OSBORNE, John (?1549-1628), of Ivy Lane, London and Chicksands, Beds.

b. ?1549,Osborne’s will, PCC 25 Ridley, suggests he was born in 1549; Venn, Al. Cant. iii. 285, gives 1551 and Peter Osborne’s i.p.m., C142/249/59, suggests 1559, which is much too late. For other facts in this paragraph see DNB (Osborne, Peter). 1st s. of Peter Osborne and bro. of Christopher. educ. Eton, King’s scholar 1565; King’s, Camb. 1568, BA 1573, fellow 1571-4; L. Inn 1574. m. Dorothy, da. of Richard Barlee of Easingham Hall, Essex, lady of privy chamber to Anne of Denmark, 5s. 1da. suc. fa. 1592. Kntd. 1619.