page_title: Richard Osbaldeston (Attorney General)
section_title: Background and early career
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Osbaldeston (Attorney General) / Background and early career
caption_attribution_description: All Saints Church, Hunmanby, North Yorkshire
context_page_description: Sir Richard Osbaldeston was an English barrister who became Attorney General for Ireland. He was the great-grandfather of Richard Osbaldeston, Bishop of London.
context_section_description: He was born in Lancashire, probably at Sefton. His father Edward Osbaldeston (died 1639), belonged to an ancient Lancashire family, the  Osbaldestons  of Osbaldeston. Edward's father,  the youngest son of a large family,  made an advantageous marriage to Margaret Molyneux,  daughter of  Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet and Frances Gerard. Margaret's father was head   of the family which later acquired the title Earl of Sefton, and her mother was a daughter of  the prominent judge  Sir Gilbert Gerard, Master of the Rolls. They were also related to the Earl of Derby, and profited from this connection. By the 1620s the Osbaldestons  were rich enough to buy the Manor of Hunmanby in Yorkshire, where they remained until the family died out in the 1830s.
  Richard entered Gray's Inn and was called to the Bar. Few details of his  career as a  barrister survive but it is likely that he practiced in York, where he was living at the time of his first marriage in 1612.
caption: All Saint's Church, Hunmanby- Richard's family were the local landowners  here for centuries
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