Modern English biography

Derbyshire 11 May 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 15 May. _Wesleyan Methodist Mag. July 1891 pp._ 553–5; _J. E. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London_ (1870) 227; _Methodist Recorder 14 May 1891 p._ 377 _portrait_. OSBORN, ROBERT DURIE (son of Henry Roche Osborn, lieut. col. 13 Bengal N.I., _d._ 1849). _b._ Agra 6 Aug. 1835; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1854, lieut. 1857; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8, and with the Bundelcund field force 1859–60; lieut. Bengal staff corps 1857, major 20 Dec. 1873, retired with hon. rank of lieut. col. 1 May 1879; captain 12 regiment of Bengal cavalry 1868–72; served through Afghan campaign of 1879; resided at 20 Winchester road, Hampstead 1879 to death; London correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman; author of Islam under the Arabs 1876; Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Lawn tennis, its players and how to play 1881, 2 ed.