The son of Thomas Osborne in Nottingham, Cyril Osborne was educated at University College, Nottingham, and served with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in World War I. He married, in 1935, Joyce Lawrence née Feibusch from Wolverhampton, and they had two sons and two daughters.
He is no relation of George Osborne. One of them, Hazel, Baroness Byford was an Opposition Spokesman in the House of Lords. In the House of Commons, he preceded Enoch Powell in arguing against immigration from the new commonwealth countries.
Although the Bill failed at its first hurdle, the fact that it received the support of the Conservative Party leadership reflected the party"s gradually hardening position on immigration into Britain from the "New Commonwealth".
From 1964 to 1967, he was Honorary Treasurer of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (British Group), and for a longer period was Chairman of the Anglo-Soviet Parliamentary Group. Sir Cyril Osborne was a Stockbroker and company director
Although Osborne"s views on immigration were generally regarded as somewhat extreme by the Conservative Party leadership, in March 1965 the party"s MPs supported his Bill that sought to introduce "periodic and precise limits on immigration".
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He was elected on his first attempt, at the 1945 general election, and later became an early Member of Parliament member of the Conservative Monday Club. He was a past Master of the Framework, a Member of the Court of Assistants, and of the Bakers" Livery Company.
He was also a member of the Pilgrims Society, and the English-Speaking Union.
