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Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q

VOLUME II. (continued 32)

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O’LOGHLEN, Sir Colman Michael, 2 baronet (eld. son of sir Michael O’Loghlen, 1 baronet 1789–1842). b. Dublin 20 Sept. 1819; B.A. univ. of Dublin 1840; admitted King’s inns 1838; called to Irish bar 1840, went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; chairman of Carlow quarter sessions 1856–9; chairman of Mayo quarter sessions 1859–61; M.P. Clare 1863 to death; third sergeant-at-law 1865, second sergeant 1866; judge advocate general 16 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1870; P.C. 12 Dec. 1868; introduced and carried the bill enabling Roman Catholics to hold the lord chancellorship of Ireland. d. suddenly on board the mail-boat while crossing from Holyhead to Kingstown 22 July 1877. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 301–6.

OLPHERT, Wybrants (son of rev. John Olphert, d. 1851). b. 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; always resided on his estates in Ireland, where he had a large number of small tenants; in 1884 after formation of the Land league had to evict 32 of his tenants; refusing to make large reductions in his rents 1887 Father M’Fadden organised the ‘Plan of campaign’ and the evictions were resisted by cutting and barricading the roads, loopholding the houses, and using pitchforks, stones and boiling water against the bailiffs, the tenants eventually paid up and were reinstated 1892. found dead in his arm chair, Ballyconnell house, co. Donegal 21 Sept. 1892.

O’MAHONY, John Francis. b. Kilbeheney, co. Limerick 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; took part in Smith O’Brien’s attempted insurrection 1848, fled to France, lived in Paris 1849–54, and in New York 1854 to death; one of the founders of the Emmet movement association about 1854; for a short time in a lunatic asylum; col. of 69th regt. in U.S. of America; took a prominent part in the Fenian movement from 1858; was head centre of the Fenian brotherhood several years; published Foras feasa ar Eirinn, The history of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D., translated from the original Gaelic and copiously annotated, New York 1857. d. New York 7 Feb. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin in Feb. Appleton’s American biography iv 579–80 (1888).

O’MALLEY, Peter Frederic (son of Charles O’Malley of the Lodge, co. Mayo). b. 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 2 May 1834; went Oxford circuit; migrated to Middle Temple 1839, bencher 1850 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; leader of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Norwich April 1859 to death; contested Finsbury as a Conservative 16 Nov. 1868; author of Religious liberty and the Indian proclamation 1859; The articles, liturgy, and subscription 1865; To the electors of the borough of Finsbury, two addresses 1868. d. 7 Lowndes st. Belgrave sq. London 10 Dec. 1874. Irish Law Times viii 649 (1874); Law Times lviii 124 (1874).

O’MALLEY, Sir Samuel, 1 Baronet (son of Owen O’Malley of Borrishowle, co. Mayo). b. 26 Dec. 1779; created baronet 2 July 1804. d. Kilboyne house, Castlebar, Mayo 18 Aug. 1864. G.M. xvii 529 (1864).

O’MALLEY, Thadeus Joseph. b. Garryowen, near Limerick 1796; a Roman Catholic minister, Philadelphia, U.S. of America, but was suspended by bishop England 1825; assistant priest to the cathedral in Marlborough st. Dublin under archbishop Daniel Murray 1827; advocated a poor law for Ireland and a system of national education; rector of R.C. university of Malta, but dismissed by the government; started a newspaper in Dublin entitled The social economist and another entitled The Federalist, No. 1 Sept. 24, 1870, which ran to No. 31 April 22, 1871; tried to unite the Old Ireland and Young Ireland parties; advocated home rule from 1870; author of A sketch of the state of popular education in Holland, Prussia, Belgium and France, 2 ed. 1840; Home rule on the basis of federalism 1873. d. 1 Henrietta st. Dublin 2 Jany. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemet. The works of the right rev. J. England, bishop of Charleston v 187–202 (1849).

O’MEARA, Kathleen (dau. of Dennis O’Meara of Tipperary). b. Dublin 1839; resided in Paris most of her life, where she was correspondent of The Tablet newspaper many years; author of the following works under pseudonym of Grace Ramsay, A woman’s trials, 3 vols. 1867; Iza’s story, 3 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1877; The bells of the sanctuary, Agnes 1871; The bells of the sanctuary, A daughter of St. Dominick 1873; A salon in the last days of the Empire 1873; Thomas Grant, first bishop of Southwark 1874, 2 ed. 1886; The battle of Connemara 1878, 2 ed. 1878; Are you my wife, 3 vols. 1878; translated Henri Perreyve and his counsels to the sick 1881; author under own name of The Bells of the sanctuary, Mary Benedicta, etc. 1879; The blind apostle 1890; Frederic Ozanam, his life and works 1876, 2 ed. 1878; Madame Mohl, her salon and her friends 1885, 2 ed. 1886; Narka, 2 vols. 1888; The old house in Picardy 1887; One of God’s heroines, Mother Mary Teresa Kelly 1878; Queen by right divine and other tales 1885; The ven. Jean Baptiste Viauney 1891. d. at residence of Father Faber, Paris 10 Nov. 1888. Irish Monthly Oct. 1889 pp. 527–36; Tablet 17 Nov. 1888 p. 789.

