Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne (5 February 1808 – 9 May 1889) was an English cleric, philanthropist and writer.

[1] Osborne was educated at Rugby School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A.

In 1841 he accepted the living of Durweston in Dorset, which was in the gift of Lord Portman, and he occupied it until 1875.

[1] Osborne commented on free trade, education, women's rights, sanitation, cattle plague, and cholera.

His other writings included:[1] Osborne married in 1834 Emily, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell of Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire; and was therefore brother-in-law to Charles Kingsley and James Anthony Froude.