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1668
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Henry Osborne
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Terry Foreman • Link
Henry Osborne, kt 1673. Member of the Brooke House Committee (1667-9) on war expenditure; in the third Dutch War a Commissioner of the Sick and Wounded. A brother of Dorothy Osborne, the letter-writer. Francis Osborne (d. 1659), author of *Advice to a Son*, one of Pepys's favourite books, was their uncle.
L&M Companion
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San Diego Sarah • Link
Dorothy Osborne's brother Henry (1618–1675), who was one of the small group of peers who escorted Charles II back to England, also strongly objected to the match, and kept a diary, partly in code, detailing his opposition to William Temple.
https://www.oxforddnb.com/display… -- You need a subscription.
Book about Dorothy and William's wartime courtship: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/…
San Diego Sarah • Link
A 1650's portrait of Sir Henry Osborne (1619-1675). He was the founder and first treasurer of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, and a patron of Sir Peter Lely, who stayed with him at the family's seat, Chicksands Priory in Bedfordshire.
The sitter is portrayed half-length, wearing black with a white collar.
https://www.wga.hu/html_m/l/lely/…