne, New South Wales, a rural community in the Riverina region Ca ...

Peter Osborne (1584–1653)
Sir Peter Osborne (1584 – 14 April 1653), of Chicksands in Bedfordshire, was an English administrator and Member of Parliament, who was Royal Governor of Guernsey during the English Civil War. Biography Osborne was the eldest son of Sir John Osborne (1552–1628) and grandson of Peter Osborne (1521–1592), who had been Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI, and who had been granted the office of Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer to himself and his heirs. Francis Osborne, the well-known writer, was Sir Peter's younger brother. Sir Peter was knighted in 1611, and married Dorothy Danvers. Through the influence of her brother, the Earl of Danby, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey in 1621 with a reversion on the governorship in the event of Danby's death. He also served in James I's fourth and last parliament (the Happy Parliament in 1624) and Charles I's first parliament (the Useless Parliament in 1625), representing Corfe Castle, and after his father's death in 16 ...
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Peter Oborne
Peter Alan Oborne (; born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the former chief political commentator of ''The Daily Telegraph'', from which he resigned in early 2015. He is author of ''The Rise of Political Lying'', ''The Triumph of the Political Class'', and ''The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism'', and along with Frances Weaver of the pamphlet ''Guilty Men''. He has also authored a number of books about cricket. He writes a political column for ''Middle East Eye'' and a diary column for the ''Byline Times''. He sat as a commissioner for the Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life. He won the Press Awards Columnist of the Year in 2012 and again in 2016. Biography Early life and career Oborne was educated at Sherborne School and read history at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA degree in 1978. After abandoning work on a doctorate, he joined NM Rothschild's corpor ...
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