Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet
Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet, MP (1757 – 3 June 1821) was an Irish baronet and politician. Biography. He was the eldest son of Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet and his wife Elizabeth "née" Christmas, daughter of Thomas Christmas and Elizabeth Marshall. Sir Thomas sat as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Carysfort between 1776 and 1797 and served as High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1795, having succeeded to the baronetcy upon his father's death in 1783. Marriage and issue. Osborne married on 6 April 1816 at St. Margaret 's Church, Rochester, Kent, Catherine Rebecca Smith (1796 - 10 October 1856). Catherine Rebecca Smith was the daughter of Major Robert Smith RM (1754 - Chatham, Kent, 2 July 1813) and his wife Margaret Ramsay (1766 - Newtown, Ireland, April 1839), and a granddaughter of the Revd James Ramsay and his wife Rebecca Akers. Sir Thomas and Lady Osborne had two children: