Dukes of Leeds
Peregrine Hyde Osborne
3rd Duke of Leeds, Acceded:1729Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds was born on 11 November 1691. He was the son of Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds and Bridget Hyde.
He married three times:
- Lady Elizabeth Harley, youngest daughter of Robert, Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, and Beatrice van Hemmema, on 16 December 1712.
- Anne Seymour, daughter of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Percy, on 17 September 1719. She died on 27 November 1722
- Juliana Hele(1705-1794), daughter and coheiress of Roger Hele of Holywell Devon, on 9 April 1725.
He had one child to Lady Elizabeth, Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds. Lady Elizabeth died in childbirth, on November 2Oth, 1713, aged 28, and was buried at Kiveton.
Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds died on 9th May, 1731 and was succeeded by his only surviving child Thomas.
Will of Peregrine Hyde, 3rd Duke of Leeds 18 Sept. 1728
To be buried at Harthill Yorkshire
To servants, 1 yr's wages; and to old servants Mary Carter and Wm. Mills, £50 each as well.
To Wm. Wentworth of Woolley, esq., best horse Careless. To his bro. Matthew Wentworth, best gun and £50.
To Wm. Levinz of Grove (Notts.), esq., his s. Wm. Levinz, Jas. Trimmer, jun., and Geo. Little John, £100 each.
All residue of personal estate (except jewels) to Edward, Earl of Oxford, and Wm. Levinz, sen., in trust for only s. Thos., Lord Danby, when 21 or married; in default to any other children, in default to wife Juliana.
All jewels to wife for life, then to Thos.
All real estate to Thos., when 21.
Oxford and Levinz, executors and guardians.
Source:Nottinghamshire Archives: Portland of Welbeck Estate Papers. Reference: DD/4P/43/4
The most illustrious Prince
Peregrine-Hyde Osborne
Duke of Leeds
Marques of Carmarthen
Earl of Danby
Viscount Latimer of Dunblane
Baron of Kiveton and Baronet
depart this life May 9, 1731
in the 39th year of his age
and was interred
the 21st day of the same month
Thomas, fourth Duke of Leeds was, in 1748, appointed one of the Lords of the Bedchamber, and, in the same year, constituted Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre of all his Majesty's forests, chases, etc., south of the Trent. In 1749, he was elected a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
He married Lady Mary, the younger of the two daughters of Francis, Earl of Godolphin, by whom he had two sons and a daughter who all died young, and another son, Francis-Godolphin, who, in 1789, succeeded as fifth Duke of Leeds.
Will of Peregrine Hyde Osborne
