John Francis Godolphin Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds was a British peer.
Background
He was the son of Sir George Godolphin Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds and Lady Katherine Frances Lambton. He inherited half a million pounds after tax from his father at the age of twenty-six in 1927, but his father also left gambling debts.
Career
He succeeded to the title of 11th Duke of Leeds and its subsidiary titles on 10 May 1927. Hornby Castle estate was placed on the market in 1930 and the Duke spent the rest of his life as a tax exile on the French Riviera, and on the island of Jersey at his mansion Melbourne House. Hornby Castle, bar one gutted wing, was demolished in 1931.
In 1965 he sold a Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington at auction for 140,000 pounds.
lieutenant was subsequently stolen from the National Gallery in a famous theft. The Duke married three times:
Irma Amelia de Malkhozouny, on 27 March 1933.
They divorced in 1948. Audrey Young, on 21 December 1948.
They divorced in 1955.
They had one daughter, Lady Camilla Dorothy Godolphin Osborne (b 14 August 1950): Camilla married 1) Julian Brownlow Harris and 2) the gossip columnist Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (m 1977 – div 2002)
Caroline Fleur Vatcher (1931-2005), daughter of Colonel Henry Monckton Vatcher of Jersey, on 22 February 1955.