Sir Oswald Mosley of Ancoats, 2nd Baronet (27 March 1785 – 24 May 1871) was a British aristocrat, politician and writer. Family He was the son of Oswald Mosley (17 March 1761 – 27 July 1789), son of Sir John Mosley, 1st Baronet, of Ancoats (1732 - 29 September 1798), created 1st Baronet Mosley, of Ancoats, in the Baronetage of Great Britain, on 8 June 1781, and wife (married 7 April 1760) Elizabeth Bayley (died 15 October 1797), daughter of James Bayley of Withington (1705–1769) and Anne Peploe (1702–1769), daughter of Samuel Peploe. John Mosley, 1st Baronet was the son of Nicholas Mosley (died 1734) and Elizabeth Parker. He had four aunts: Penelope Mosley (died 30 August 1812), married on 22 December 1798 to Sir Henry Every, 9th Baronet, of Egginton (4 June 1777 – 28 December 1855), son of Sir Edward Every, 8th Baronet, of Egginton, and Mary Morley, and had four sons and one daughter; Mary Mosley, married Henry Feilden of Witton Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (January 1765 - 1815) and brother of Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet, of Feniscowles, and had one daughter and one son; Frances Mary Mosley (bapt. 24 March 1773 – 5 July 1844), married to George Smith, M.P. of Selsdon (30 April 1765 – 26 December 1836), brother of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, of Upton, and nephew of Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet, of East Stoke, and had one son and one daughter (great-great-grandparents of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon); and, Elizabeth Mosley (born circa 1770), married to The Reverend Streynsham Master (born 1766), Rector of Croston, Lancashire, and had one daughter and one son. Mosley's family were prosperous landowners in Staffordshire. The family seat was at Rolleston Hall, near Burton upon Trent and he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Mosley, of Ancoats, on 29 September 1798. His uncle Ashton Nicholas Mosley married his mother-in-law Mary Morley and had issue, who succeeded in the House. Career He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Portarlington 1806–1807, Winchelsea 1807–1812, Midhurst 1817-1818 and Staffordshire North 1832–1837. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1814. He wrote a number of local and natural history books, including History of the Castle, Priory and Town of Tutbury (1832), Gleanings in Horticulture (1851) and Natural History of Tutbury (1863). Marriage and children He married on 31 January 1804 Sophia Annie Every (died 8 June 1859), daughter of Sir Edward Every, 8th Baronet,