Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats

Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats (27 March 1785 – 24 May 1871) was a British politician and writer.

Family

He was the son of Oswald Mosley (17 March 1761 - 27 July 1789), son of Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet, of Ancoats (1732 - 29 September 1798), created 1st Baronet Mosley, of Ancoats, in the Baronetage of Great Britain, on 8 June 1781, and wife (married 7 April 1760) Elizabeth Bayley (died 15 October 1797), daughter of James Bayley of Withington, Herefordshire (1705–1769) and Anne Peploe (1702–1769), daughter of Samuel Peploe. His father was the son of Nicholas Mosley (born 1734) and Elizabeth Parker.

He had four sisters: Penelope Mosley (died 30 August 1812), married on 22 December 1798 to Sir Henry Every, 9th Baronet, of Egginton (4 June 1777 - 28 December 1855), son of Sir Edward Every, 8th Baronet, of Egginton, and Mary Morley, and had four sons and one daughter; Mary Mosley, married Henry Feilden of Witton Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (January 1765 - 1815) and brother of Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet, of Feniscowles, and had one daughter and one son; Frances Mary Mosley (circa 1770 - circa 1844), married to George Smith of Selsdon (30 April 1765 - 26 December 1836), brother of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, of Upton, and nephew of Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet, of East Stoke, and had one son and one daughter (great-great-grandparents of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon); and Elizabeth Mosley (born circa 1770), married to The Reverend...
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