OMMANNEY, Henry Manaton. b. 1775; entered navy June 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806; retired R.A. 28 June 1838, placed on the active list 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. d. 11 West Emma place, Stonehouse 22 March 1857.

OMMANNEY, Sir John Acworth (eld. son of rear admiral Cornthwaite Ommanney, d. 1801). b. 1773; entered navy 1786; captain 16 Oct. 1800; flag captain to sir Erasmus Gower on the Newfoundland station 1804–6; commanded the Albion 1825–30; served at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827, for which created C.B. 1828, and knight of the orders of St. Louis, St. Vladimir and the Redeemer of Greece; R.A. 22 July 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 May 1835; commanded the Lisbon station 1837–40, and the Mediterranean station 1840–1; K.C.B. 20 July 1838; V.A. 23 Nov. 1841, admiral 4 May 1849; commander-in-chief at Devonport 17 April 1851 to 1 May 1854. d. Warblington house, Havant 8 July 1855.

O’NEILL, John Bruce Richard O’Neill, 3 Viscount (younger son of 1 viscount O’Neill 1740–98). b. Shane’s castle, co. Antrim 30 Dec. 1780; ensign Coldstream guards 10 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 21 April 1808 to 29 March 1810; lieut. col. 19 dragoons 29 March 1810 to 11 July 1816; captain Coldstream guards 11 July 1816 to 27 May 1825; M.G. 27 May 1825; general 20 June 1854; M.P. co. Antrim 1802–41; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 25 March 1841; constable of Dublin castle May 1811 to death; vice-admiral of the coast of Ulster; a representative peer of Ireland Feb. 1842 to death. d. Shane’s Castle 12 Feb. 1855.

O’NEILL, William O’Neill, 1 Baron (eld. son of rev. Edward Chichester, R. of Kilmore, Armagh, d. June 1840). b. Culdaff house, co. Donegal 3 March 1813; educ. Foyle college, Londonderry, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1836; C. of Kilmore 1837; prebendary of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1848–59; succeeded to the O’Neill estates 1855, when he took name of O’Neill in lieu of that of Chichester; acted frequently as organist in the Dublin cathedrals; composer of church music, glees, and songs; composed the poetry and music of an ode when prince Arthur visited Shane’s Castle 1869; created baron O’Neill of Shane’s Castle in the county of Antrim 18 April 1868; a great supporter of the disestablished church; a member of the Victoria institute 1875; author of Friendly suggestions on Christian consistency, Exeter 1847; The christian sabbath 1859; Unchanging love, or the final perseverance of all believers in Christ Jesus 1860; Absolution and the prayer book 1871; Essays and addresses on the truths of the christian religion 1886; composer of Let others quaff the racy wine, a glee 1881. d. Shane’s Castle 17 April 1883. The O’Neill scholarship founded in the divinity school, Trin. coll. Dublin in his memory. Sermon by the rev. lord O’Neill (1885), memoir pp. ix–xlviii portrait.

O’NEILL, Henry. b. Dundalk 1800; Irish archæologist; author of A guide to pictorial art 1846; The most interesting of the ancient crosses of ancient Ireland, drawn to scale and lithographed by H. O’Neill 1857; The fine arts and civilization of ancient Ireland, illustrated with chromo and other lithographs 1863; Ireland for the Irish 1868. d. 109 Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 21 Dec. 1880.

O’NEILL, Henry Arthur. Ensign 41 foot 22 Nov. 1821; captain 12 foot 8 March 1827, major 28 Aug. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842, when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Nov. 1870. d. St. Ann’s Donnybrook, co. Dublin 23 Nov. 1874.

O’NEIL, Henry Nelson. b. St. Petersburg 7 Jany. 1817; came to England 1823; studied at the R.A. from 1836; historical painter; exhibited 94 pictures at R.A., 34 at B.I., and 14 at Suffolk st. 1838–79; A.R.A. 1860; with other persons supplied illustrations to L’Allegro and Il penseroso 1848; author of Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy 1866; Two thousand years hence 1868; Modern art in England and France 1869; Satirical dialogues 1870; The age of stucco, a satire in three cantos 1871. d. 7 Victoria road, Kensington, London 13 March 1880. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 343 (1862); Walford’s Representative men (1868) portrait; I.L.N. xxxvi 180, 181 (1860) portrait, lxxv 308 (1880) portrait.

