Frederick Osborn

Major General Frederick Henry Osborn (21 March 1889 – 5 January 1981) was an American philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist. He was a founder of several organizations and played a central part in reorienting eugenics in the years following World War II away from the race- and class-consciousness of earlier periods. The American Philosophical Society considers him to have been "the respectable face of eugenic research in the post-war period."(APS, 1983)

World War I and the founding of organizations

Osborn graduated from Princeton University in 1910 and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, for a postgraduate year. His family had made their fortune in the railroad business, and he went into the family business up until the outbreak of World War I, when he served in the American Red Cross in France as Commander of the Advance Zone for the last 11 months of the war. In 1928, he became a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History studying anthropology and population.

Frederick Osborn (sportsman)

Frederick "Freddie" Osborn (10 November 1889 – 11 October 1954) was an English cricketer and footballer.

Cricket

Osborn made two first-class appearances for Leicestershire. His first appearance came against Derbyshire in the 1911 County Championship at Aylestone Road, Leicester, while his second came against Lancashire in the 1913 County Championship at Old Trafford. Against Derbyshire, he made scores of 14 in Leicestershire's first-innings, during which he was dismissed by Arnold Warren, while in their second-innings he wasn't required to bat. Against Lancashire, Osborn was dismissed for a duck by Bill Huddleston in Leicestershire's first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for the same score by Ralph Whitehead.

Football

Osborn played as a forward for Leicester Fosse and Preston North End.

After being switched from inside forward to centre forward, Osborn was top scorer for Preston in 1913–14 with 26 goals, although the club was still relegated, and again the following season with 17 goals as they won promotion back to the First Division, before league football was interrupted by the First World War.