Edward Osborne

Edward Osborne, JP (21 January 1861 – 21 January 1939) was a British businessman and politician. He was the secretary for the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company (1889–1913), member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1906–1913), and Mayor of Hythe (1922–24).

Biography Osborne was born on 2 January 1861. He was a son of Charles Osborne and wife Ann Geary and grandson of Sir Henry Osborne, 11th Baronet and second wife Elizabeth Harding. He was educated at St. Anne's and Streatham Hill. He entered a solicitor firm in Durham after graduation. In 1880, he left the firm and joined P&O and was sent to the Hong Kong offices in on 11 May 1882.

On 20 April 1889, Osborne joined the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company. As secretary he encountered innumerable difficulties arising out of the organised attempts of the Chinese guilds to oppose the progress of the foreigner. - 4 July 1968), who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society (FRHS), daughter of Llewellyn Harvey Matthews of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and had two children, and married secondly in April 1969 Mary Enid Lyon, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), daughter of Horace Lyon of Goole, Yorkshire, without issue: Anthony Trevor Osborne (? – 2 November 1934), educated at his father's Alma Mater Felsted School, Felsted, Essex, and graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, with a Master of Arts (MA), registered as a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE) and as a Certified Engineer (CEng) and lived in 2003 at 22 St. Peter's Way, Edgmond, Newport, Shropshire, married on 20 December 1958 Beryl Anne Shadbolt, daughter of Donald George Shadbolt of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, and had three children: Catherine Frances Osborne (b. 15 September 1961) Nicola Clare Osborne (b. 13 December 1963) Marcus Duncan Fitzwilliam Osborne (b. 20 February 1967) Edward Peter Osborne (20 February 1938 – 3 February 2002), usually went by his middle name of Peter, educated at his father's Alma Mater Felsted School, Felsted, Essex, and graduated from Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), married on 3 April 1961 Marjorie Newton, daughter of William Newton of Fleetwood, Lancashire, and had three children: Judith Carol Osborne (b. 4 March 1962) John Philip Osborne (b. 20 February 1963) Janet Elizabeth Osborne (b. 29 March 1964) Nora Gladys Osborne (31 August 1906 – 6 August 1998) Aline Grace Osborne (2 August 1909 – 22 April 1970)