OSBORN, Robert Durie (son of Henry Roche Osborn, lieut. col. 13 Bengal N.I., d. 1849). b. Agra 6 Aug. 1835; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1854, lieut. 1857; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8, and with the Bundelcund field force 1859–60; lieut. Bengal staff corps 1857, major 20 Dec. 1873, retired with hon. rank of lieut. col. 1 May 1879; captain 12 regiment of Bengal cavalry 1868–72; served through Afghan campaign of 1879; resided at 20 Winchester road, Hampstead 1879 to death; London correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman; author of Islam under the Arabs 1876; Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Lawn tennis, its players and how to play 1881, 2 ed. 1884. d. of syncope while playing lawn tennis at the Hyde Park tennis court, London 19 April 1889, portrait by J. R. Hodgson exhibited at the R.A. 1877. Academy xxxv 304 (1889); Athenæum i 538 (1889).
OSBORN, Samuel (brother of Marmaduke Clark Osborn 1827–91). b. Sheffield Aug. 1826; a file maker Brook hill, Sheffield 1851; a manufacturer of steel railway materials in the Wicker, Sheffield, took J. E. Fawcett into partnership; head of firm of Samuel Osborn and co., Clyde steel and iron works, Sheffield; master cutler 1873; suspended payment April 1873 with heavy liabilities, bought back the business paying a composition of 12s. in the pound, paid all his creditors in full 9 Feb. 1884, and was presented with a testimonial April 1884; mayor of Sheffield 1890; removed to the Rutland works, Sheffield 1885. d. Blackpool 7 July 1891. bur. Ecclesall 11 July. Sheffield Independent 8 July 1891 p. 5, 10 July p. 6, 13 July pp. 5–6.
OSBORN, Sherard (eld. son of Edward Osborn, colonel Madras army). b. 25 April 1822; entered navy Sept. 1837; commanded the Pioneer steam tender in the Arctic expedition under captain Austin 1850–1; commanded the Pioneer again in the Arctic expedition under sir Edward Belcher 30 Oct. 1852, all the ships were abandoned 20 Aug. 1854; commanded the Vesuvius in the Black Sea 1855; senior officer in Sea of Azov June 1855 to end of the war; commanded the Furious in the Chinese war 1857, and the Donegal in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican war 1861–2; commanded the Royal Sovereign 1864; agent at Bombay to the Great Indian Peninsular railway 1865–6; managing director of the Telegraph construction and maintenance company 1867–71; R.A. 29 May 1873; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; contested Birkenhead 18 Nov. 1868; wrote many papers in Blackwood’s Mag.; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of Stray leaves from an Arctic journal 1852, 2 ed. 1865; Quedah, or stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters 1857, 2 ed. 1865; A cruise in Japanese waters 1859; The career, last voyage and fate of sir John Franklin 1860; The past and future of British relations in China 1860; Japanese fragments with facsimiles of illustrations 1860; edited The discovery of a north-west passage by captain M’Clure 1856, 3 ed. 1865. d. 33 Charles st. Berkley sq. London 6 May 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 May. Geographical Mag. ii 161 (1875); Colburn’s United service mag. 1875 part 2, p. 254; I.L.N. xx 336 (1852) portrait, lxvi 475, 489, 495, 571 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 486, 492 (1875) portrait.
OSBORNE, Catherine Rebecca (eld. dau. of Robert Smith, major R.E.). b. 1795; m. 4 April 1816 sir Thomas Osborne, 8 baronet, b. 1757, d. 3 June 1821. She d. Newton Anner, co. Tipperary 10 Oct. 1856. Memorial of life of Lady Osborne, edited by her daughter Mrs. Osborne 2 vols. (1870).
OSBORNE, George Alexander (3 son of the organist of Limerick cathedral). b. Limerick 24 Sept. 1806; studied music at Brussels 1824–6; chapel master to the prince of Orange 1826–31; wrote with Charles A. de Bériot 33 duets for violin and pianoforte; served as a volunteer on the royalist side during Belgian revolution of 1830; resided in Paris 1831–44, and in London 1844 to death; made tours of the provinces with other musicians; a popular teacher of the piano, noted for his performances of Bach’s music; member of the Philharmonic Society and of the Musical Association and a director of the Royal academy of music; wrote Sylvia and another opera; La pluie de perles, valse brillante 1848; Classical pianoforte works 1851–2, thirty numbers; Fallen leaves, twelve short pieces 1861; The reapers, a part song 1862; The communion service 1878; his name is attached to upwards of 250 pieces of music 1834–84. d. 5 Ulster terrace, Regent’s park, London 17 Nov. 1893. Musical times Dec. 1893 and Jany. 1894.
OSBORNE, George Willoughby. b. 1808; second lieut. Madras army 6 April 1820; lieut. 19 Madras N.I. 17 July 1823, captain 25 May 1830, major 14 March 1843, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1850 to 1855; lieut. col. of 46 N.I. 1855–7, of 31 light infantry 1857–8, of 32 N.I. 1858–60, of 48 N.I. 1860–1, and of 33 N.I. 1861 to 31 Dec. 1861; commandant Thayat Mew 22 March 1859 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. 5 Lower Seymour st. London 21 Oct. 1880.
OSBORNE, Hugh Stacey. b. 1770; entered Bombay army 1788; lieut. 1 Oct. 1790; captain European infantry 6 March 1800, major 25 Feb. 1807 to 6 July 1811, lieut. col. 1813–15; lieut. col. 1 Bombay N.I. 1815; col. 14 N.I. 27 May 1825 to death; M.G. 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1854. d. Brighton 15 Sept. 1855.
OSBORNE, John. b. Yorkshire; hunting groom to Mr. Taylor of Kirton; trained Ararat for Liverpool races; trained horses in the North; trained for the marquis of Westminster 1842; trained some horses which his son rode; ran Exact and Lambton at York 1852; had 40 brood mares; ran Brown Brandy. Cherry Brandy, and Lord Alford; trained for lord Zetland, lord Londesborough, and sir Charles Monk. d. Aug. 1865. bur. Coverham ch. yard. Sporting Review Sept. 1865 pp. 165–8.
OSBORNE, John (son of Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol). b. 10 Oct. 1810; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835; Q.C. 29 Nov. 1862; judge of county courts circuit S. Lancashire 26 Jany. 1871 to death. d. Bent house, near Prestwich, Lancs. 23 Nov. 1872. Law Times liv 122 (1872).
OSBORNE, John William Willoughby. b. 25 Sept. 1833; ensign Indian army 1 Jany. 1850; executive engineer Mhow division July 1855; political agent at Réwah 1857, defeated the mutineers near Réwah in nine actions 1857, and preserved Bandalkhand during the mutiny; lieut. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1876 to death; hon. aide-de-camp to the governor general Feb. 1858; C.B. 18 May 1860; adviser to the Begum of Bhopal 1860; administered the Gwalier state to death, where he was in much favor with Scindhia; colonel in the army 2 April 1877; hon. A.D.C. to the viceroy of India; author of A pilgrimage to Mecca by Sikandar Begam, followed by a sketch of the reigning family of Bhopal 1870. d. Mussoree 4 Oct. 1881. Army and navy mag. iii 539–45 (1882); Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny v 75–7, 134, vi 167 (1889).