Kent, Bart. by his wife Elizabeth, sole daughter and heir of William Slaughter, of the city of Rochester, Esq. but had no issue by her; who died December 16th, 1778. His Grace died February 1st, 1786, and was succeeded by his cousin, George, grandson of Lord William Beauclerk, second son of the first Duke, as FOURTH DUKE of St. Albans, who only survived a year, and dying February 16th, 1787, unmarried, was succeeded by his cousin Aubrey, Lord Vere, who thus became FIFTH DUKE OF ST. ALBANS. He was son of Lord Vere Beauclerk, third son of the first Duke. His Grace was born June 3d, 1740; in 1761, was returned M. P. for Thetford; and in 1768, for Aldborough in Yorkshire. On May 4th, 1763, he married Lady Catherine Ponsonby, daughter of William, Earl of Besborough, by whom he had issue. First, Aubrey, now Duke of St. Albans. Second, Lord William, born December 18th, 1766, married first, July 21st, 1791, Miss Carter Thelwall, daughter of the Reverend Robert Carter Thelwall, who died s. p. October 19th, 1797; he married, secondly, in 1799, and has a daughter born in 1800. Third, Lord Amelius, a captain in the navy. Fourth, Lord Frederic, in holy orders. Fifth, Catherine Elizabeth, married September 1st, 1802, the Reverend James Burgess, and died July 1803. Sixth, Caroline, married, February 10th, 1797, the Hon. Charles Dundas, second son of Lord Dundas. Seventh, Georgina, died October 17th, 1791. His Grace died February 9th, 1802, and was succeeded by his eldest son Aubrey, SIXTH AND present Duke, born August 21st, 1765, who married, first, Miss Moses, who died August 1800, without issue; and secondly, Louisa Grace, third daughter of Lady Louisa Manners. Titles. George Beauclerk, Duke of St. Albans, Earl of Burford, and Baron of Heddington, hereditary grand falconer of England, and hereditary register of the Court of Chancery. Creations. Baron of Heddington, and Earl of Burford, in com. Oxon. on December 27th, 1676, 28 Car. II. and Duke of St. Albans, in com. Hertford, January 10th, 1683-4, 35 Car. II. Arms. Those of King Charles II. with a baton sinister, gules, charged with three roses, Argent, seeded and barbed proper. Crest. On a chapeau, gules, turned up, ermine, a lion statant, guardant, Or, crowned with a ducal coronet, per pale, Argent and Gules, and gorged with a collar, Gules, charged with three roses, Argent, seeded and barbed proper. Supporters. On the dexter side, an antelope, Argent, gorged as the crest, armed and unguled, Or: on the sinister, a greyhound, Argent, gorged and unguled, as the other. Motto. Auspicium melioris ævi. Chief Seats. At Crawley in Hampshire, and at Windsor. THIS family was for some time seated at Ashford in the county of Kent; of which John Osborne, of Canterbury, gent. in the 12th of Henry VI. was returned in the list of gentry of the said: county, who made oath for the observance of the laws then enacted. But the said John Osborne bore different arms from those used by the family of Leeds. a RICHARD Osborne married Elizabeth, daughter of .... Fyldene, by whom he was father of RICHARD, who married Jane, daughter of John Broughton, of Broughton, Esq. and sister and heir to Edward and Lancelyn Broughton, of the county of Westmoreland, Esqrs. and by her had Sir Edward Osborne, Knight, Thomas, and Julian. The said SIR EDWARD Osborne, discovering a genius for mercantile affairs, which about that time began to flourish, was put apprentice to Sir William Hewet, of the clothworkers company, one of the most considerable merchants in London, and possessed of an estate of 6,000l. a year; and whilst he lived in that capacity, Sir William's only daughter and child, Anne, having been accidentally dropped, by the maid playing with her in her arms, from the window of his house on London bridge, into the Thames, almost beyond expectation of being saved, he immediately leaped into the river, and brought her safe out. Sir Edward afterwards had the said Anne in marriage, and with her got an estate in the parish of Barking in Essex, together with lands in the parishes of Wales and Harthill in Yorkshire. The said Sir William was Lord Mayor of London, in 1559, 1 Elizabeth; and dying on MS. in Offic Armor. E. 1 fol. 190. January 21st, 1566-7, 9 Elizabeth (when the said daughter was twenty-three years of age) was buried in the church of St. Martin Orgar (of which he was a parishioner) in the ward of Candlewick-street, near Alice his beloved wife, according to his will (dated on the 27th of that month) wherein he constituted his said daughter, with her husband Edward Osborne, Thomas Huet his brother, of