O’NEILL OR O’NIELL, John (son of a shoemaker). b. Waterford 8 Jany 1777; a shoemaker at Garrick-on-Suir 1800, afterwards in London from 1812; a strong advocate of temperance; author of The clothier’s looking-glass, a poem 1799; Irish melodies; The sorrows of memory, a poem; Alva, a drama 1821; The Drunkard 1840, a poem, new edition with George Cruikshank’s etchings of the effects of the Bottle 1842; The triumph of temperance, or the destruction of the British upas tree 1852, a poem; Handerahan the Irish fairy-man and legends of Carrick 1854; Hugh O’Neill the prince of Ulster, a poem 1859; Mary of Avonmore, or the foundling of the beach, a novel. d. White horse yard, Drury lane, London 3 Feb. 1858. J. O’Neill’s Blessings of Temperance (1851), memoir pp. i–vi, portrait; W. E. Winks’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 316–9; D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland, part iii, p. 195 (1893); S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 338–9.

O’NEILL, John. b. about 1837; employed in the war office; retired on a pension of £350 in 1879; accountant general in Cyprus, where he had to reduce eleven different currencies to a common denomination; made a special study of Japanese, and compiled a grammar which was adopted by the Mikado; contributed to philological and literary journals in London and Paris; an authority on the Provençal language and literature; author of A first Japanese book for English students 1874; The night of the Gods, an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology 1893. d. Selling, near Faversham 12 Jany. 1895.

O’NEILL, John Robert (only son of Robert O’Neill of Talylyn, co. Brecon, who was brother of lady Becher). b. Ireland 1823; matric. from Magdalen hall, Oxf. 5 Dec. 1844; appeared on the stage at Exeter; a reader and lecturer; author of the plays, Don Roderick; The Loose fish; Mrs. Johnson; Ali Baba, or a night with the 40 thieves, extravaganza performed by the marionettes at the St. James’ theatre, London 27 Dec. 1852; An optical delusion, a farce, St. James’ theatre; under the name of Hugo Vamp, esq. he wrote the dramas Aladdin; The Arcadian brothers; Poll Practice; Roscius in spirits; The manager at home; composer (as Hugo Vamp) of Alonzo the brave 1856; Lord Ronald the bold, duke of Putney 1861; Mazeppa, the cream of Tartars 1869; King Leah, a comic scena 1872; Othello, a comic scena 1872. d. 39 Paulton square, Chelsea 12 June 1860. W. Donaldson’s Recollections of an actor (1865) 309–21; The Era 24 June 1860 p. 11.

ONSLOW, Georges (son of Edward Onslow). b. Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne 27 July 1784; pupil of Hullmandel, Dussek, and J. B. Cramer in England; studied music in Vienna two years; pupil of Reicha in Paris 1808; composed 3 operas, produced at the Théatre Feydeau, Paris, L’Alcalde de la Vega 10 Aug. 1824, Le Colporteur 22 Nov. 1827, and Le Duc de Guise 8 Sept. 1837; one of the first honorary members of the Philharmonic society, London 1832; nine of his symphonies were played at the Conservatoire concerts in Paris 1831, &c.; member of the French Institute Nov. 1842; published at Paris, Vienna and Leipsic 34 quintets, 36 quartets and 6 trios for piano, violin, and violincello 1824–50; printed in London An air for the pianoforte 1828. d. Clermont-Ferrand 3 Oct. 1853. F. Halevy’s Souvenirs et portraits, Paris (1861) 161–86; Georges Onslow, Esquisse par, Auguste Gathy.

ONSLOW, Guildford James Hillier Mainwaring-Ellerker (2 son of succeeding). b. Bulstrode st. London 29 March 1814; educ. Eton; lieut. Scots fusilier guards; M.P. Guildford 1858–74; assumed by R.L. additional names of Mainwaring-Ellerker 19 Aug. 1861; a friend of sir Roger Tichborne from 1847; a firm believer in the Tichborne claimant 1867, to whom he gave continuous support, assisted him with money and was a holder of Tichborne bonds, a believer in Tichborne to his death; the claimant in June 1895 admitted that he was Arthur Orton and not sir Roger Tichborne; author of Tichborne, Reasons why he should have the benefit of the doubt 1874; Two hundred facts proving the claimant to be Roger Tichborne, in De Morgan’s Popular series, No. 2, 1876. d. The Grove, Ropley, Alresford 20 Aug. 1882. bur. Old Alresford churchyard 24 Aug.

ONSLOW, Thomas Cranley (2 son of 2 earl of Onslow 1754–1827). b. 7 Oct. 1778; educ. Harrow; ensign 3 foot guards 29 April 1795, captain 26 Sept. 1805, sold out 1812; colonel 2 Surrey militia to 1852; M.P. Guildford 1806–18. d. Upton house, Alresford 7 July 1861.

ONSLOW, William. Cornet 11 dragoons 12 Dec. 1798, lieut. 26 Feb. 1801; captain 4 dragoons 29 Jany. 1805, major 23 Nov. 1820; major 88 foot 15 Feb. 1827, placed on h.p. 2 July 1829; major 55 foot 7 Feb. 1840, sold out same day; K.H. 1832.

