The Osborne, later Osborn Baronetcy, of Chicksands in the County of Bedford, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 11 February 1662 for John Osborne, subsequently Remembrancer

Remembrancer

The Remembrancer was originally one of certain subordinate officers of the English Exchequer. The office itself is of great antiquity, the holder having been termed remembrancer, memorator, rememorator, registrar, keeper of the register, despatcher of business...

 to the Treasury

HM Treasury

HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy...

 from 1674 to 1698. The baronetcy was in recognition of the sufferings the family had suffered for its support of Charles I

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

. Osborn was the son of Sir Peter Osborne, Governor of Guernsey, great-grandson of Peter Osborne, who acquired the family seat of Chicksands Priory

Chicksands

Chicksands is a village in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England and part of the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands . It is on the River Flit. Nearby places are Shefford and Campton....

 in 1576 and was Remembrancer of the Treasury to Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

, Keeper of the Privy Purse

Keeper of the Privy Purse

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 to Edward VI

Edward VI of England

Edward VI was the King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch who was raised as a Protestant...

 and Commissioner of Ecclesiastical Affairs to Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...

. The third Baronet was the son of John Osborn, eldest son of the second Baronet, who altered the spelling of the family surname to Osborn to avoid confusion with the family of the Duke of Leeds

Duke of Leeds

Duke of Leeds was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1694 for the prominent statesman Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen...

. The third Baronet was Governor of New York and Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Bedfordshire was a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency, which elected two Members of Parliament from 1295 until 1885, when it was divided into two constituencies under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.-History:...

. The fourth Baronet was a General in the British Army

British Army

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 and also represented Northampton

Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)

Northampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Northampton which existed until 1974.It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election...

, Bossiney

Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)

Bossiney was a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall, one of a number of Cornish rotten boroughs, and returned two Members of Parliament to the British House of Commons from 1552 until 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...

, Penrhyn and Horsham

Horsham (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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. The fifth Baronet was Member of Parliament for four constituencies and served as a Lord of the Admiralty under the Earl of Liverpool

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

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.

Dorothy Osborne

Dorothy Osborne

Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple was a British writer of letters and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet.-Life:Osborne was born at Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England, the youngest of ten children born to a staunchly Royalist family. Her father was the nobleman Sir Peter Osborne, who was the...

 (1627-1695) was the daughter of Sir Peter Osborne and sister of the first Baronet.

Osborne, later Osborn Baronets, of Chicksands (1662)

• Sir John Osborne, 1st Baronet (c. 1615-1699)
• Sir John Osborne, 2nd Baronet (c. 1650-1720)
• Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet (1715-1753)
• Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet
  Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet
  Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet was born into the British aristocracy. He fought in the American Revolutionary War as a British officer. He served as a Member of Parliament before, during, and after that conflict. In 1777 he led a detachment of the Guards Brigade at the battles of Brandywine and...
  
   (1742-1818)
• Sir John Osborn, 5th Baronet (1772-1848)
• Sir George Robert Osborn, 6th Baronet (1813-1892)
• Sir Algernon Kerr Butler Osborn, 7th Baronet (1870-1948)
• Sir Danvers Lionel Rouse Osborn, 8th Baronet (1916-1983)
• Sir Richard Henry Danvers Osborn, 9th Baronet (b. 1958)