Biography of George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds 1802-1872

Paternal Family Tree: Osborne

Maternal Family Tree: Eleanor Elliot

On 31 Mar 1800 [his father] Francis Osborne 1st Baron Godolphin (age 22) and [his mother] Elizabeth Charlotte Eden Baroness Godolphin (age 20) were married. He the son of Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds and Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers. He a great x 5 grandson of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.

On 16 Jul 1802 George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds was born to Francis Osborne 1st Baron Godolphin (age 24) and Elizabeth Charlotte Eden Baroness Godolphin (age 22).

In 1805 William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne (age 25) and [his future sister-in-law] Caroline Ponsonby Viscountess Melbourne (age 19) were married. She the daughter of Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl Bessborough (age 46) and Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough (age 43).

On 21 Oct 1824 George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 22) and Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 24) were married at the British Embassy, Paris. She the daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Granville (age 51) and Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough. They were fourth cousins.

On 16 Mar 1825 [his brother-in-law] Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (age 41) and Emily Bathurst (age 27) were married. She the daughter of Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst (age 62) and Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst (age 59). He the son of Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl Bessborough (age 67) and Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 25 Jan 1828 [his sister-in-law] Caroline Ponsonby Viscountess Melbourne (age 42) died.

On 11 Aug 1828 [his son] George Godolphin Osborne 9th Duke Leeds was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 26) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 27).

On 06 Apr 1830 [his son] Francis George Osborne was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 27) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 29).

On 06 Apr 1830 [his daughter] Susan Georgina Osborne was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 27) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 29).

On 14 Jun 1834 [his son] Darcy Osborne was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 31) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 33).

On 28 Aug 1835 [his son] William Osborne was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 33) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 35).

In 1837 [his daughter] Emma Charlotte Osborne was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 34) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 36).

On 11 Jan 1837 [his brother-in-law] Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (age 53) died.

In 1838 [his daughter] Charlotte Osborne Lady Broadhead was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 35) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 37).

In 1842 [his daughter] Blanche Osborne was born to George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 39) and [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 41).

Adeline Horsey Recollections. After mamma's death I kept house for papa at 8 Upper Grosvenor Street. My brothers were rarely at home. William (age 17) was educated at Eton [Map], and when he was sixteen years old the Duke of Wellington (age 73) gave him a commission in the Grenadier Guards. Later he went through the Crimean War, and he retired from the Army in 1883, on account of ill-health, with the rank of Lieutenant-General.

Algernon (age 16) entered the Navy in 1840 as a midshipman, and the same year took part in the operations on the coast of Syria. After the battle of Acre he received the Turkish medal and clasps: his promotion was rapid, and as Admiral, his flagship, the Shah, engaged the Huascar, which he forced to surrender to the Peruvian authorities.

Now that I was so much alone I occasionally found time hang heavy on my hands, and I welcomed any excitement as a break in the monotony, for of course our period of mourning prevented us entertaining or accepting invitations. One day my maid told me about a fortune-teller who had a wonderful gift for predicting the future. I was very much interested, and made up my mind to consult the oracle. My maid attempted to dissuade me, saying that the woman lived in Bridge Street, Westminster, which was not at all a nice neighbourhood. I have always had my own way and, disguised in a borrowed cloak, bonnet and thick veil, and accompanied by my protesting servant, I started off to Bridge Street late one November afternoon.

It was dusk when we reached Westminster and found Bridge Street, badly lighted and evil-smelling. We knocked at the door, stated whom we wished to see, and we were ushered through a dark passage into a dirty room reeking of tobacco.

The fortune-teller was a wrinkled old woman who was smoking a short clay pipe with evident enjoyment. When I told her what I had come for, she produced a greasy pack of cards, and after I had "crossed her pahn" she commenced to tell my future.

"Ah!" said she at last, and she looked curiously, "my pretty young lady, fate holds a great deal in store for you. You will not marry for several years, but when you do it will be to a widower - a man in a high position. You will suffer much unkindness before you experience real happiness, you will obtain much and lose much, you will marry again after your husband's death, and you will live to a great age".

I was quite impressed by my "fortune", but I was a little disappointed, for like most girls I had my day-dreams of a young husband, and the prospect of a widower was thus rather depressing.

Strangely enough, the prediction came true, for Lord Cardigan (age 45) was a widower, and nearly all the men who proposed to me were widowers ! I was asked in marriage by Lord Sherborne (age 38), a widower with ten children; by the Duke of Leeds (age 40), who was a widower with eleven children, and by Christopher Maunsell Talbot (age 39), once Father of the House of Commons, also a widower with four children. Prince Soltykoff, the Duke of St. Albans (age 41), Harry Howard, and Disraeli (age 38) were other widowers who proposed to me, so I suppose I must have had some unaccountable fascination for bereaved husbands.

