Richard Osbaldeston (6 January 1691 – 15 May 1764) was a

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clergyman,

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from 1747 to 1762 and

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from 1762 to 1764.

Life

Osbaldeston was born at

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on 6 January 1690/1, the second son of Sir Richard Osbaldeston and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Fountayne of Melton, Yorkshire. Sir Richard was the head of the Yorkshire branch of an old

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family, son of William Osbaldeston , son of Sir Richard Osbaldeston, Attorney-General for Ireland (Bishop Osbaldeston's great-grandfather). Two of Bishop Osbaldeston's brothers (William and Fountayne) went on to serve as MP for

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, their grandfather's former constituency. Through his paternal grandmother Anne Wentworth, he was related to

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, Lord Deputy of Ireland, with whom the Attorney-General had been closely associated. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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in 1707, graduating

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1711,

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1714,

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1726. He was a Fellow of

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1714–1717. He was a chaplain to Kings

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and George II, and a tutor to King

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. In the church, he held the following positions: *Rector of

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, North Riding of Yorkshire, 1714–47 *Vicar of

, East Riding of Yorkshire, 1715–62 *Rector of

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, East Riding of Yorkshire, 1727–62 *

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, 1728–47 *

, 1747–62 *

, 1762–64, and

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He became Bishop of Carlisle in 1747. He was mostly non-resident in Carlisle, and neglected the diocese, leaving

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and the bishop's residence

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in disarray. He was not highly regarded as a bishop, but he was translated to London in 1762, "to nobody's joy that I know of" according to Richard Hurd, while Archbishop

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considered him "in every way unequal to the situation". As Bishop of London, he objected to a plan to commemorate a former lord mayor with a statue in

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, despite Archbishop Secker's approval, on the grounds that such monuments were not part of

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's design. He was a patron of

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.''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''

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External links

Material relating to Bishop Osbaldeston at Lambeth Palace Library
1691 births 1764 deaths People educated at Beverley Grammar School Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Bishops of Carlisle Bishops of London Deans of the Chapel Royal Deans of York 18th-century Church of England bishops Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge Honorary chaplains to the King People from Hunmanby {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub