Charles Rex Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Members of the Family Currently Played Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby [NPC] Peregrine Osborne, Viscount Osborne, son of Thomas Osborne [NPC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Rex Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Thomas Osborne Full Name: Thomas Osborne Nationality: Scottish Title: Earl of Danby Age: 45 (b. 1632) Gender: Male Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blond Marital Status: Married Physical Attributes and Personality John Evelyn, described him as "a man of excellent natural parts but nothing of generousity or gratefulness." The Earl of Shaftesbury described him as "proud, ambitious, revengeful, false, prodigal and covetous to the highest degree." His corruption, his submission to a tyrannical wife, his greed, his pale face and lean person, which had replaced the handsome features and comeliness of earlier days, were the subject of public ridicule. Background The son of Sir Edward Osborne, Bart., of Kiveton, Yorkshire. He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne (d. 1591), Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne (d. 1585), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married. Thomas Osborne, the future Lord Treasurer, succeeded to the baronetcy and estates in Yorkshire on his father's death in 1647, and after unsuccessfully courting his cousin Dorothy Osborne, married Lady Bridget Bertie, daughter of the Earl of Lindsey. Osborne was introduced to public life and to court by his neighbor in Yorkshire, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was elected MP for York in 1665, and gained the "first step in his future rise" by joining Buckingham in his attack on the Earl of Clarendon in 1667. In 1668 he was appointed joint treasurer of the navy with Sir Thomas Lyttelton, and subsequently sole treasurer. He succeeded Sir William Coventry as commissioner for the state treasury in 1669, and in 1673 was appointed a commissioner for the admiralty. He was created Viscount Osborne in the Scottish peerage on February 2, 1673, and a privy councillor on May 3. On June 19, on the resignation of Lord Clifford, he was appointed Lord High Treasurer and made Baron Osborne of Kiveton and Viscount Latimer in the peerage of England, while on June 27, 1674, he was created Earl of Danby, when he surrendered his Scottish peerage of Osborne to his second son Peregrine Osborne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Rex Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Peregrine Osborne Full Name: Peregrine Osborne Nationality: Scottish Title: Viscount Osborne (courtesy) Age: 18 (b.1659) Gender: Male Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blond Marital Status: Single Physical Attributes and Personality Resembling his father in looks only, Peregrine is a comely man, with a relaxed and cheerful view upon life, seeking out fun, and not taking anything very seriously. Background The second son of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and Lady Bridget Bertie, daughter of the Earl of Lindsey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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