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Duke of Leeds

Duke of Leedswas a title in thePeerage of England.It was created in 1694 for the prominent statesmanThomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen,who had been one of theImmortal Sevenin theRevolution of 1688.He had already succeeded as 2nd Baronet, of Kiveton (1647)[1]and been createdViscount Osborne,of Dunblane (1673),Baron Osborne,of Kiveton in the County of York (also 1673) andViscount Latimer,of Danby in the County of York (also 1673),Earl of Danby,in the County of York (1674), andMarquess of Carmarthen(1689). All these titles were in the Peerage of England, except for the viscountcy of Osborne, which was in thePeerage of Scotland.[note 1]He resigned the latter title in favour of his son in 1673. The Earldom of Danby was a revival of the title held by his great-uncle,Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby(seeEarl of Danby).[2]

Dukedom of Leeds
Quarterly, 1st & 4th: quarterly ermine and azure, over all a cross or(for Osborne);2nd, gules, an eagle with two heads display, between three fleur-de-lis argent(for Godolphin);3rd, azure, semé of cross-crosslets and three cinquefoils argent(for D'Arcy)
Creation date4 May 1694
Created byWilliam IIIandMary II
PeeragePeerage of England
First holderThomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
Last holderD'Arcy Osborne, 12th Duke of Leeds
Remainder tothe first Duke'sheirs maleof the bodylawfully begotten
Subsidiary titles
  • Marquess of Carmarthen
  • Earl of Danby
  • Viscount Osborne
  • Viscount Latimer
  • Viscount Dunblane
  • Baron Godolphin
Extinction date20 March 1964
Seat(s)Hornby Castle
Former seat(s)Kiveton Hall
Kiveton Hall

History

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The Dukedom was named forLeedsinYorkshire,and did not (as is sometimes claimed) refer toLeeds Castlein Kent. The principal ducal seat wasKiveton Hall.[3]After Kiveton Hall was demolished in 1811,Hornby Castlebecame the main seat of the Dukes of Leeds.[4]The traditional burial place of the Dukes of Leeds wasAll Hallows Church, Harthill, South Yorkshire.[2]

The4th DukemarriedMary Godolphin,daughter ofHenrietta Churchill Godolphin,suo jureDuchess of Marlborough,andThe 2nd Earl of Godolphin,and assumed the arms of Godolphin and Churchill.[5]

On 8 August 1849,The 7th Duke of Leedsassumed by royal licence the additional surname and arms of D'Arcy, for the separate baronies ofD'Arcy(1322) andConyersthat he inherited through his grandmother.[6][7]

Upon the death of the 7th Duke in 1859, the dukedom passed to his cousin,The 2nd Baron Godolphin,whose father (the second son ofThe 5th Duke of Leeds) had been createdBaron Godolphin,of Farnham Royal in the County of Buckingham, in 1832.[2]

The 11th Duke was married three times; he had a daughter,Lady Camilla Osborne,but no son. Upon his death in 1963, the dukedom passed to his cousin,Sir D'Arcy Osborne,a diplomat.[8]Eight months later, the 12th Duke died inRome,unmarried, at which point the dukedom and theBarony of Godolphinbecame extinct.[9]

Theheir apparentto the Duke of Leeds was styledMarquess of Carmarthen;Lord Carmarthen's heir apparent was styledEarl of Danby;and Lord Danby's heir apparent was styledViscount Latimer.

Osborne Baronets, of Kiveton (1620)

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  • Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet(1596–1647)
  • Sir Thomas Osborne, 2nd Baronet (1632–1712) (createdViscount Osbornein 1673,Earl of Danbyin 1674,Marquess of Carmarthenin 1689 andDuke of Leedsin 1694)

Dukes of Leeds (1694)

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Other titles (6th & 7th Dukes):Baron Darcy de Knayth(1322) andBaron Conyers(1509)
Other titles (8th Duke onwards):Baron Godolphin(1832)

Family tree

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  • Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
  • All Hallows Church, Harthill, South Yorkshire
  • Ancestral arms of the Osborne family:Quarterly ermine and azure, over all a cross or
  • The sign for the Duke of Leeds public house, Leedstown, Cornwall

Notes

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  1. ^Some sources indicate that Osborne held two Scottish viscountcies – "of Osborne" and "of Dunblane", although this may be a confusion of the full form "Osborne of Dunblane".

References

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  1. ^George Edward Cokayne (1900),Complete Baronetage,Volume 1
  2. ^abcGenealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire.Burke's Peerage.1914. pp. 1181–1183.Retrieved18 September2017.
  3. ^rotherhamweb.co.uk: HarthillArchived24 December 2015 at theWayback Machine.Retrieved 18 December 2015
  4. ^"Osborne family, Dukes of Leeds".The National Archives.Retrieved12 February2013.
  5. ^Courthope, William (1839).Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: With Additions to the Present Time and a New Set of Coats of Arms from Drawings by Harvey.J. G. & F. Rivington. p. 14.Retrieved19 September2017.
  6. ^Foster, Joseph(1888–1892)."Osborne, Francis Godolphin D'Arcy D'Arcy, Marquis of Carmarthen".Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886.Oxford: Parker and Co – viaWikisource.
  7. ^Burke, Sir Bernard (1866).A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire.Harrison. p. 156.Retrieved19 September2017.
  8. ^"The Duke of Leeds".The Times.29 July 1963. p. 19.
  9. ^"The Duke of Leeds – Former Minister to the Holy See".The Times.21 March 1964. p. 12.

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