OSBORN, Sir Danvers, 3rd Bt. (1715-53), of Chicksands, nr. Biggleswade, Beds.

The Osborns acquired the manor and site of the dissolved priory of Chicksands in 1587.VCH Beds. ii. 271. Sir Danvers Osborn, who succeeded to the baronetcy as a child, was returned unopposed as a government supporter for the county in 1747 in succession to his brother-in-law, Sir Roger Burgoyne. The 2nd Lord Egmont in his electoral survey c.1749-50 marked him as ‘to continue-not an improper man’. When he applied for a vacant place at the board of Green Cloth in 1752, Pelham described him as a ‘very good man but I am afraid the Duke of Bedford would give him trouble in his re-election’,Pelham to Newcastle, 29 Sept. 1752, Add. 32729, f. 396. but the King ‘knew nothing’ of him,Newcastle to Pelham, 12 Oct. 1752, Oct. 1752. Add. 32730, f. 74. so he was not appointed. Next year he vacated his seat on being made governor of New York, where he died by his own hand on 12 Oct. 1753,Collectanea Top. et Gen. iii. 127; Bd. Trade Jnl. 1750-3, p. 467. a few days after his arrival.