Francis Osborne, 1st Baron Godolphin

His elder siblings were George Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds and Mary Pelham, Countess of Chichester.

[2] Shortly after his first birthday, his mother ran off with her lover Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron.

[4] On 14 May 1832, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Godolphin, of Farnham Royal, County of Buckingham.

They had five surviving children:[7] After a period of declining health, Lord Godolphin's died in 1850 at his home at Gog Magog House, Cambridgeshire.

The 8th Duke's surviving siblings, William and Sydney, were granted the rank of a younger son of a duke, becoming Lord William Osborne and Lord Sydney Osborne, respectively, in honour of their father, who would have inherited the dukedom had he not died in 1850.