Edward Osborne 1st Bt (1596 - 1647)

Born 12 Dec 1596 in London, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Walmesley) Osborne — married before 12 Sep 1626 (to 9 Sep 1647) in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1647 at age 50 in Kiveton, Yorkshire, England

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Family and Education

Parents: Sir Hewett Osborne and Joyce Fleetwood. Educated at Cambridge, entered Temple Inn.

Succeeded his father 1599; created baronet. 13 July 1620.

Biography

Sir Edward Osborne was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Osborne’s like-named grandfather, Sir Edward Osborne, came from a minor gentry family from Kent but was apprenticed to a leading London merchant Sir William Hewett. Having famously rescued his master’s daughter from the Thames, and subsequently married her, he made his own pile, and was MP in 1586.

The elder Sir Edward' son was unsurprisingly named Sir Hewett Osborne. This Hewett served in France as a soldier under Peregrine Bertie, 13th Lord Willoughby of Willoughby, Beck and Eresby, and Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex, in Ireland, where he died on active service in 1599, aged 32.

At the death of his father, the 3-year old Edward Osborne became a ward of the Crown.

When Edward came of age in 1617 he sold his Essex property to William Fanshawe... although he continued to live mostly in Essex, at Stratford Langthorne, which he leased from Henry Meautys... he received visitations from his brother-in-law Christopher Wandesford at this place...

With the death of his wife in 1625, he moved to Kiveton, in proximity to his friend Sir Thomas Wentworth...

Osborne was probably nominated for East Retford in 1628 by Sir Gervase Clifton ('The Great', of Seven Wives), to whom Osborne probably sold Bilby . Osborne was also connected with Clifton via his stepfather, Sir Peter Frescheville, whose father’s first wife Elizabeth had been Clifton’s aunt...

...as Deputy for the Council in the North, (Sir) John Coke described Osborne as ‘a young man of good understanding, and counsellable, and very forward to promote His Majesty’s service’...

...his niece Alice Thornton, the daughter of Christopher Wandesford, described him as ‘a very good wise, and prudent man’ and ‘orthodox to the Church of England, a faithful loyal subject to the king, and of a sweet and affable disposition to all’...

Sources

• "OSBORNE, Sir Edward, 1st Bt. (1596-1647), of Kiveton, Harthill, Yorks.; formerly of Stratford Abbey, West Ham, Essex." HoP
• Marshall, G.W. (1871). The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614. London. Page 31
• Thornton, A. (2014). My First Booke of My Life, pp. 253. Raymond A. Anselment, Ed. University of Nebraska. Google Books.
• Wikipedia: Sir Edward OSborne, 1st Baronet
• Foster, Joseph. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire (W. Wilfred Head, London, 1874) Vol. 3, Page n257.