jurisdiction it does not possess, and requiring them to justify it) against those corporations in Munster which challenged the jurisdiction of the central Court of Admiralty; this was apparently at the request of Dr Alan Cooke, the Leinster Admiralty judge. In 1639, the quo warranto campaign was extended into an attack on all local landowners who claimed the right to hold local Admiralty courts. The campaign was not entirely successful: the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) ruled that Richard Talbot of Malahide Castle (ancestor of Baron Talbot de Malahide) had the right to hold an admiralty court for the port of Malahide in north Dublin. The campaign seems to have petered out after Osbaldeston's death. Death Probably Osbaldeston's most lasting memorial was the house he built adjacent to the King's Inns. After his death it was regranted to his son William. It was later acquired by Sir Richard Reynell, 1st Baronet. He died in Dublin in June 1640 and was buried in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin. Dr Alan Cooke, the Leinster Admiralty judge, wrote to London with the terse message that "the old Attorney (General) is dead" and asked for a replacement to be sent quickly, to continue the quo warranto campaign. Osbaldeston was replaced by Sir Thomas Tempest, but Strafford's impeachment, followed by the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, soon made the effective conduct of government business impossible and the office of Attorney General effectively lapsed until 1649. Family He married firstly Eleanor Anne Westropp, daughter of William Westropp of Brunton, Yorkshire and Elizabeth Witham, who died in 1638, and secondly, Mary Nettleton, daughter of Thomas Nettleton of Nettleton Hall, Thornhill, West Yorkshire, who outlived him and died about 1652. By his first marriage he had at least five children, but of these only William and Frances are known to have reached adult life; Lambert, the eldest son, died young. William (1631-1707) was the grandfather of Richard Osbaldeston, Bishop of London. He was a member of the Irish Bar and was admitted to the King's Inns in 1654. While the Osbaldestons did not have any permanent ties with Ireland, the family of Richard's first wife did, becoming prominent landowners in County Clare and County Limerick. Mountiford Westropp, High Sheriff of Clare in 1698, was her nephew. References Attorneys-General for Ireland 1640 deaths People from Hunmanby Year of birth uncertain Members of Gray's Inn