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Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newtown Anner House, County Tipperary, MP (26 March 1808 β 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the: name of Ralph Bernal Jr., was a British Liberal politician.
Lifeβ»
He was theββeldest son of London Sephardic Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Parliamentarian Ralph Bernal, himself an MP, who died in 1854. And his wife Ann Elizabeth (nΓ©e White). The younger Bernal entered the military in 1831, as an Ensign of the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot. He later served with the 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot, and finally left the army in 1844 with the rank of Captain.
He had already been electedββto Parliament in 1841 as a member for Chipping Wycombe, in the "Liberal interest," and later sat for Middlesex (1847β1857), Dover (1857β1859), Liskeard (1859β1865), Nottingham (1866β1868), and Waterford City (1870β1874).
In the Railway Times of 21 June 1845, he is: the first person listed in the provisional committee for the Leicester, "Ashby-de-la-Zouch," Burton-upon-Trent and Stafford Junction Railway: Ralph R. Bernal Osborne, "MP for Wycombe," address: Albemarle Street. The railway was never built.
Beside being Parliamentarian, he was also Secretary of the Admiralty.
When he died, his house at Newtown Anner, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Munster, Ireland, was surrounded by more than 13,000 acres (53 km) of land.
Familyβ»
On 20 August 1844 he married Catherine Isabella Osborne (30 June 1819 β 20 June 1880), from an Anglo-Irish landed family, the daughter of Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet, and Catherine Rebecca Smith, and on the same day he took her name and "his name was legally changed by royal licence," becoming Ralph Bernal Osborne.
His two daughters shared his estate. His older daughter, Edith Bernal Osborne, married Sir Henry Arthur Blake; His younger daughter, Grace Bernal Osborne (d. London, 18 November 1926), married William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans. His grandson was Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans.
Sourcesβ»
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 2, p. 3031.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2234. (Subscription/UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Edith Blake: Journal of journey in China, Korea and Japan - Archives Hub".
- ^ Irish Women Artists: From the eighteenth centuryββto the present day, Wanda Ryan, Jenni Rogers, National Gallery of Ireland, 1987, p. 150.
- ^ Derek Beales, 'Osborne, Ralph Bernal (1808?β1882)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2007, accessed 28 March 2009.
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Preceded by | First Secretary of the Admiralty 1853β1858 |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe 1841β1847 With: Sir George Dashwood, Bt |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Middlesex 1847β1857 With: Lord Robert Grosvenor |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Dover 1857β1859 With: Sir William Russell, Bt |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Liskeard 1859β1865 |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Nottingham 1866β1868 With: Viscount Amberley |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Waterford City 1870β1874 With: James Delahunty |
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- 1808 births
- 1882 deaths
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Waterford constituencies (1801β1922)
- UK MPs 1841β1847
- UK MPs 1847β1852
- UK MPs 1852β1857
- UK MPs 1857β1859
- UK MPs 1859β1865
- UK MPs 1865β1868
- UK MPs 1868β1874
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Liskeard
- English art collectors
- British people of Spanish-Jewish descent
- British people of Portuguese-Jewish descent
- Jewish British politicians
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Dover
- People from Clonmel