Note.—He is in Burke’s and Dod’s Peerages 1887, but probably died some years before this date.

ONWHYN, Joseph. b. 1787; bookseller 3 Catherine st. Strand, London; published Onwhyn’s Guide to the Highlands of Scotland 1839; Onwhyn’s Welsh tourist 1840, 2 ed. 1853; Onwhyn’s Pocket guide to the Lakes 1841; and The Owl, a Wednesday journal of politics and society. First issue numbered 1001 27 April 1864, last issue 1095 22 July 1868, a satirical journal treating chiefly on political subjects. d. New Hillingdon, Cowley, Uxbridge, Middlesex 27 Nov. 1870.

ONWHYN, Thomas (youngest son of the preceding). b. London 1811; designer and engraver; in Additional illustrations to the Pickwick Papers by Samuel Weller, issued in 8 monthly parts, Lond. E. Grattan 1837, he executed 21 of the 32 plates, some of which bear his initials; and in Illustrations to Nicholas Nickleby by Peter Palette, esq., issued in 9 parts, Lond. E. Grattan 1839, he executed all the 40 plates, this work was reprinted in 1848, another set of illustrations to the same work by Onwhyn appeared in 1893; he illustrated The memoirs of David Dreamy 1839; Charles Selby’s Maxims and specimens of William Muggins 1841; M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1844; Etiquette illustrated by an X M.P. 1849; he illustrated the following works by Henry Cockton, Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist 1840; George St. George Julian, the Prince 1842; Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist 1844; The Love Match 1845; The Steward 1850; The Sisters 1851; Lady Felicia 1851; Percy Effingham 1853; under the name of Peter Palette he wrote Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s Visit to the Exhibition 1851; Peter Palette’s Tales and Pictures, 1856, second series 1856; with J. Onwhyn he produced Costumes of the times of George iii, designed for her majesty’s state ball 1845; his 12 pictures entitled Cupid and crinoline, dated 20 Oct. 1858, were reprinted in The Picture Magazine June 1893, pp. 326–7. d. 9 May’s buildings, Strand, St. Martin in the Fields, London 21 Jany. 1886, his son Thomas Onwhyn present at his death. Jas. Cook’s Bibliography of C. Dickens (1879) 12, 17, 83, 85.

OPIE, Amelia (only child of James Alderson of Norwich, physician, d. Oct. 1825). b. Calvert st. Norwich 12 Nov. 1769; took charge of her father’s house on her mother’s death 31 Dec. 1784; wrote a tragedy entitled Adelaide about 1787; author of The dangers of coquetry 2 vols. 1790, anon.; m. at Marylebone church 8 May 1798 John Opie, the Cornish painter, who d. April 1807, aged 46; received into the Society of Friends 11 Aug. 1825; author of The father and daughter 1801, 4 ed. 1804; Poems 1802, 6 ed. 1811; Adelaide Mowbray or the mother and daughter, 3 vols. 1804, new ed. 1844; Simple Tales 1806, 4 ed. 1815; The warrior’s return and other poems 1808; Temper or domestic scenes, 3 vols. 1812; Tales of real life, 3 vols. 1813, 3 ed. 1816; Valentine’s Eve, 3 vols. 1816; New tales, 4 vols. 1818; Tales of the heart, 4 vols. 1820; Madeline, 2 vols. 1822; Illustrations of lying in all its branches, 2 vols. 1825; Detraction displayed 1828; Lays for the dead 1834, 2 ed. 1840; a collected edition of her Miscellaneous tales was published in 12 vols. 1845–7. d. Castle Meadow, Norwich 2 Dec. 1853. bur. in the Friends’ burying-ground, Gildencroft, Norwich 9 Dec. C. L. Brightwell’s Memorials of life of A. Opie (1854) portrait; C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers, 2 series (1893) 175–90 portrait; Biographical catalogue of lives of friends (1888) 473–80; A book of memories by S. C. Hall (1877) 167–80; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii 15–30 (1858); J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters ii 237–84 (1863); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 329–36; A book of sibyls by Miss Thackeray (Mrs. R. Ritchie 1883) pp. 149–96; Cornhill magazine Oct. 1883 pp. 357–82.

ORANGE, James. b. 1799; minister of the Gospel, formerly resident at Castle terrace, Nottingham; edited Narrative of the late George Vason, missionary in the ship Duff, with An essay on the South Seas, Derby 1840; author of The ecclesiastical and civil history of the town and people of Nottingham, 2 vols. 1840; Synoptica Hebræa, Anglo-Hebrew Bible expositor, a manual of self instruction, London 1858; a teacher of Hebrew at 471 Mile end road, London 1866 to death. d. 471 Mile end road, London 6 Jany. 1878. Christian World 25 Jany. 1878 p. 72.

