Peter Osborne

Peter Osborne may refer to:

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Peter Osborne (writer and academic)

Peter Osborne (born 1958) is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University, London. He is also an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy.

Education

Osborne graduated from the University of Bristol in 1979, with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in philosophy and economics, went on to obtain an MA (Master of Arts) in Philosophy at the University of Sussex in 1980, and stayed on to earn a DPhil (Doctorate of Philosophy) in 1988 Osborne, along with colleague Howard Caygil, was a student of Gillian Rose.

Osborne returned to the University of Bristol in 1988 to become a lecturer in the philosophy department. Then, in 1989, he lectured in the undergraduate philosophy department at Middlesex University, remaining there until he became, first, a senior lecturer (in 1992), then a reader (academic rank) in the graduate programme, before becoming a professor in 1997.

Osborne has subsequently served as a supervisor for PhD candidates, including Mark Neocleous (now Professor of the Critique of Political Economy Politics and History, Brunel University, London), Bob Cannon (now Senior Lecturer in Sociology and the BA Sociology Programme Leader, University of East London), Stewart Martin (now Reader in Philosophy and Fine Art, Middlesex University), Andrew McGettigan (now a freelance writer/researcher on philosophy, the arts and education), Alastair Morgan (now Lecturer in Mental Health and Social Care, University of Nottingham), Nina Power (now Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Roehampton University), Katie Lloyd Thomas (now Lecturer in Architecture, Newcastle University).

Peter Osborne (Keeper of the Privy Purse)

Peter Osborne (1521–1592) was Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI

He was born the second son of Richard Osborne of Tyld Hall, Lockingdon, Essex and educated at King's College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn, called to the bar and entered official life in July 1551 upon receiving the clerkship of the faculties for life.

In 1551–2 he was Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI and in 1552 held the office of Remembrancer to the Lord-Treasurer in the Exchequer.

He was occupied in minting in 1560, MP for Tregony in 1559 and for Horsham, Sussex in 1562–3. He was made an ecclesiastical commissioner as early as 1566. He was MP for Guildford in 1571, Plympton, Devon in 1572, Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1584 and 1586 and Westminster in 1589.

He married Anne, (d. 1615) the daughter of Dr John Blythe. His grandson, Sir Peter Osborne, was Royal Governor of Guernsey during the Civil War.

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