Sir Samuel Osborne-Gibbes, 2nd Baronet (27 August 1803 – 12 November 1874) was a British Army officer, Freemason, plantation owner and politician.
He served as a Page of Honour to the Prince of Wales—later King George IV of Great Britain—and before entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1817 as an officer cadet,[1] he was educated by private tutors in London and Paris under the supervision of his aunt and Agnes Gibbes (1761–1843).
[3] He inherited a sugar plantation on Barbados from his father[1] and resided there from 1821 until 1833, when the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act and freed the island's slaves.
He returned to England to live with his wife, Margaret (née Moore, the grand niece of the Earl of Clonmell), whom he had married in Ireland on 28 September 1825.
The Second Baronet's two marital unions produced a number of children, including the initial heir to the baronetcy, Lieutenant Philip Osborne-Gibbes, of the 41st Bengal Native Infantry, who died while on military service at Multan in 1850, aged 24.
Osborne-Gibbes remained in Sydney for about four years, residing in Argyle Place and being embraced by the upper tier of colonial society.
He acquired 279 acres (1.13 km2) of farming land at Whangārei, on New Zealand's North Island, erected a house (which he called "Springhead" after his former residence on Barbados), and went on to play a part in the public affairs of the surrounding district.
[7] The Bishop of Auckland, William Cowie, conducted the funeral service, which was attended by friends, community leaders, Masons and soldiers.