ORANMORE, Dominick Browne, 1 Baron (2 son of Dominick Geoffrey Browne, governor of Mayo 1755–1826). b. Sackville st. Dublin 28 May 1787; educ. Eton, Edinburgh, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.P. Mayo 1814–36; P.C. Ireland 1834; lord lieutenant of Mayo 1834–42; cr. baron Oranmore and Browne of Carra Browne castle, Oranmore, co. Galway and of Castle Mac Garrett, co. Mayo 4 May 1836. d. Brighton 30 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 296 (1860).

ORCZY, Bodog, Baron. b. Hungary 1835; composer of II rinnegato, opera in 3 acts, Hungarian libretto by Farkas Deak, Italian adaptation by S. C. Marchesi, English adaptation by Frederick Corder, London 1881. d. 23 Wimpole st. London 20 Jany. 1892.

ORD, Sir Harry St. George (eld. son of Harry Gough Ord, captain R.A.). b. North Cray, Kent 17 June 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 14 Dec. 1837; adjutant of the R.E. at Chatham 1 Jany. 1852 to July 1854; brigade major of the R.E. in the Baltic July 1854; lieut. col. R.E. 28 Nov. 1859, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 16 April 1869; lieutenant governor of Dominica 2 Sept. 1857; governor of the Bermudas 16 Feb. 1861 to Nov. 1866; governor of the Straits Settlements 5 Feb. 1867 to Nov. 1873; governor of Western Australia 12 Nov. 1877, retired on a pension 6 April 1880; C.B. 9 Oct. 1865; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1867; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. d. Homburg 20 Aug. 1885. bur. in churchyard of Fornham, St. Martin, near Bury St. Edmunds, portrait in chamber of legislative council, Bermuda.

ORD, John Walker (son of Richard Ord of Guisborough, Yorkshire, tanner). b. Guisborough 5 March 1811; educ. univ. of Edinb.; apprenticed to Robert Knox the anatomist; founded in London 1834 the Metropolitan literary journal, which was merged in the Britannia; author of England, a historical poem, 2 vols. 1834–5; Remarks on the sympathetic condition existing between the body and the mind, especially during disease 1836; The Bard and minor poems 1841; Rural sketches and poems chiefly relating to Cleveland 1845; The history and antiquities of Cleveland 1846; edited Roseberry Topping, a poem by Thomas Pierson, Stockton 1847. d. Guisborough 29 Aug. 1853. J. W. Ord’s History and antiquities of Cleveland (1846) portrait.

ORD, William Redman. b. about 1792; second lieut. R.E. 25 April 1809, colonel 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 20 April 1861 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Stoke Damarel, Devonport 11 April 1872.

ORDISH, Rowland Mason (son of John Ordish, land agent and surveyor). b. Melbourne, near Derby 11 April 1824; employed by R. E. Brounger, civil engineer, London 1847, afterwards by Charles Fox; made the working drawings for the iron work of the Great Exhibition building 1851, and was engaged on the re-erection of the building at Sydenham 1852–4; chief draughtsman in the works’ department of the admiralty at Somerset house Jany. 1856 to March 1858; engineer at 18 Great George st. Westminster 1858; partner with W. H. Le Feuvre; took out a patent April 1858 for an improvement in suspension bridges, which is known as Ordish’s straight chain suspension system; designed the Franz-Joseph bridge over the Moldau at Prague 1868, and the Albert bridge over the Thames at Chelsea, opened Sept. 1873, both constructed on this principle; designed the roof of the Dutch-Rhenish railway station at Amsterdam 1863, roof of the Dublin winter palace 1865, winter garden for Leeds infirmary 1868, and the railway station at Cape Town; designed with J. W. Grover the roof of the Albert Hall at South Kensington 1870; member of the Society of Engineers 1857, president 1860. d. Stratford place, Camden Town, London 12 Sept. 1886. bur. Highgate cemet.

O’REARDON, John. b. 1776; educ. Maynooth 1797; a physician 1802; studied in Paris 1803; a prisoner in France to 1814; physician to fever hospital, Cork st. Dublin 1814–48, wrote the annual reports for 1824, 1827, 1830 and 1833; physician to Daniell O’Connell; author of De ictero 1802; A memoir of Richard Kirwan, the chemist. d. Mount Prospect, Killarney 14 March 1866. Medical Times 31 March 1866 p. 353.

O’REGAN, Anthony. b. Kiltullagh, Ireland 1809; a priest in Tuam cathedral; professor and then president of St. Jarlath’s coll. Tuam; went to U.S. of America; vicar-general of diocese of St. Louis; president of the college of Carondelet and professor of theology and sacred scriptures; bishop of Chicago 1854, resigned 1858 and was transferred to the titular see of Dora; resided in Europe 1858 to death. d. Michael’s grove, Brompton, London 13 Nov. 1866. bur. Cloonfad, co. Galway, 22 Nov. The Tablet 17 Nov. 1866 p. 721, 1 Dec. p. 764.

