Ralph Bernal Osborne, Vanity Fair, 1870-05-28

Ralph Bernal Osborne of

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, MP (26 March 1808 – 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a

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politician.

Life

He was the eldest son of London

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Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Parliamentarian

Ralph Bernal Ralph Bernal (2 October 1783 ''available online to subscribers, and also in print'' or 2 October 1784 – 26 August 1854) was a British Whig politician and art collector. His parents, Jacob Israel Bernal and wife Leah da Silva, were Sephardi Je ...

, himself an MP, who died in 1854, and wife Ann Elizabeth (née White). The younger Bernal entered the

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in 1831, as an

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of the

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. He later served with the 7th (

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) Regiment of Foot, and finally left the army in 1844 with the rank of

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. He had already been elected to

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in 1841 as a member for

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, in the Liberal interest, and later sat for

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(1847–57),

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(1857–59),

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(1859–65),

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(1866–68), and

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City (1870–74). In the ''Railway Times'' of 21 June 1845 he is the first person listed in the provisional committee for the Leicester, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton-upon-Trent and Stafford Junction Railway: Ralph R. Bernal Osborne, MP for Wycombe, address: Albemarle Street. The railway was never built. Beside being a Parliamentarian, he was also

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. When he died, his house at Newtown Anner,

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, Ireland, was surrounded by more than of land.

Family

On 20 August 1844 he married Catherine Isabella Osborne (30 June 1819 – 20 June 1880), from an

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, the daughter of

Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet, MP (1757 – 3 June 1821) was an Irish baronet and politician. Biography He was the eldest son of Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet and his wife Elizabeth ''née'' Christmas, daughter of Thomas Christmas and ...

and Catherine Rebecca Smith, and on the same day he took her name and his name was legally changed by Royal Licence, becoming Ralph Bernal Osborne. His two daughters shared his estate. His older daughter, Edith Bernal Osborne, married Sir

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; His younger daughter, Grace Bernal Osborne (d. London, 18 November 1926), married William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans.Derek Beales, 'Osborne, Ralph Bernal (1808?–1882)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 200
accessed 28 March 2009
/ref> His grandson was

Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans Osborne de Vere Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans (16 October 1874 – 2 March 1964) was a British peer and Army officer. He was styled ''Lord Osborne Beauclerk'' from 1874 to 1934. Early life Lord Osborne Beauclerk was the son of William Be ...

Sources

* Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 3031.

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