(Updated, April 2014) A miniature of Commander Lord Francis Granville Godolphin Osborne, bust-length, facing to viewer's left , wearing naval uniform including cap and aide-de-camp braid. It is in a bronzed metal display frame in turn enclosed, on a velvet backing, in a wooden one which also contains a crested brass button with a lion and serpent design below. The miniature is executed in watercolour on ivory and on the back of the wooden frame there is a support stand and two separate typed labels. One identifies the sitter as shown in about 1916 when Flag Commander to the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth; the other identifies the button as a 'livery' example bearing the Godolphin Osborne crest. The sitter was a younger son of George Godolphin Osborne, who from 1872 to his death in 1895 was 9th Duke of Leeds: the eldest son, of five, also called George (b.1862), then succeeded as 10th duke. Francis was born at Hornby Castle, Swaledale, on 11 March 1864, enrolled for the Navy in July 1877 when he was 13, and in 1896 married Ruth Brown-Grieve (1869-1956, daughter of a vice-admiral). His final naval rank was that of captain (though possibly only in retirement) and he and his wife later lived near Berwick on Tweed where he was a JP for Northumberland. He died on 17 October 1924. There were no children of his marriage and this item only came into the Museum in 1988, by a route not yet confirmed on the database. The button design is presumably the domestic livery of the Godolphin Osborne family, the sitter's great-grandfather Francis Osborne having been created 1st Baron Godolphin in 1832. The latter's son and the sitter's grandfather, George Godolphin Osborne, the 2nd baron, also later became 8th Duke of Leeds in 1859, on the death of his cousin: the two titles then remained combined until both became extinct on the death of the 12th duke in 1964.