O’REILLY, Bernard. b. co. Longford 1803; embarked for U.S. of America 17 Jany. 1825; educ. Ecclesiastical seminary, Montreal 1825, and at St. Mary’s coll. Baltimore; ordained in New York 13 Oct. 1831; a priest at St. James’ ch. Brooklyn from 1831; devoted himself to the sick during the cholera of 1832; pastor of St. Patrick’s ch. Rochester Dec. 1832; vicar-general of the new see of Buffalo Oct, 1847; consecrated bishop of Hartford in St. Patrick’s ch. 1850; introduced Sisters of mercy to the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and protected them against a mob in 1855; went to Europe 5 Dec. 1855; embarked at Liverpool on board the steamer Pacific on his return to his diocese 23 Jany. 1856, but the ship was never again heard of, requiem masses said for him in June 1856. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in United States ii 391–407 (1872).

O’REILLY, Bernard (son of a farmer). b. Ballybeg, co. Meath 10 Jany. or June 1824; educ. at St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 10 June 1836 to 17 May 1847; received tonsure and 4 minor orders 15 Feb. 1845, sub-deacon 20 Sept. 1845, deacon 19 Dec. 1846, priest 9 May 1847; assistant priest of mission at St. Patrick’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 18 May 1847 to 8 Dec. 1852; removed to new mission of St. Vincent de Paul 8 Dec. 1852, erected a new church 1857; canon of chapter of Liverpool 24 Dec. 1862 and vicar-general; bishop of Liverpool 28 Feb. 1873 to death; consecrated at St. Vincent’s, Liverpool 19 March 1873. d. St. Edward’s coll. Everton 9 April 1894. bur. Upholland cemet. Wigan 13 April. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii 423 (1877).

O’REILLY, Dowell (4 son of Matthew O’Reilly of Knock Abbey castle, co. Louth, d. Jany. 1817). b. May 1795; called to Irish bar; barrister L.I. 17 April 1832; attorney general of Jamaica 1831–55; nominated president of legislative council there June 1855, but he died before being inaugurated. d. St. Andrews, Kingston, Jamaica 13 Sept. 1855. bur. in R.C. cemet. Kingston 14 Sept. G.M. xliv 651 (1855).

O’REILLY, Edmund Joseph. b. London 30 April 1811; studied at Maynooth and the Irish college at Rome 1830, doctor in sacred theology 1835; professor of theology at Maynooth college 1838–50; member of the Society of Jesus 1852; teacher of theology at the Jesuits’ college of St. Beuno, near St. Asaph 1852–8; teacher of divinity in the catholic univ. of Ireland 1858–9; superior of the Jesuits’ house of retreat at Milltown Park, Dublin 1859 to death; Irish provincial of Society of Jesus 1863–70. d. Milltown Park 10 Nov. 1878. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. E. J. O’Reilly’s The relations of the church to society (1892) memoir pp. i–viii; Irish Monthly vi 695–700 (1878).

O’REILLY, John Boyle (2 son of Wm. David O’Reilly, master of the national school attached to the Netterville institution at Dowth Castle, near Drogheda 35 years, d. 17 Feb. 1871). b. Dowth Castle 28 June 1844; a compositor on the Guardian newspaper at Preston 1859, reporter on the paper to March 1863; a trooper in the 10 hussars May 1863, arrested at Island Bridge barracks, Dublin 13 Feb. 1866, tried by court martial at the royal barracks, Dublin 27 June 1866 for having in Dublin in January 1866 come to the knowledge of an intended mutiny in her majesty’s forces in Ireland and not giving information to his commanding officer, ordered to be shot 9 July, but eventually sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, sent to Western Australia Oct. 1867, escaped on an American whaler April 1869; editor and part proprietor of the Pilot newspaper in Boston 1870; took part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas, Boston 1873; Songs, legends, and ballads, Boston 1878; The statues in the block and other poems 1881; Ethics of boxing and manly sports 1888; In Bohemia, poems 1886; Moondyne, a story 1889; edited The poetry and songs of Ireland 1889; author with Robert Grant, F. J. Stimson, and J. T. Wheelwright of The king’s man, a tale of tomorrow 1884, a satirical novel. d. Winthrop st. Boston 10 Aug. 1890. bur. Holyhood cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts 12 Aug. J. J. Roche’s Life of J. B. O’Reilly (1891) portrait; Cosmopolitan ix 768 (1890) portrait; Irish Monthly xiii 19 (1885).

O’REILLY, Montagu Frederick. b. 1822; entered R.N. Feb. 1835, lieut. 12 Dec. 1845, capt. 23 June 1862, retired 1 April 1870, R.A. 9 March 1878; served in the Chinese war 1841; first lieut. of Retribution in Black sea during Russian war, wounded at Odessa 22 April 1854, present at attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854, Crimean medal, two Turkish medals and the medal of the Medjidié fifth class; author of Twelve views in the Black sea and the Bosphorus, with letterpress 1856, the original sketches are at Windsor Castle. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 20 May 1888.

