Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet [SEP] noble title
Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet, MP (1618 – 2 March 1685) was an Irish baronet and politician.
Biography.
Osborne was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1628 and sat as a Member of Parliament for Dungarvan in the Irish House of Commons between 1639 and 1649.
The eldest surviving son of Sir Richard Osborne and wife Mary daughter of Roger Dalton, of Knockmahon, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1667 and served as High Sheriff of County Waterford for
Regimental Colonels.
Colonels of the regiment were:
- 1877–1881 (1st Battalion): Gen. Sir Richard Waddy (ex 63rd Foot)
- 1877–1881 (2nd Battalion): Gen. Thomas Maitland Wilson (ex 96th Foot)
- 1881–1889: Gen. Edmund Richard Jeffreys, CB
- 1889–1895: Gen. John McNeill Walter, CB
- 1895–1899: Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Radford Norman, KCB
- 1899–1904: Lt-Gen. Vere Hunt Bowles
- 1904–1920: Maj-Gen. William Osborne