Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds (11 November 1691 – 9 May 1731) was a

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Early life

He was the second son of Peregrine, Earl of Danby and his wife, the former Bridget Hyde, only daughter of Sir Thomas Hyde, 2nd Baronet. In 1694, when his grandfather, the 1st Marquess of Carmarthen, was created

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, and his father assumed the title Marquess of Carmarthen, he became Lord Peregrine Osborne.

Career

In 1709, he began his Grand Tour together with his older brother William, Earl of Danby, who died of

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in 1711, at which point Osborne assumed the title Earl of Danby. In 1712, when his father succeeded as 2nd Duke of Leeds, he became Marquess of Carmarthen. Lord Carmarthen was summoned to the

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in his father's most junior title as 3rd Baron Osborne by a

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in January 1713 and succeeded to his father's other titles in 1729. From 1712 to 1713, he served as

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Personal life

On 16 December 1712, he married firstly Lady Elizabeth Harley, youngest daughter of the 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. She died in the childbed only a year later. *

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(1713–1789), who married

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, second daughter of

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by his first wife, Lady Elizabeth Thynne, ''styled'' Baroness Percy (only child of Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland). A son, who originated from this marriage, died young. After her death in 1722, he married finally, on 9 April 1725 at

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, Juliana Hele, a daughter and co-heiress of Roger Hele of Holwell in the parish of

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, Devon. Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, pp. 387–8 The Duke of Leeds died, aged 40, and was buried in the Osborne family chapel at All Hallows Church, Harthill, South Yorkshire. He was succeeded in his titles by his only surviving child, Thomas, Marquess of Carmarthen, born by his first wife.

References

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Burials at Osborne family chapel, All Hallows' Church (Harthill)