Osborn baronets

[1] Osborne was the son of Sir Peter Osborne, Governor of Guernsey, and great-grandson of Peter Osborne, who acquired the family seat of Chicksands Priory in 1576 and was Remembrancer of the Treasury to Henry VIII, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Edward VI and Commissioner of Ecclesiastical Affairs to Elizabeth I.

She was engaged to Henry Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell, and also pressured to marry Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, but eventually married Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, whom she truly loved.

The correspondence between Dorothy and William during their lengthy separation is one of the "great monuments of epistolary literature".

The fourth Baronet was a General in the British Army and also represented Northampton, Bossiney, Penrhyn and Horsham in the House of Commons.

The fifth Baronet was Member of Parliament for four constituencies and served as a Lord of the Admiralty under the Earl of Liverpool.