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OSBORN, SIR DANVERS, BART., fourth son of John Osborn, and Hon. Sarah Byng, only surviving dau. of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington; nephew of Thomas Osborn (qv); b. 17 Nov 1715; succ. grandfather as 3rd baronet 28 Apr 1720; adm. Jan 1722/3; in under school list 1728; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Mar 1732, matr. 1732; raised a troop against the Young Pretender 1745; MP Bedfordshire 1747-53; Capt., Independent Co. Foot 25 Jul 1753; appointed Governor of New York summer 1753; sailed from Portsmouth 22 Aug 1753; arrived in New York 6 Oct 1753; m. 25 Sep 1740 Lady Mary Montagu, third dau. of George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax; committed suicide at New York 12 Oct 1753.

OSBORN, DANVERS HENRY, youngest son of Sir John Osborn, Bart. (qv); b. 13 Aug 1827; adm. 11 Jan 1841 (G); QS 1841; left 1844; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1845; Ensign, 54th Native Infantry 15 Sep 1846; Lieut., 18 Jul 1848; Capt., 13 May 1857; Maj., 27 Dec 1865; Bengal Staff Corps 12 Sep 1866; retd. as Lieut. -Col., 1 May 1868; served in Indian Mutiny; severely wounded while escaping from Delhi in May 1857; m. 17 Mar 1862 Annette, dau. of Thomas Wilson, Calcutta; d. at Brussels 5 Feb 1898.

OSBORN, CHARLES, younger son of Capt. Peter Osborn, [Royal Navy ?], The Royal Hospital, Greenwich, and Mary, widow of Francis Molyneux, 5th Viscount Molyneux (I), and eldest dau. of Francis Brudenell, Lord Brudenell; b. Highgate, Middlesex; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1734/5; KS 1737; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1741, but never adm.; Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 May 1741, matr. 1741; a caveat of 3 Nov 1745 from Archbishop of Canterbury to Bishop of Llandaff directed that Osborn was not to receive holy orders without notice to the Archbishop; migr. to Jesus Coll. Oxford 4 Jun 1747; BA 1748; MA 1749; Capt. -Lieut., 60th Foot [or 90th Foot] [check].

OSBORN, CHARLES DAVERS, second son of Sir John Osborn, Bart. (qv); b. 17 Apr 1819; adm. 20 Apr 1831 (G); left Dec 1835; Ensign, 11th Foot 12 Aug 1837; 2nd Lieut., 5th Foot 11 May 1838; Lieut., 6 Mar 1840; 66th Foot 25 Nov 1842; retd. 30 Jun 1843; m. 2 Jan 1845 Louisa, sister of Edward Gambier Eliot Atherley (qv); d. 8 Dec 1846.

OSBALDESTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Osbaldeston, London, haberdasher, and Rebecca, dau. of John Nethersole, Womenswould, Kent; nephew of William Osbaldeston (qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1648; KS 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 27 Nov 1652, Westminster Student; [check if BA]; MA 1658; ordained; Rector of St. James’s, Duke Place, London 14 Aug 1661-4; Rector of Great Parndon, Essex, from 1662; m. Frances Syliock, St. Martin’s in the Fields; buried Great Parndon, Essex 3 Mar 1679/80.

OSBALDESTON, JOHN, son of John Osbaldeston, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS 1676; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1681, matr. 16 Dec 1681, aged 17, Westminster Student from 19 Dec 1681; BA 1685; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1688, priest 26 May 1689 (both Winchester); Rector of Saunderton, Bucks., 1689; Rector of St. Peter at Arches, Lincoln, from 1690; Prebendary of Lincoln from 11 Apr 1691; buried St. Peter at Arches, Lincoln 27 Aug 1691.

OSBALDESTON (or OSBOLSTON), WILLIAM, eldest son of Lambert Osbaldeston, London, haberdasher, and Martha, dau. of Alexander Bankes; b. 1577; adm.; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1597, matr. Feb 1597/8, Westminster Student to c. 1610; BA 1601; MA 1604; BD 1611; DD 1617; adm. Gray’s Inn 1 Aug 1619 [check]; ordained; Rector of Great Parndon, Essex 1610-43, sequestered; Professor of Divinity, Gresham Coll., London 13 Dec 1610-11; licensed to preach 12 May 1612; Rector of East Hanningfield, Essex, from 21 Jan 1616/7; m. Mary ---; d. early in 1645/6. DNB.

OSBALDESTON (or OSBOLSTON), LAMBERT, brother of William Osbaldeston (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1612, matr. 20 Oct 1615, Westminster Student; BA 1616; MA 1619 (incorp. Cambridge 1628); adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Oct 1615; a joint patent of the Head Mastership of the School was granted to John Wilson (elected to Oxford 1602, qv) and to Osbaldeston 7 Dec 1621; succeeded Wilson as Head Master 1622, his patent being dated 5 Dec 1622; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln 18 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641; Prebendary of Westminster 22 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641; Rector of Wheathampstead, Herts. , 1637 – deprived Feb 1638/9, later restored; sentenced to the pillory by Court of Star Chamber 14 Feb 1638/9, for calling Archbishop Laud “the little meddling hocus-pocus”, also incurring two fines of £5000 each and the forfeiture of the Head Mastership and his ecclesiastical preferments; lived in concealment in Drury Lane until meeting of Parliament in Nov 1640; restored to preferments other than Head Mastership 1641; Prebendary of Wells from 2 Nov 1641; an annuity of £100 was granted to him by the Governors of Westminster School after the abolition of Deans and Chapters by Parliament in 1649; his living of Wheathampstead seems to have been again sequestered; spent last few years of life in retirement; Osbaldeston was a learned man and a good schoolmaster; Wood says that he was “very fortunate in breeding up many wits” (Ath. Oxon. , iii, 363), and Fuller states that in 1638 there were “above fourscore doctors in the two universities and three learned faculties all gratefully acknowledging their education under him” (Church History, ed. Brewer, vi, 158); unm. ; buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey 7 Oct 1659. DNB.

Orriss, Walter Gerald, only son of Walter Felix Orriss, of St. Johns Wood, by Amelia, daughter of Joseph Powell, of Liverpool; b. March 19, 1889; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (H); left July 1905; Lieut. 5th (Res.) Batt. Grenadier Guards July 15, 1915; served in France in 3rd Batt., where he was twice wounded; went out for the third time March 8, 1918; d. in hospital at Doullens March 29, 1918, of wounds received at Arras the previous day; unm.