John had a number of illegitimate children by various mistresses, including nine sons – Richard, Oliver, John, Geoffrey, Henry, Osbert Gifford, Eudes, Bartholomew and probably Philip – and three daughters – Joan, Maud and probably Isabel.

In 1139 Osbert went to Rome to petition for Edward's canonisation with the support of King Stephen, but he lacked the full support of the English hierarchy and Stephen had quarrelled with the church, so Pope Innocent II postponed a decision, declaring that Osbert lacked sufficient testimonials of Edward's holiness.

The crime had taken place during Stephen's reign, but Stephen's death had prevented Osbert from being tried in 1154.

Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, Richard Barre, William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly already served as justices prior to Walter's term of office, it was Walter who used them extensively.

Fitz Osbert had become a champion of the poor of London.

Nevertheless, Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, decided that Fitz Osbert had to be stopped.

As Fitz Osbert emerged from the smoke and flames he was stabbed and wounded in the belly by the son of the man whom he had earlier killed, upon which Osbert was taken in to custody.

Bertram Marmaduke Osbert Savile Foljambe ( 1891 – 1955 ), married Joyce Edmunson and had issue.

Osmund, Osburh, Oslac ( Danish Axel ), Oswald, Oswiu, Oswin, Osbert, Oswudu, Osred, Oslaf, Offa ( from Osfrid ), Oesa ( i-mutated from a * Ós-i -), Oscar ( Anglo-Saxon form of Ásgeir ).

", Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster, Augustus John, George Orwell, Herbert Read ( chairman ), Osbert Sitwell and George Woodcock set up the Freedom Defence Committee to " uphold the essential liberty of individuals and organizations, and to defend those who are persecuted for exercising their rights to freedom of speech, writing and action.

* Alphonse Osbert ( 1857 – 1939 ), a French Symbolist painter

Bertram Marmaduke Osbert Savile Foljambe ( 1891-1955 ), sixth son of the first Earl.

* Obituary in Osbert Salvin ( Editor ), Ibis, Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Vol. V, 1875, page 522

Among Sclater's more important books were Exotic Ornithology ( 1866 – 69 ) and Nomenclator Avium ( 1873 ), both with Osbert Salvin ; Argentine Ornithology ( 1888 – 89 ), with W. H.

He illustrated many important bird books, including Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand ( 1873, 1888 ), William Vincent Legge's History of the Birds of Ceylon ( 1880 ), Daniel Giraud Elliot's Monograph of the Bucerotidae ( hornbills ) ( 1887 – 1892 ), Richard Bowdler Sharpe's Monograph of the Alcedinidae ( kingfishers ) ( 1868 – 1871 ), Henry Seebohm's Monograph of the Turdidae ( thrushes ) ( 1902 ), Osbert Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana ( 1879 – 1904 ), Edgar Leopold Layard's Birds of South Africa ( 1887 ) and Henry Eeles Dresser's History of the Birds of Europe ( 1871 – 1896 ), and a single illustration in The Journal of the Linnean Society.

From left: Edith Sitwell ( 1887-1964 ), Sir George Sitwell, Lady Ida, Sacheverell Sitwell ( 1897-1988 ), and Osbert Sitwell ( 1892-1969 ).

The Sitwells ( Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell ), from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, were three siblings, who formed an identifiable literary and artistic clique around themselves in London in the period roughly 1916 to 1930.

Osbert Lancaster's Drayneflete Revealed ( 1949, published in the US as There'll Always be a Drayneflete 1950 ), is an illustrated book on architectural style.

The penultimate and longest chapter, ' Lord Osmund's Lenten Party ' ( over 250 pages ), is a satirical account of a fancy-dress party held by three members of the ' Finnian Shaw ' family, who are clearly modelled on the Sitwell family, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell.

A short study of Jonathan Swift won the Royal Society of Literature award under the W. H. Heinemann bequest in 1966, it was followed by Exotics: Poems of the Mediterranean and Middle East ( 1970 ) and his last book, An Essay on Malta ( 1972 ), with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster.