Bilby in Derbyshire, Esq and his nephew Henry Hewet, executors. He was a benefactor to divers hospitals in London, and to the poor of the several parishes. He bequeathed to the poor in the hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark, whereof he was president, 201.; and to every poor maiden's marriage, that shall be wedded in the parish of Wales, or Harthill, in com. Ebor, within a year after his decease, 6s. Sd. each. He bequeathed to his nephews, Henry, and William Huet, sons of his brother Thomas Huet, his mansion and dwelling in Philpot Lane in London. Sir Edward Osborne was sheriff of London in 1575, and Lord Mayor in 1582, when he was knighted at Westminster. He served in parliament for the city of London 1585, and dying in 1591, was buried in St. Dionis Back-church, near Fenchurchstreet. Besides the said Anne, Sir Edward Osborne had another wife, Margaret, who was buried near him, in 1602, having been secondly wedded to Robert Clarke, Esq. a Baron of the Exchequer. But it was only by the first that he had issue, viz. Sir Hewit Osborne, born anno Dom. 1567; Edward, who died unmarried anno 1625; Anne, wife of Robert Offley, of London, and Alice, married to Sir John Peyton, of Iselham in com. Cantab. Knight and Baronet. Sir HEWIT Osborne was knighted by the Earl of Essex, at Menoth in Ireland, in 1599, having valiantly behaved against the rebels there. He married Joice (daughter of Thomas Fleetwood, of the Vache, Bucks, Esq. master of the mint, and sister to Sir William Fleetwood, of Cranford in Middlesex, receiver of the court of wards) who survived him, and was afterwards married to Sir Peter Frechevile, of Staveley in Derbyshire, Knight; but by her first husband had issue a son Edward, and a daughter Alice, married to Christopher Wandesford, of Kirklington in Yorkshire, Esq. Lord Deputy of Ireland, and ancestor to the late Earl of Wandesford. He died 1614. EDWARD Osborne succeeding his father, Sir Hewit was ⚫ In MS Regr. Octo. marked Ø in Coll. Arms is this entry in St. Giles, Cripplegate. "Xtd. 23d Aug. 1594, Hewet, Son of Hewet Osborne, Gent." с created a Baronet on July 13th, 1620, having before received the honour of knighthood. In 1629, when Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth, afterward Earl of Strafford, was made lord president of the North, Sir Edward Osborne was made vice-president of the council to Charles I. for the north of England; and upon the breaking out of the grand rebellion, in 1641, was lieutenantgeneral of the forces raised in his defence in that part of the country, upon the recommendation of the said Earl of Strafford, who had a very great opinion of his loyalty and capacity, as may be seen in that nobleman's printed letters. Sir Edward, first, married Margaret, eldest daughter of Thomas Viscount Fauconberg, and by her had a son Edward, a promising youth, who was unfortunately killed, by the fall of some chimneys of York manor (Sir Edward's habitation as vice-president of the North) on October 31st, 1638, when his other two children narrowly escaped the same misfortune, being then passing through the great chamber to their brother's apartment. Sir Edward's second wife was Anne, widow of William Midleton, of Stockeld in Yorkshire, Esq. and daughter to Thomas Walmsley, of Dunkenhalgh in the county of Lancaster, Esq. (by Eleanor his wife, daughter and coheir to Sir John Danvers, of Dantsey in the county of Wilts, Knight, by Elizabeth his wife, youngest daughter of John Nevil, Lord Latimer, and coheir to her brother, John Lord Latimer, who died without issue) and by her left issue Sir Thomas Osborne, created Duke of Leeds, &c. and Charles Osborne, who died unmarried; which Sir THOMAS, FIRST DUKE OF LEEDS, faithfully adhering to the royal interest, and co-operating with many others, in order to the happy restoration of Charles II. was afterwards, by that King, made treasurer of the navy, in the year 1671; and on May 3d, 1672, one of the privy-council. The next year, on June 19th, he was constituted lord high treasurer of England; and his Majesty, as a farther testimony of his most gracious esteem by letters patent, bearing date August 15th, 25 Car. II. advanced him to the degree of a Baron of this realm, by the title of Baron of Kiveton, in com. Ebor. and Viscount Latimer, and to his heirs male. Also by other letters patent, 27th Junii the year following, was further advanced to the dignity and title of Earl of Danby; likewise Viscount of Dumblaine in Scotland, by patent dated July 19th, < Drake's Hist. and Antiq. of York, p. 370. C. Ped of Danby. |