John Proby Osborne,
MP (1755 – December 1787) was an
Irish
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** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
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politician.
Biography
Osborne was the son of
Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet
Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, (d. 30 September 1783) was an Irish baronet and politician.
Biography
The son of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and his wife Editha Proby, he succeeded in the baronetcy on 11 April 1743.
Osborne served as Hig ...
and wife Elizabeth Christmas. He was a practising
barrister and sat as a
Member of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...
in the
Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fran ...
for
Carysfort between 1783 and 1788.
He died unmarried and childless.
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/p31476.htm#i314752
1755 births
Younger sons of baronets
Irish MPs 1783–1790
1787 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wicklow constituencies
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