Peter Osborne

Peter Osborne (1521 – 1592) was Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI

Educated at Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn, called to the bar and entered official life in July 1551 upon receiving the clerkship of the faculties for life, 1551–2 Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI, Office of Remembrancer to the Lord-Treasurer in the Exchequer 1553,

He was occupied in minting in 1560, MP for Horsham, Sussex, 1562–3; He was made an ecclesiastical commissioner as early as 1566, MP for Plympton, Devonshire, 1572; for Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 1584 and 1586; Westminster, 1589.

He married Anne, ("d." 1615) the daughter of Dr John Blythe.

References

*J. G. Elzinga, ‘Osborne, Peter (1521-1592)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20880, accessed 11 May 2005]
*W. A. J. A., Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 1894
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P32801 National Archives]