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Loan 96 RLF 1/1374
Mr William Osburn (Junior)

Mr William Osburn

Applications

9 (9 successful)

Date period

31 Mar 1855-17 Apr 1869

Awards

  • 31 Mar 1855 (£40)
  • 3 May 1856 (£40)
  • 26 Jun 1857 (£40)
  • 2 Feb 1863 (£30)
  • 28 May 1864 (£30)
  • 30 May 1865 (£20)
  • 1 Dec 1866 (£20)
  • 2 Mar 1868 (£20)
  • 10 Apr 1869 (£10)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Wine Merchant
  • Secretary of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

Author's works published

History : Egyptian; also Non-Fiction, Grammars, Religious

Also named in file

 - 

Timeline

1855

Application Form, William Osburn – endorsed by Walter Farquhar Hook and Robert Hall

31 Mar 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/1
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Apr 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/2
 

Robert Hall to Octavian Blewitt

4 Apr 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/3
 

Walter Farquhar Hook to Octavian Blewitt

5 Apr 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/4
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

13 Apr 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/5
1856

Application Form, William Osburn – endorsed by T W George and Walter Farquhar Hook

3 May 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/6
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

3 May 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/7
 

Robert Hall to Octavian Blewitt

5 May 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/8
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

29 May 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/9
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

3 Jun 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/10
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

10 Jun 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/11
 

Walter Farquhar Hook to Octavian Blewitt

12 Jun 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/12
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 Jun 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/13
1857

Application Form, William Osburn – endorsed by Walter Farquhar Hook and Fred Baines

26 Jun 1857
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/14
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

26 Jun 1857
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/15
 

Walter Farquhar Hook to Octavian Blewitt

8 Jun 1857
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/16
 

Fred Baines to Octavian Blewitt

26 Jun 1857
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/17
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

10 Jul 1857
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/18
1863

Application Form, William Osburn

2 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/19
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

7 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/20
 

Edward Baines to the Committee of the Literary Fund

31 Jan 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/21
 

George S Beecroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/22
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

2 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/23
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

13 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/24
 

William Hale Hale to Octavian Blewitt

19 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/25
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

21 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/26
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

27 Feb 1863
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/27
1864

Application Form, William Osburn

28 May 1864
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/28
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

15 Apr 1864
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/29
 

Thomas Scattergood to Octavian Blewitt

26 May 1864
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/30
 

Thomas Scattergood to the Committee of the Literary Fund – medical certificate

26 May 1864
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/31
 

Fred Baines to Octavian Blewitt

27 May 1864
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/32
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

10 Jun 1864
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/33
1865

Application Form, William Osburn

30 May 1865
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/34
 

William Osburn to Octavian Blewitt

23 May 1865
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/35
 

George S Beecroft to Octavian Blewitt

1 Jun 1865
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/36
 

Edward Baines to Octavian Blewitt

2 Jun 1865
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/37
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

17 Jun 1865
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/38
1866

Application Form, William Osburn

1 Dec 1866
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/39
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Dec 1866
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/40
 

Edward Baines to Octavian Blewitt

30 Nov 1866
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/41
 

Andrew Fairburn to Octavian Blewitt

2 Dec 1866
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/42
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

14 Dec 1866
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/43
1867

Press report from the Leeds Mercury on Professor Piazzi Smyth and his defence of the work of William Osburn from attacks by Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen

26 Nov 1867
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/44
1868

Application Form, William Osburn

2 Mar 1868
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/45
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

7 Mar 1868
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/46
 

Fred Baines to Octavian Blewitt

2 Mar 1868
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/47
 

Thomas Scattergood to Octavian Blewitt

5 Mar 1868
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/48
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 Mar 1868
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/49
1869

Application Form, William Osburn

10 Apr 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/50
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

10 Apr 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/51
 

Andrew Fairburn to Octavian Blewitt

12 Apr 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/52
 

Thomas Scattergood to Octavian Blewitt

12 Apr 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/53
 

William Osburn to the Committee of the Literary Fund

17 Apr 1869
Loan 96 RLF 1/1374/54
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