Sir Richard Osborne, 1st Baronet, MP (1593 - 1666/67) was an Irish baronet, lawyer and politician.^[1]

Biography

Osborne served as Clerk of the King's Court of Ireland between 1616 and 1629 before being created a baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland of Ballintaylor and Ballylemon, County Waterford, on 15 October 1629.

He sat as a Member of Parliament for County Waterford being returned to the Irish House of Commons between 1639 and 1649, and between 1661 and 1666.^[2]

Marriage and issue

Osborne and his wife Mary, daughter of Roger Dalton, of Knockmahon, County Waterford,^[3] had the following surviving sons:

• Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet (1618 - 2 March 1685)
• Nicholas Osborne, of Cappagh, County Tyrone (1620 - 1695), Clerk of the Crown of Ireland, married Anne Parsons, and had two sons and one daughter:
  • Sir Thomas Osborne, 5th Baronet (c. 1639 - 10 October 1715)
  • Grace Osborne, married firstly in 1656 John Stoute, of Youghal, County Cork, without issue, married secondly Piers Power, of Knockanore, County Waterford,^[4] without issue, and married thirdly Philip Fitzjames Ronayne, of Ronayne's Court, County Cork^[5] and had female issue
• John Osborne (c. 1622 - 1667), educated at Trinity College Dublin
• Roger Osborne (c. 1623 - 17 February 1679), educated at TCD, married Mabel, Lady Tynte (née Smyth^[6])

Coat of arms

Sources

• 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, pages 3030 and 3031.
• Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), page 429.