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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 2

The Rev. Lord Sydney Godolphin Osborne, whose death has just been announced, was the third son of the first Lord Godolphin. He was born in 1803, graduated B.A. at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1830, and having been for some years Rector of Stoke Pogis, near Eton, was appointed Rector of Durweston, Dorsetshire, by Lord Portman, in 1841. He resigned the latter incumbency in September 1875. On the accession of his brother, Lord Godolphin, to the dukedom of Leeds, he obtained the rank of a duke’s son. Lord S. G. Osborne was formerly well known for his letters on social and philanthropic subjects, published under the signature of “ 5.G.0.,” in the Times. He lately continued these letters under the same signature, and one of them, entitled “At Last,” written with immediate reference to the Whitechapel murders, and pointing out the wonderful effect those horrors had in opening the eyes of the aristocracy to the sufferings and miseries of their poor fellow creatures in the East End nf London, obtained a world-wide notice. His Lordship wrote “ Gleanings in the West of Ireland" (which country he visited for benevolent purposes during the famine of 1847, and also in the year in which the cholera prevailed), published in 1850; ’’Lady Eva: Her Last Days, a Tale,” in 1851; “Scutari and its Hospitals,” with illustrations (ha visited the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean war, received the thanks of the Government for the services he rendered, and was honourably mentioned in the report of the Parliamentary Committee as having assisted to alleviate the sufferings, raise the spirits, and save the lives of the wounded and sick soldiers), in 1855 ; ” Hints to the Charitable,” and “Hints for the Amelioration of the Moral Condition of a Village,” in 1856 ; ” Letters on the Education of Young Children," in 1866; and many pamphlets, urging on the public the improvement oi the dwellings of the laboring classes.