Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newtown Anner House ( Ralph Bernal; 26 March 1808 – 4 January 1882), was a

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Liberal politician.

Early life

He was born on 26 March 1808. He was the eldest son of London

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Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Parliamentarian Ralph Bernal, himself an MP, who died in 1854, and his wife Ann Elizabeth (née White). His paternal grandparents were Jacob Israel Bernal, a merchant, and Leah da Silva.

Career

Bernal entered the

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in 1831, as an

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of the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot. He later served with the 7th ( Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot, and finally left the army in 1844 with the rank of

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. He had already been elected to

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in 1841 as a member for Chipping Wycombe, in the Liberal interest, and later sat for

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(1847–1857),

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(1857–1859),

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(1859–1865),

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(1866–1868), and

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City (1870–1874). In the ''Railway Times'' of 21 June 1845, he is the first person listed in the provisional committee for the Leicester, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton-upon-Trent and Stafford Junction Railway: Ralph R. Bernal Osborne, MP for Wycombe, address: Albemarle Street. The railway was never built. Beside being a Parliamentarian, he was also Secretary of the Admiralty. When he died, his house at Newtown Anner,

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, Ireland, was surrounded by more than of land.

Personal life

On 20 August 1844 he married Catherine Isabella Osborne (1819–1880), from an

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landed family, the daughter of Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet, and Catherine Rebecca Smith. On the same day of their wedding, he took her name and his name was legally changed by royal licence, becoming Ralph Bernal Osborne. Together, they were the parents of two daughters: * Edith Bernal Osborne (1846–1926), who married, as his second wife, Sir Henry Arthur Blake, the son of Peter Blake of Corbally Castle, in 1874. * Grace Bernal Osborne (1848–1926), who married, as his second wife, William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, in 1874. His wife died on 21 June 1880 at Newtown Anner House in

. Osborne died on 4 January 1882.

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather of three, Olive Blake (who married John Bernard Arbuthnot), Lt. Arthur Blake, and Maurice Bernal Blake. Through his younger daughter, he was a grandfather of Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans, Lady Moyra de Vere Beauclerk (wife of Lord Richard Cavendish, a grandson of the 7th Duke of Devonshire), Lady Katherine de Vere Beauclerk (wife of Henry Somerset, a grandson of the 8th Duke of Beaufort, and secondly, Maj.-Gen. Sir William Lambton, a son of the 2nd Earl of Durham), Lady Alexandra de Vere Beauclerk, and Lord William Huddlestone de Vere Beauclerk, who both died unmarried.

Sources

* Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 2, p. 3031.

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