It was first published in England, and subsequently in the United States by Charles Scribner's Sons. Lord Ossington married Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, in 1827, but he left no children. He died on 7 March 1873, and his title became extinct. Lady Ossington died in 1889. His Ossington Hall estate passed to his nephew William Evelyn Denison, son of his brother Sir William Thomas Denison. Ossington Street in London was named in his honour.