The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Osborne, Sydney Godolphin

OSBORNE, Lord Sydney Godolphin, an English philanthropist, born Feb. 5, 1808, died in 1873. He was the third son of the first Lord Godolphin, and brother of the present duke of Leeds. He graduated at Oxford in 1830, and became rector of Stoke Pogis, and in 1841 of Durweston, Dorsetshire. He has published “Gleanings in the West of Ireland” (London, 1850), the result of a visit to Ireland during the famine of 1847; “Lady Eva, her Last Days, a Tale” (1851); “Scutari and its Hospitals” (1855), which he visited and aided in improving; and many brief essays for the promotion of various charities.