In 1847 [his mother] Elizabeth Charlotte Eden Baroness Godolphin (age 67) died.

On 15 Feb 1850 [his father] Francis Osborne 1st Baron Godolphin (age 72) died. His son George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 47) succeeded 2nd Baron Godolphin of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire. [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 49) by marriage Baroness Godolphin of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire.

On 01 Jun 1851 [his brother-in-law] Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower (age 32) and Margaret Compton (age 21) were married at St Margaret's Church, Westminster [Map]. She the daughter of Spencer Compton 2nd Marquess Northampton and Margaret Douglas-Maclean-Clephane Marchioness Northampton. He the son of Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Granville and Harriet Cavendish Countess Granville (age 65).

On 28 Oct 1852 [his wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds (age 52) died.

On 04 May 1859 Francis Godolphin Osborne 7th Duke Leeds (age 60) died. He was buried at the Osborne Family Chapel All Hallows' Church Harthill [Map]. His first cousin George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 56) succeeded 8th Duke Leeds, 8th Earl of Danby, 8th Viscount Osborne, 8th Viscount Latimer, 8th Baron Osborne of Kinderton, 9th Baronet Osborne of Kiveton. [his former wife] Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds by marriage Duchess Leeds. His nephew Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 31) succeeded 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth, 12th Baron Conyers.

On 16 Jan 1861 [his son] George Godolphin Osborne 9th Duke Leeds (age 32) and [his daughter-in-law] Fanny Georgiana Pitt-Rivers Duchess Leeds (age 24) were married. He the son of George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 58) and Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds. They were half first cousins.

On 22 Jun 1864 [his son-in-law] Henry John Milbank (age 40) and [his daughter] Susan Georgina Osborne (age 34) were married. She the daughter of George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 61) and Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart Duchess Leeds.

In 1866 [his former sister-in-law] Susan Georgiana Leveson-Gower Baroness Rivers (age 56) died.

On 08 Aug 1872 George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds (age 70) died. His son [his son] George Godolphin Osborne 9th Duke Leeds (age 43) succeeded 9th Duke Leeds, 9th Earl of Danby, 9th Viscount Osborne, 9th Viscount Latimer, 9th Baron Osborne of Kinderton, 10th Baronet Osborne of Kiveton, 3rd Baron Godolphin of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire. [his daughter-in-law] Fanny Georgiana Pitt-Rivers Duchess Leeds (age 35) by marriage Duchess Leeds.

The Times. 24 Dec 1895. [his son] The Duke of Leeds (deceased) died at Hornby Castle [Map], 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 (deceased) 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 eighth duke. He married, in 1861, the Hon. [his former daughter-in-law] Fanny Georgiana Pitt (age 58), 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 [his grandfather] fifth duke married [his grandmother] Amelia, in her own right Baroness Conyers, but this title left the main line in 1859 on the death of the 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 son] Lord Francis George Godolphin Osborne (age 65), 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 (age 33), 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 (age 33), daughter of the second Earl of Durham, and has issue four daughters.

Royal Ancestors of George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds 1802-1872

Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of Robert "The Bruce" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France

Ancestors of George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds 1802-1872

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hyde 2nd Baronet

Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Godolphin

Great x 3 Grandfather: Sidney Godolphin 1st Earl Godolphin 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Berkeley 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Godolphin 2nd Earl Godolphin 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Blagge

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Blagge

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary North

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Winston Churchill

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Churchill 1st Duke Marlborough 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Drake 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Henrietta Churchill 2nd Duchess Marlborough 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Jennings

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sarah Jennings Duchess Marlborough

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Thornhurst

Father: Francis Osborne 1st Baron Godolphin 5 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Conyers Darcy 2nd Earl Holderness 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Darcy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Howard 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 3rd Earl Holderness 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Sutton 1st Baron Lexinton

Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Sutton 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary St Leger Baroness Lexington 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 4th Earl Holderness 3 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Schomberg 1st Duke Schomberg 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Meinhart Schomberg 3rd Duke Schomberg 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Frederica Schomberg Countess Holderness and Fitzwalter 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Louis Palatinate Simmern Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Karoline von der Pfalz Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Susanne Luise von Degenfeld

GrandMother: Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

George Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke Leeds 6 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Eden 1st Baronet

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Eden 2nd Baronet

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Lambton

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Lambton

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Eden 3rd Baronet

Great x 3 Grandfather: Mark Shafto of Whitworth in County Durham

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Shafto

GrandFather: William Eden 1st Baron Auckland

Mother: Elizabeth Charlotte Eden Baroness Godolphin

Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert Elliot 1st Baronet

Great x 2 Grandfather: Gilbert Elliot 2nd Baronet

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Elliot 3rd Baronet

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Steuart 1st Baronet

Great x 2 Grandmother: Helen Steuart

GrandMother: Eleanor Elliot