Richard Osbaldeston

Richard Osbaldeston (6 January 1691 – 15 May 1764) was a Church of England clergyman, Bishop of Carlisle from 1747 to 1762 and Bishop of London from 1762 to 1764.

Life Osbaldeston was born at Hunmanby, Yorkshire on 6 January 1690/1, Sir Richard was the head of the Yorkshire branch of an old Lancashire family, son of William Osbaldeston , son of Sir Richard Osbaldeston, Attorney-General for Ireland (Bishop Osbaldeston's great-grandfather). Two of Bishop Osbaldeston's brothers (William and Fountayne) went on to serve as MP for Scarborough, their grandfather's former constituency. Through his paternal grandmother Anne Wentworth, he was related to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland, with whom the Attorney-General had been closely associated.

He was educated at Beverley Grammar School, and matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1707, graduating B.A. 1711, M.A. 1714, D.D. 1726. He was a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge 1714–1717.

He was a chaplain to Kings George I and George II, and a tutor to King George III. In the church, he held the following positions: