Osman Ricardo

Osman Ricardo
Member of Parliament
for Worcester
In office
30 July 1847 – 12 July 1865
Preceded byJoseph Bailey
Denis Le Marchant
Succeeded byAlexander Clunes Sheriff
Richard Padmore
Personal details
Born25 May 1795
Died2 January 1881(1881-01-02) (aged 85)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal, Whig
RelationsSamson Ricardo (uncle)
Parent(s)David Ricardo
Priscilla Anne Wilkinson
ResidenceBromsberrow
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Osman Ricardo (25 May 1795 – 2 January 1881)[1] was a British Liberal and Whig politician.[2][3]

Early life

Ricardo was born on 25 May 1795 into the wealthy family of Portuguese origin.[4] He was a son of the political economist David Ricardo and Quaker, Priscilla Anne Wilkinson. Among his siblings were David Ricardo, MP for Stroud, and Mortimer Ricardo, who served as an officer in the Life Guards and was DL for Oxfordshire.[5]

The Ricardo family were Sephardic Jews of Portuguese origin who had recently relocated from the Dutch Republic.[6] Among his extended family were uncles Jacob Ricardo (father of John Lewis Ricardo), and Samson Ricardo, also an MP.[7] His maternal great-aunt, Rebecca Delvalle, was wife of the engraver Wilson Lowry, and mother of the engraver Joseph Wilson Lowry and the geologist, mineralogist, and author Delvalle Lowry.[8][9][6][10]

Career

Ricardo was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[11]

He was first elected Whig MP for Worcester at the 1847 general election,[12] and, becoming a Liberal in 1859, he held the seat until 1865, when he stood down.[13]

Personal life

In his 1830 book Rural Rides, William Cobbett reports being frightened by a life-sized cross atop the porter's lodge at "Osmond Ricardo's" estate at "Broomsborough" (i.e. Bromsberrow), Worcestershire, on Monday 24 September 1826.[11]

References

  1. ^ Rayment, Leigh (16 March 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "W"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. ^ "The General Election". Morning Post. 24 June 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 23 July 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "To Correspondents". Worcester Journal. 8 July 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 23 July 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Heertje, Arnold (2004). "The Dutch and Portuguese-Jewish background of David Ricardo". European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 11 (2): 281–294. doi:10.1080/0967256042000209288. S2CID 154424757.
  5. ^ "Ricardo, David (1772–1823), of Gatcombe Park, Minchinhampton, Glos. and 56 Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  6. ^ a b Heertje, Arnold (2004). "The Dutch and Portuguese-Jewish background of David Ricardo". European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 11 (2): 281–294. doi:10.1080/0967256042000209288. S2CID 154424757.
  7. ^ Sraffa, Piero; David Ricardo (1955), The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo: Volume 10, Biographical Miscellany, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 434, ISBN 0-521-06075-3
  8. ^ David Ricardo, D. Weatherall, Springer Netherlands, 2012, p. 6
  9. ^ Anglo-Jewish Portraits- A Biographical Catalogue of Engraved Anglo-Jewish and Colonial Portraits from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Queen Victoria, Alfred Rubens, Jewish Museum, London, 1935, p. 69
  10. ^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/23471. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23471. Retrieved 14 December 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ a b Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. p. 799. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  12. ^ "Ricardo, Osman (1795-1881)". www.histparl.ac.uk. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  13. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 282–283. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Worcester
1847–1865
With: Richard Padmore (1860–1865)
William Laslett (1852–1860)
Francis Rufford (1847–1852) 		Succeeded by