{{Short description|British Liberal politician}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Ralph Bernal Osborne | honorific_suffix = | image = Ralph Bernal Osborne, Vanity Fair, 1870-05-28.jpg | caption = Caricature by [[Alfred Thompson (artist)|ATn]] published in ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' in 1870 | office = [[First Secretary of the Admiralty]] | term_start = 1853 | term_end = 1858 | predecessor = [[Augustus Stafford]] | successor = [[Henry Lowry-Corry (1803–1873)|Henry Lowry-Corry]] | birth_name = Ralph Bernal | birth_date = {{birth date|1808|03|26|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[London]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|1882|01|04|1808|03|26|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Bestwood Lodge]], [[St Albans, Nottinghamshire]], England | parents = [[Ralph Bernal]]<br>Ann White | spouse = {{marriage|[[Catherine Isabella Osborne]]<br>|20 August 1844|1880|reason=died}} | children = 2, including [[Edith Blake|Edith]] | relations = [[Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans]] (grandson) }} '''Ralph Bernal Osborne''' ({{né}} '''Bernal'''; 26 March 1808 – 4 January 1882) was a British [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and army officer who served as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) under multiple constituencies from 1841 to 1874. The son of [[Whig Party (UK)|Whig]] politician [[Ralph Bernal]], he is sometimes referred to as '''The Younger Bernal''' to avoid confusion with his father.
==Early life== Ralph Bernal was born on 26 March 1808 in [[London]]. He was the eldest son of two children born to future Whig MP [[Ralph Bernal]] (1783/1784–1854) and his first wife Ann Elizabeth Bernal ({{née}} White; 1787–1823). From his father's side, Bernal was of [[Sephardic Jews|Sephardic Jewish]] Iberian descent, with his ancestors living in several cities in [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] before fleeing following the [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|Jewish expulsion]] from the two countries in 1492, and thus fled to [[Amsterdam]] in [[Netherlands]] before settling in London.
His paternal grandparents were Jacob Israel Bernal Jr., a merchant, and Leah da Silva.<ref>{{cite web|author=Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/bernal-ralph-1783-1854|title=BERNAL, Ralph (1783-1854), of 11 Park Crescent, Mdx.|publisher=History of Parliament Online|access-date=30 March 2016}}</ref>
==Career== Bernal entered the [[British Army|military]] in 1831, as an [[Ensign (rank)#United Kingdom|Ensign]] of the [[71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot]]. He later served with the 7th ([[Royal Fusiliers]]) Regiment of Foot, and finally left the army in 1844 with the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]].
He had already been elected to [[British House of Commons|Parliament]] in 1841 as a member for [[Chipping Wycombe]], in the Liberal interest, and later sat for [[Middlesex]] (1847–1857), [[Dover]] (1857–1859), [[Liskeard]] (1859–1865), [[Nottingham]] (1866–1868), and [[Waterford]] City (1870–1874).
In the ''Railway Times'' of 21 June 1845, he is the first person listed in the provisional committee for the Leicester, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton-upon-Trent and Stafford Junction Railway: Ralph R. Bernal Osborne, MP for Wycombe, address: Albemarle Street. The railway was never built.
Beside being a Parliamentarian, he was also [[Secretary of the Admiralty]].
When he died, his house at Newtown Anner, [[Clonmel]], [[County Tipperary]], [[Munster]], Ireland, was surrounded by more than {{convert|13000|acre|km2}} of land.
==Personal life== On 20 August 1844 he married [[Catherine Isabella Osborne]] (1819–1880), from an [[Anglo-Irish]] [[The Ascendancy|landed family]], the daughter of [[Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet]], and Catherine Rebecca Smith. On the same day of their wedding, he took her name and his name was legally changed by royal licence, becoming '''Ralph Bernal Osborne'''.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-2234 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2234 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004}}</ref> Together, they were the parents of two daughters:
* [[Edith Blake|Edith Bernal Osborne]] (1846–1926), who married, as his second wife, Sir [[Henry Arthur Blake]], the son of Peter Blake of [[Daly Castle|Corbally Castle]], in 1874.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb12-ms.add.8423 |title=Edith Blake: Journal of journey in China, Korea and Japan - Archives Hub}}</ref><ref>Irish Women Artists: From the eighteenth century to the present day, Wanda Ryan, Jenni Rogers, National Gallery of Ireland, 1987, p. 150.</ref> * Grace Bernal Osborne (1848–1926), who married, as his second wife, [[William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans]], in 1874.<ref>Derek Beales, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2234 'Osborne, Ralph Bernal (1808?–1882)'], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2007, accessed 28 March 2009.</ref>
His wife died on 21 June 1880 at [[Newtown Anner House]] in [[County Tipperary]]. Osborne died on 4 January 1882.
===Descendants=== Through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather of three, Olive Blake (who married [[John Bernard Arbuthnot]]), Lt. Arthur Blake, and Maurice Bernal Blake.
Through his younger daughter, he was a grandfather of [[Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans]], Lady Moyra de Vere Beauclerk (wife of [[Lord Richard Cavendish (1871–1946)|Lord Richard Cavendish]], a grandson of the [[William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire|7th Duke of Devonshire]]),<ref>{{cite web|last=Walker|first=Dave|title=Costume Ball 4: Ladies only|url=http://rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/costume-ball-4-ladies-only/|publisher=Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea}}</ref> Lady Katherine de Vere Beauclerk (wife of Henry Somerset, a grandson of the [[Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort|8th Duke of Beaufort]], and secondly, [[William Lambton (British Army officer)|Maj.-Gen. Sir William Lambton]], a son of the [[George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham|2nd Earl of Durham]]), Lady Alexandra de Vere Beauclerk, and Lord William Huddlestone de Vere Beauclerk, who both died unmarried.
==Sources== * Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 2, p. 3031.
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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-ralph-bernal | Ralph Bernal Osborne }}
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