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Alick Osborne was surgeon
superintendent on several convicts ships between the years 1825 - 1843
including the
Lonach 1825
Speke 1826
Sophia 1829
Sarah 1829
Planter 1832
Fairlie 1834 Marquis of Huntley 1835
and
Elphinstone 1838
Alick Osborne's daughter
Jane Osborne married Brisbane Water Magistrate
Alfred Holden at Illawarra in 1838.
His son Alick died in October 1842 age
21, and wife
Anne died 15 October 1853 age 61 years.
Alick
Osborne died in Omagh Irleand on 12th March 1856. The Empire
carried his obituary:
He was the son of Archibald Osborne, Esq., of Dirnaseer, in the county
of Tyrone. At an early age, he entered the Navy, in which service he
remained as surgeon upwards of forty years. He then emigrated to New
South Wales and settled in the district of Illawarra where two of his
brothers, the late Dr. John Osborne, and the present member for East
Camden (Henry) also resided.
At the general election in 1851 Dr. Osborne, was elected member of the
Legislative Council for the united counties of St. Vincent and Murray,
after a sharp contest in which he was opposed by Charles Campbell Esq.,
In January 1855 he resigned his seat and proceeded to Europe.
In the council. Dr. Osborne was regular in his attendance and took an
active interest in the discharge of his duties. His political views,
which were frequently expressed in the debates, always briefly and
pithily, were of a strong conservative cast. In maintaining his own
opinions with out-spoken manliness, however, he never manifested
disrespect towards others, meeting his opponents with fairness while
preserving his fidelity to his friends. Dr. Osborne was sixty three
years of age at his death.
Read about the journey of the Planter in 1832 -
Notes on the Present State and Prospects of Society in the colony of NSW
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