Osbert Cecil Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton GCVO, PC, DL ( 21 February 1871 – 16 June 1930 ), styled The Honourable Osbert Molyneux until 1901, was a British courtier and Liberal politician.

In the twelfth century, a Latin Life of her was written by Osbert de Clare, who became prior of Westminster in 1136 ( and who also wrote a Life of King Edward the Confessor ).

In 1156, Theobald supported the efforts of Osbert de Bayeux, who was accused of poisoning William the Archbishop of York, to secure a trial for his alleged crimes in an ecclesiastical court rather than in the royal court.

Thurstan's nephew was Osbert de Bayeux, who became an archdeacon at York, and in 1154 was accused of the murder of William of York, one of Thurstan's successors at York.

Other nephews were Osbert, who was sheriff of Durham, and Robert, Richard, and William who held fiefs.

" " Unlike those who were caught by Flaubert's theory of the unique word and the only epithet ," wrote Osbert Burdett, " Pater sought the sentence, and the sentence in relation to the paragraph, and the paragraph as a movement in the chapter.

William Fitz Osbert or William with the long beard ( died 1196 ) was a citizen of London who took up the role of the advocate of the poor in a popular uprising in the spring of 1196.

Fitz Osbert was a striking figure who held demagogue-like charismatic power over his followers.

At the suggestion of John Piper, the production was designed by Sir Osbert Lancaster, who later designed the 1971 D ' Oyly Carte production of The Sorcerer.

The most plausible and common explanation traces back to the mysterious pink dots on certain keys of the band's main recording studio piano named " Osbert "; the dots that can be found at either end of the keys do not make any particular chord or scale pattern and the reason for them remains unknown to this day.

The elder Thomas ' father was a priest named Osbert ; his mother was named Muriel, but little else of them is known.

By 1172 it is recorded that Osbert de Bray derived over £ 4 from tolls levied on vessels passing beneath the bridge.

Osbert of Clare, the prior of Westminster Abbey, then started to campaign for Edward's canonization, aiming to increase the wealth and power of the Abbey.

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford ( 28 October 1886 – 28 November 1957 ) was an English archaeologist and a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaeological understanding of the landscape.

Godman is best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana ( 1879 – 1915 ) with Osbert Salvin.

It was created on 17 January 1956 for the Conservative politician and former Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, Osbert Peake.

Osbert Salvin FRS ( 25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898 ) was an English naturalist, best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana ( 1879 – 1915 ) with Frederick DuCane Godman.

* All At Sea: A Social Tragedy in Three Acts for First-Class Passengers Only ( 1927 ) with Osbert Sitwell

* The Bibliophile's Almanack for 1927 ( The Fleuron 1927 ) with Harold Child, Osbert Sitwell, W. J.

The species was named by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild for the distinguished ornithologist Osbert Salvin.

They were strays of every kind -- university students and journalists, Village hangers-on and barflies, taxi drivers and editors and unknown poets, as well as friends like Elinor Wylie and William Rose Benet, the Van Dorens and Nathan, Rebecca West and Hugh Walpole and Osbert Sitwell, Laurence Stallings, Lewis Browne, William Seabrook, Arthur Hopkins, the Woodwards.

The 120-page book, first published in the United States and then in Britain, was illustrated by Osbert Lancaster and became an instant best seller.

* 1892 – Osbert Sitwell, British author ( d. 1969 )

* May 4 – Osbert Sitwell, English writer ( b. 1892 )

* July 27 – Osbert Lancaster, British cartoonist ( b. 1908 )

* December 6 – Osbert Sitwell, English writer ( d. 1969 )

Osbert Sitwell, in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current views, " the typical businessman, with his mean and narrow outlook.

It was held partly by the Canons of Bayeux ; partly by William, son of Ansculf and partly by Osbert.

* Osbert de Clare, Vita Edburgae, MS. Laud Misc.

The villages and lands were given by Osbert De Arches to the Abbot of St Mary's in York.

A younger brother, Osbert, became a royal justice and died in 1206.