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
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
Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet, of Kiveton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1640.
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
…Osborne was again the leading figure in England's government for a few years in the early 1690s before dying in 1712. Osborne was the son of Sir Edward Osborne, Baronet of Kiveton, Yorkshire, and his second wife Anne Walmesley, widow of Thomas Middleton; she was a niece of Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby…
Monument to Lady Margaret Osborne (née Belasyse, died 1624), Sir Edward Osborne's first wife, at Harthill church