Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet (25 September 1848 – 10 October 1915'MOSLEY, Sir Oswald', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007.), was a British

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and landowner. Oswald Mosley Vanity Fair 1898-09-01

Family

Mosley was born in

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in 1848 the eldest son of Sir Tonman Mosley, 3rd Baronet (9 July 1813 – 28 April 1890), who succeeded to the title of Baronet Mosley, of Ancoats in 1871, and his wife Catherine Wood (died 1891), daughter of Rev. John Wood, of

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, and Emily Susanna Bellairs (daughter of Abel Bellairs and Susannah Lowley). His younger brother was Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow. His paternal grandparents were

Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet (27 March 1785 – 24 May 1871), was an English aristocrat, politician, historian and naturalist. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for several constituencies, authored several works in the aforementioned ...

, and Sophia Annie Every. Mosley's family were prosperous landowners in

Career

He was educated at

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, and went on to own around of land. His residences included Rolleston Hall in

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and he was engaged in farming and cattle breeding. He succeeded the

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on 28 April 1890. Mosley was nicknamed "Baronet John Bull" due to his resemblance to

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, the

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of Great Britain.

Marriage and issue

He married Elizabeth Constance White (b. abt. 1852, d. 13 November 1938), daughter of Sir William White, in the first quarter of 1873 in

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, London. Their son Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet, of Ancoats (29 December 1873 – 21 September 1928) married Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote (1873–1948), the second child of Captain Justinian Edwards-Heathcote of

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; their son was the

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politician

Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when he, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, turned to fascism. ...

. Their daughter Constance Mosley (

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, London, 25 April 1881 –

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, London, 1963), married as his second wife on 11 March 1907 Charles Fitzroy Ponsonby McNeill (

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, 9 December 1866 – 22 November 1955), son of Captain Duncan McNeill and Fanny Charlotte Emma Talbot (married firstly on 31 January 1891 to Lady Hilda Maud Rous, daughter of

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, and Augusta Musgrave, by whom he had a son and a daughter), and had one daughter. Mosley died at his home in Abingworth, near

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in West Sussex on 10 October 1915.

Arms

References

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