Sir George Francis Osborne, 16th Baronet

Sir George Francis Osborne, 16th Baronet, (27 July 1894 – 21 July 1960) was an Anglo-Irish baronet and British Army officer. He was decorated for gallantry during the First World War.

Biography

Osborne was born on 27 July 1894. He was the eldest son of Sir Francis Osborne, 15th Baronet and wife Kathleen Eliza née Whitfield, of Framfield Grange, Sussex.

Osborne was educated at Repton School, Derbyshire before entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Berkshire.

Career Osborne fought with distinction in the First World War, receiving mentions in despatches.

Wounded in combat twice, Osborne was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and was promoted major in 1932 before retiring from regular service with the Royal Sussex Regiment in the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Osborne succeeded to the family title, the Osborne Baronetcy of Ballentaylor and Ballylemonon, on 23 October 1948.

Personal life and death On 27 February 1938 Osborne married Mary Grace Horn (1903–1987), daughter of Clement Samuel Horn (1871–1946) and Juliet Ivy Sceales (1881–1969), of Goring-by-Sea, Sussex. His wife had previously been married to Robert Stavali Aspinall, a British Army surgeon, by whom she had had a son, the zoo and casino owner John Victor Aspinall.

Osborne and his wife had four children: Jennifer Jane Osborne (1939–2022) Caroline Mary Osborne (b. 1941) Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, of Highclere, Hampshire (b. 1943), father of George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer James Francis Osborne (b. 1946)

He died on 21 July 1960.