Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet

Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, PC (d. 30 September 1783) was an Irish baronet and politician.

Biography

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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 High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1750 and served as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Carysfort between 1761 and 1768, for Dungarvan between 1768 and 1783 and for Carysfort again in 1783, and was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1770.

Marriage and issue

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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:

See also

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Sources

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  • 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.
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Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Carysfort
1761–1769
With: William Mayne
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Dungarvan
1768–1783
With: Robert Carew 1768–1776
John Bennett 1776
Captain Godfrey Greene from 1777
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Carysfort
October 1783 – November 1783
With: Sir Thomas Osborne
Succeeded by
Baronetage of Ireland
Preceded by Baronet
(of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon)
1743–1783
Succeeded by