Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby was an English soldier. Outlawed after a killing in 1594, he regained favour after successful military service in Ireland and was raised to the Peerage of England in 1
Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby in a portrait of the 1630s by Anthony van Dyck.
The Danby gateway to the University of Oxford Botanic Garden built in 1633.
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, was an English Tory statesman. During the reign of Charles II of England, he was the leading figure in the English government for roughly five years in the mid-1670s
Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby
…of the regency from 9 August to 25 November 1641. He never married, and upon his death the barony of Danvers and the earldom of Danby became extinct. Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, best known to history as the Earl of Danby, was his great-nephew. Towards the close of his life, he suffered from bad health and lived principally in…
Portrait by Johann Kerseboom, c. 1704
Osborne's coat of arms
Thomas Osborne, Lord Danby, painted in Charles II's reign by Peter Lely (1618–1680)
Thomas Osborne, after Peter Lely, depicted as Lord High Treasurer of England