John Osborne "A Better Class of Person", Osborne describes feeling an immediate and intense attraction towards his first wife. The pair were both members of an acting troupe in Bridgwater. Though Alison Porter in "Look Back in Anger" was based on Pamela, Osborne describes Lane's parents as "much coarser" and how at one point they hired a private detective to follow him after a fellow actor was seen 'fumbling' with his knee in a teashop. Though he admits that it was true at least that the actor in question did have a homosexual crush on him. Lane and Osborne married in secret
John Osborne (barrister) and ungratefully". His prestige had sunk so low that his office was offered to Sir John Meade, who had previously been regarded as ineligible for any Crown appointment on the ground that his wife was a Roman Catholic. Osborne was dismissed from office in November 1692 and died suddenly soon afterwards. He had married a daughter of his uncle William Draper: he is not known to have had any children. John Osborne (barrister) John Osborne (c.1630-1692) was an English barrister and Law Officer who spent much of his life in Ireland. He was the only surviving son of the celebrated