O’REILLY, Myles William Patrick (only son of Wm. O’Reilly of Knock abbey, co. Louth 1792–1844). b. Dublin 13 March 1825; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham; B.A. London 1845, LL.D. Rome 1847; sheriff of co. Louth 1848; captain Louth rifles militia; major in service of Pius IX, commanded the Irish brigade, defended Spoleto against the Piedmontese troops Sept. 1860, but was obliged to surrender; M.P. co. Longford March 1862 to April 1879; assistant comr. of intermediate education in Ireland April 1879 to death; author of Progress of catholicity in Ireland in the nineteenth century 1865; Memorials of those who suffered for the Catholic faith in Ireland 1868, reprinted under the title of Lives of the Irish martyrs and confessors, New York 1878. d. Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. bur. Philipstown near Knock Abbey.

ORFORD, Horatio Walpole, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 earl of Oxford 1752–1822). b. Whitehall, London 14 June 1783; styled lord Walpole 1809–22; M.P. for King’s Lynn 1809–22; a lord of the admiralty 12 June 1811; secretary of embassy at St. Petersburgh 5 July 1812 to 5 April 1825 when pensioned, minister ad interim 1814–5; a comr. for the affairs of India 17 June 1818 to 17 Feb. 1822; succeeded to the peerage 15 June 1822; colonel West Norfolk militia 26 June 1822; high steward of Great Yarmouth 1833–6. d. Wolterton park, Aylsham, Norfolk 29 Dec. 1858.

ORFORD, Horatio Walpole, 4 Earl of (eld. child of preceding). b. Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 18 April 1813; styled lord Walpole 1822–58; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. for East Norfolk 1835–7; succeeded to the peerage 29 Dec. 1858. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1894.

O’RIORDAN, Daniell O’Connell. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880. d. 13 Aug. 1890.

ORKNEY, George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Orkney 1803–77). b. 6 May 1827; known as viscount Kirkwall 1831–77; ensign 92 foot 8 Aug. 1845; capt. 71 foot 23 Dec. 1853; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 25 Jany. 1856, sold out 25 Sept. 1857; served at siege of Sebastopol and capture of Kertch, medal and clasp and Turkish medal; aide-de-camp to sir Henry Wood in Ionian islands 1851–4; C.M.G. 1866, K.C.M.G. 28 May 1875; succeeded 16 May 1877; a representative peer for Scotland 19 Feb. 1885 to death; author of Four years in the Ionian islands 1864. d. 26 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 21 Oct. 1889.

ORLEANS, Helene Louise Elisabeth, Duchess of (youngest dau. of Frederic Louis, grand duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, d. 1816). b. Ludwigslust castle 24 Jany. 1814; m. at palace of Fontainebleau, France 30 May 1837 Ferdinand, duke of Orleans, prince royal of France, eld. son of Louis Philippe, king of the French, the duke was killed by a fall from his carriage 13 July 1842; she escaped to Belgium at outbreak of French revolution Feb. 1848; resided chiefly in Germany 1848–57, but was very frequently in England; lived at Cambourne house, Mr. William Paynter’s villa, Richmond, Surrey 1857–8. d. Cambourne house, Richmond 18 May 1858. H. Castille’s Portraits politiques, La duchess d’Orleans (1856); The duchess of Orleans, a translation by Mrs. Austin (1859); I.L.N. 23 July 1842 pp. 168–9, 29 May 1858 p. 544 portrait; G.M. June 1858 p. 668.

ORLEBAR, John (3 son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick house, Bedfordshire 1775–1833). b. Hinwick house 19 Oct. 1810; entered navy 16 March 1824; captain 1 Jany. 1861, retired 1 Oct. 1864; admiralty surveyor in British North America 30 years; retired admiral 15 July 1887. d. 91 Pevensey road, St. Leonards-on-Sea 11 May 1891. An account of families of Boase (1893) 112.

ORMATHWAITE, John Benn-Walsh, 1 Baron (only son of sir John Benn-Walsh, 1 baronet 1759–1825). b. Warfield park, Bracknell, Berks. 9 Dec. 1798; educ. Eton; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 3 Dec. 1816; sheriff of Berkshire 1823; succeeded as 2 bart. 7 June 1825; M.P. Sudbury 1830–4, and 1838–40; contested Radnorshire 19 Jany. 1835; contested Poole 25 July 1837; M.P. Radnorshire 1840–68; lord lieutenant of Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1842, resigned 1875; cr. baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite, Cumberland 16 April 1868; author of Poor laws in Ireland in their effect upon the capital, the prosperity, and the improvement of that country 1830, 3 ed. 1831; Popular opinion on parliamentary reform, 4 ed. 1831; Observation on the ministerial plan of reform 1831; On the present balance of parties in the state, 3 ed. 1832; Chapters of contemporary history 1836; The practical result of the reform act 1860; Astronomy and geology compared 1872; Lessons of the French revolution 1873. d. Warfield park 3 Feb. 1881.

