Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, (d. 30 September 1783) was an Irish
baronet
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and politician.
Biography
The son of
Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and his wife Editha Proby, he succeeded in the
baronetcy
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on 11 April 1743.
Osborne served as
High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1750 and served as a
Member of Parliament 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 the end of 1800. The upper house was the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, ...
for
Carysfort between 1761 and 1768, for
Dungarvan
Dungarvan () is a coastal town and harbour in County Waterford, on the south-east coast of Ireland. Prior to the merger of Waterford County Council with Waterford City Council in 2014, Dungarvan was the county town and administrative centre of ...
between 1768 and 1783 and for Carysfort again in 1783, and was sworn of the
Irish Privy Council
His or Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier centuries the Irish Council, was the institution within the Dublin Castle administration which exercised formal execut ...
in 1770.
Marriage and issue
Sir William Osborne married (
lic. 20 March 1749) Elizabeth Christmas, daughter of
Thomas Christmas MP, of
Whitfield, Co. Waterford and Elizabeth Marshall, and had eight children:
* Elizabeth Osborne (1754 - November 1783), married on 19 March 1774 as his first wife
John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort (12 August 1751 – 7 April 1828)
*
John Proby Osborne (1755 - December 1787), died unmarried without issue
*
Revd. William Osborne, died unmarried without issue
*
Ada Osborne, married her cousin
Capt. Thomas Christmas and had issue
* unnamed daughter, died an infant
*
Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet (1757 - 3 June 1821)
*
Sir Henry Osborne, 11th Baronet (1759 - 27 October 1837)
*
Rt. Hon. Charles Osborne (1760 - 5 September 1817) MP and judge of the
Court of King's Bench (Ireland)
The Court of King's Bench (of Queen's Bench when the sovereign was female, and formerly of Chief Place or Chief Pleas) was one of the senior courts of common law in Ireland. It was a mirror of the Court of King's Bench in England. The King's Ben ...
See also
*
Proby baronets
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
www.thepeerage.com
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Year of birth unknown
1783 deaths
Osborne baronets
Irish MPs 1761–1768
Irish MPs 1769–1776
Irish MPs 1776–1783
Irish MPs 1783–1790
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
High sheriffs of County Waterford
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wicklow constituencies
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Waterford constituencies