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Paternal Family Tree: Osborne
Maternal Family Tree: Susanna Temple 1600
On 26th June 1740 [his father] Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds and [his mother] Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds were married. She by marriage Duchess Leeds. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Francis Godolphin 2nd Earl Godolphin and [his grandmother] Henrietta Churchill 2nd Duchess of Marlborough. He the son of [his grandfather] Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds.
On 29th January 1751 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds was born to Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds and Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds.
Around 1763 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds educated at Westminster School.
In 1764 [his mother] Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds died.
Around 1768 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds educated at Christ Church College, Oxford University.
Around 1769 Benjamin West. Portrait of Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds.
On 29th November 1773 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers were married. She the daughter of Robert Darcy 4th Earl Holderness. He the son of Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds and Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds.
In 1774 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds was elected MP Eye.
In 1774 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds was elected MP Helston.
On 21st July 1775 [his son] George William Frederick Osborne 6th Duke Leeds was born to Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and [his wife] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers.
On 7th September 1776 [his daughter] Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne Countess Chichester was born to Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and [his wife] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia.
In 1777 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds was appointed Captain of Deal Castle.
On 18th October 1777 [his son] Francis Osborne 1st Baron Godolphin was born to Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and [his wife] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers.
In 1779 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds divorced [his wife] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers since she had run off with John "Mad Jack" Byron the year before.
In 1779 John "Mad Jack" Byron and [his wife] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers were married. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Robert Darcy 4th Earl Holderness.
In 1780 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds was appointed Lord Lieutenant of East Riding Yorkshire.
On 27th January 1784 [his wife] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers died. [his son] George William Frederick Osborne 6th Duke Leeds succeeded 13th Baron Darcy of Knayth, 10th Baron Conyers.
In 1788 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and Catherine Anguish Duchess Leeds were married. He the son of Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds and Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds.
On 23rd March 1789 [his father] Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds died at St James' Square. He was buried at the Osborne Family Chapel at All Hallows' Church Harthill. Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds succeeded 5th Duke Leeds, 5th Earl of Danby, 5th Viscount Osborne, 5th Viscount Latimer, 5th Baron Osborne of Kinderton, 6th Baronet Osborne of Kiveton. [his wife] Catherine Anguish Duchess Leeds by marriage Duchess Leeds.
In 1790 King George III of Great Britain and Ireland created new Garter Knights as follows:
611th Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg Altenburg,
612th Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds,
613th John Pitt 2nd Earl Chatham.
On 17th August 1797 [his son] George William Frederick Osborne 6th Duke Leeds and [his daughter-in-law] Charlotte Townshend Duchess Leeds were married. She by marriage Baroness Darcy of Knayth, Baroness Conyers. She the daughter of George Townshend 1st Marquess Townshend and Anne Montgomery Marchioness Townshend. He the son of Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and [his former wife] Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers.
On 31st January 1799 Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds died. [his son] George William Frederick Osborne 6th Duke Leeds succeeded 6th Duke Leeds, 6th Earl of Danby, 6th Viscount Osborne, 6th Viscount Latimer, 6th Baron Osborne of Kinderton, 7th Baronet Osborne of Kiveton. [his daughter-in-law] Charlotte Townshend Duchess Leeds by marriage Duchess Leeds.
On 9th October 1837 [his former wife] Catherine Anguish Duchess Leeds died.
The Times. 24th December 1895. [his great grandson] The Duke of Leeds died at Hornby Castle, yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. He recently contracted a severe chill, which led to an attack of bronchitis. He took to his bed about a week ago and gradually sank. George Godolphin Osborne, ninth Duke of Leeds in the peerage of England, Marquis of Carmarthen, Earl of Danby, Viscount Latimer, and Baron Osbome of Kiveton, all in the peerage of England; Viscount Osbome and Viscount Dunblane in the peerage of Scotland; and Baron Godolphin of Paraham Royal, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, a baronet, and a Prince or the Holy Roman Empire, was born in Paris in 1828, the eldest son of the [his grandson] eighth duke. He married, in 1861, the Hon. Fanny Georgiana Pitt, daughter of the fourth Baron Rivers, who was born in 1836 and was Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1873. He was appointed captain in the North Yorks Militia in 1852, and resigued in 1859, but was reappoined in 1861. He succeeded to the family honours in 1872, and has issue living three sons and five daughters. The family descends from Sir Edward Osborne, knight, who was Vice-President of the Council of the North in 1629 and Lieutenant-General of the forces raised there against the Parliamentary Army in 1841. His son was Treasurer of the Navy and Lord High Chancellor, and as Earl of Danby was impeeched by the Commons in 1679. The fifth duke married [his former wife] Amelia, in her own right Baroness Conyers, but this title left the main line in 1859 on the death of the [his grandson] seventh duke. The late duke was nephew of the late Rev. Lord Sydney Godolphin Osborne, who wrote much over the familiar signature "S.G.O.," and brother of [his great grandson] Lord Francis George Godolphin Osborne, who was rector of Great Elm, but joined the Church of Rome in 1875. The Duke of Leeds is succeeded by his eldest surviving son, the Marquis of Carmarthen, who was born in 1862, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was formerly a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars. Lord Carmarthen unsuccessfully contested the Newmarket Division of Cambridgeshire as a Conservative in 1886, and has sat since July, 1887, for the Brixton Division of Lambeth, in which constituency his sucoession to the peerage now creates a vacancy. Lord Carmarthen was an assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary for the Colonies (Lord Knutsford) from 1886 to 1888. He was appointed Treasurer of the Household on the formation of the present Ministry. He married, in 1884, Lady Katherine Frances Lambton, daughter of the second Earl of Durham, and has issue four daughters.
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