Sir George Francis Osborne, 16th Baronet

Repton School, Derbyshire

Osborne was born on 27 July 1894. He was the eldest son of Sir Francis Osborne, 15th Baronet and wife Kathleen Eliza née Whitfield, of Framfield Grange, Sussex.[1]

Osborne was educated at Repton School, Derbyshire before entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Berkshire.

Osborne fought with distinction in the First World War, receiving mentions in despatches.[2]

Wounded in combat twice, Osborne was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and was promoted Major in 1932 before retiring from regular service with the Royal Sussex Regiment in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Osborne succeeded to the family title, the Osborne Baronetcy of Ballentaylor and Ballylemonon, on 23 October 1948.

Osborne married on 27 February 1938 Mary Grace Horn (? - 1987), daughter of Clement Samuel Horn of Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, Sussex. Mary Grace had previously been married, before 1926, to Dr. Robert Stavali Aspinall, a British Army surgeon, by whom she had had a son, John Victor Aspinall.

Mary Grace and Osborne had four children:

• Jennifer Jane Osborne (b. 29 March 1939), married on 20 May 1966 Antony Rufus Little
• Caroline Mary Osborne (b. 12 November 1941), married before 1966 Michael J. Dodd, (issue).
• Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet of Vinnicks, Highclere, Hampshire, 17th Baronet (b. 29 June 1943) married on 16 October 1968 Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock of Belgravia, London (who married subsequently in 1979 Sir Anthony Grover, Chairman of Lloyd's Register of Shipping, who died in 1981, and married thirdly in 1983 Sir James Dunnett,[3]) and had four children:
  • The Rt. Hon. George Gideon Oliver Osborne (b. 23 May 1971)
  • Benedict George Osborne (b. 25 July 1973)
  • Adam Peter Osborne (b. 25 March 1976)
  • Theodore "Theo" Grantley Osborne (b. 28 March 1985)
• James Francis Osborne (b. 18 February 1946), educated at Seaford College, Petworth, West Sussex, Sussex, and at the Sorbonne University, Paris, married on 9 October 1971 Felicity Jane Boutwood, daughter of Peter Boutwood of West Wittering, Chichester, West Sussex, Sussex, and adopted two sons and had one son:
  • (adopted) Toby James Robert Osborne (b. 1977), twin with the below
  • (adopted) George Dominic Peter Osborne (b. 1977), twin with the above
  • Harry Lucas Osborne (b. 1988)

Osborne died on 21 July 1960.

• 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 3031 and 3032.

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p31486.htm#i314853