Oswald Mosley Bt JP (1848 - 1915)

Born 25 Sep 1848 in Rolleston, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Constance (White) Mosley — married 22 Jan 1873 (to 10 Oct 1915) in Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 1915 at age 67 in Abingworth, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Oswald Mosley Bt JP is Notable.

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Sir Oswald Mosley was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Mosley's family were Anglo-Irish. His branch were prosperous landowners in Staffordshire.

Birth

Oswald was born in 1848. He was the eldest son of Sir Tonman Mosley, 3rd Baronet, of Ancoats and Catherine Wood daughter of The Reverend John Wood of Swanwick, Derbyshire and Emily Susanna Bellairs (daughter of Abel Walford Bellairs and Susannah Lowley). His younger brother was Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow. His paternal grandparents were Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats, and Sophia Annie Every. ^[1]

Education

He was educated at Eton, and went on to own around 3,800 acres (15 km2) of land. His residences included Rolleston Hall in Rolleston on Dove and he was engaged in farming and cattle breeding. He succeeded the baronetcy on 28 April 1890.

Mosley was nicknamed "Baronet John Bull" due to his resemblance to John Bull, the national personification of Great Britain.^[2]

Marriage and Children

He married Elizabeth Constance White (b. abt. 1852, d. 13 November 1938), daughter of Sir William White, in the first quarter of 1873 in Marylebone District, London. They had 4 children

1. Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet, of Ancoats (29 Dec 1873 – 21 Sep 1928) married Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote (1874 – 1950), the second child of Captain Justinian Edwards-Heathcote of Market Drayton, Shropshire; their son was the Fascist politician Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet
2. Constance Mosley (Montagu Square, London, 25 April 1881 - Westminster, London, 1963), married as his second wife on 11 March 1907 Charles Fitzroy Ponsonby McNeill (Warmsworth, Yorkshire, 9 Dec 1866 – 22 Nov 1955), son of Captain Duncan McNeill and Fanny Charlotte Emma Talbot (married firstly on 31 January 1891 to Lady Hilda Maud Rous, daughter of John Edward Cornwallis Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke and Augusta Musgrave, by whom he had a son and a daughter), and had one daughter.
3. Violet Mosley married Lt-Col John McKie
4. Geraldine Mosley married Frank Outram Ellison

Death

He died on the 10th of Oct 1915 in Abingworth, Sussex, England^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ The Peerage:Sir Oswald Mosley
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet
3. ↑ National Probate Calendar: "MOSLEY sir Oswald of Rolleston Hall near Burton-on-Trent and of Abingworth Thakenham Sussex baronet died 10 October 1915 at Abingworth Probate London 8 February to Abel John Ram K.C. Charles Robert French and Alfred Octavius Kirby esquires. Effects £94198 17s. 7d. Resworn £92387 3s. 11d."