ORME, Cosmo. b. Scotland 1780; apprenticed to James Fairbairn, bookseller, Edinburgh; clerk in house of Longman and Rees, London; partner in house of Longman, Rees, Hurst, and Orme 1803, retired June 1841; the first president of the Booksellers’ provident institution 15 Feb. 1837. d. Tunbridge Wells 12 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Aug., will proved 26 Aug. personalty sworn under £200,000. Bookseller Aug. 1859 p. 1169; G.M. vii 312 (1859).

ORME, Henry Robert. b. Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham, £50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10 May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. d. 103 Shoreditch, London 9 June 1864. bur. Abney park cemetery 14 June. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 253–70, 330–8 (1880) portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring (1888) 160–7; Fights for the championship, by the editor of Bell’s Life (1860) 244–55, 405; Illust. sporting news iii 196, 203 (1864) portrait.

Note.—He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was the only man who defeated Tom Sayers.

ORMEROD, Edward Latham (6 son of the succeeding). b. London 27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851; demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7; physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. d. 14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital reports vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873); J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 503–6.

ORMEROD, George (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.) b. High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school, Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818; purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester, with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby, 3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6; Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. d. Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. G. Ormerod’s History of Chester, 2 ed. vol. 1 (1875) portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 575 (1873).

ORMEROD, George Wareing (2 son of the preceding). b. Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford, Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S. 1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874; wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club 1888. d. Woodway, Teignmouth 6 Jany. 1891. Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 56; Academy xxxix 43 (1891).

ORMEROD, Thomas Johnson (brother of the preceding). b. 27 July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to 1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges, lectures, and sermons. d. Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec. 1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200. I.L.N. lxv 571 (1874).

ORMEROD, William Piers (brother of the preceding). b. Welbeck st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec 1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, d. Canterbury 10 June 1860. bur. St. Martin’s, Canterbury. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports, vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873).

ORMISTON, Thomas. b. Edinburgh 28 July 1826; worked as a builder with his father and uncle; an engineer working on the Clyde 1846–64; erected the Needles Rock lighthouse 1856–7; chief engineer to Elphinstone land and press company of Bombay 1864–73, reclaimed 328 acres of land from the sea; chief engineer of Bombay port trust 1873–77; constructed the Bombay wet dock 1875–80; fellow of univ. of Bombay; dean of faculty of engineering there 1879; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1880. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 9 July 1882. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi 409–15 (1883).

ORMOND, Francis (son of capt. Ormond of the mercantile marine). b. Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1829; educ. Liverpool; a squatter in Victoria, Australia, made a fortune; gave £40,000 for building the Presbyterian coll. Melbourne 1877–87; contributed to the Working men’s coll. 1887 and was the first president; founded Ormond coll. Melbourne; gave £20,000 to endow a chair of music at the Melbourne univ. 1887; member of legislative council; resided Egoleen, Toorak, Melbourne. d. Pau, France 5 May 1889, left £40,000 to Ormond coll., £10,000 to Melbourne Working men’s coll., and many other gifts to institutions and charities. P. Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 356–7; Times 11 May 1889 p. 12.

ORMONDE, John Butler, 2 Marquess of (eld. child of James Butler, 1 marquess of Ormonde 1774–1838). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 24 Aug. 1808; educ. Harrow 1821 etc.; known as viscount Thurles 1808–38; succeeded as 2 marquess 22 May 1838; hereditary chief butler of Ireland 1838 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Sept. 1841 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. 1853 to death; K.P. 17 Sept. 1845; author of An autumn in Sicily, an account of the remains of antiquity in that island, Dublin 1850; translated F. P. G. Guizot’s Meditations and moral sketches 1855, and A. Dumas’ Memoirs of a mâitre d’ armes 1856. d. Loftus hall, co. Wexford 25 Sept. 1854. bur. in Kilkenny cathedral 2 Oct. G.M. xlii 505 (1854); I.L.N. xxv 361 (1854).

ORMONDE, Alfred. b. Kilkenny 19 March 1816; dramatist. d. April or May 1852. Leipsig Illustrated News 23 May 1852 portrait.

ORMSBY, Arthur Sydney (youngest son of rev. Owen Ormsby). b. Seatown house, Dundalk Feb. 1825; articled to George Halpin, engineer 1839–44; resident engineer on a portion of Midland great western line; an engineer in U.S. of America 1849–51; assistant colonial engineer Melbourne, Australia 1852; executive engineer public works department Calcutta 1858–61; experimented on the water supply to London 1861, proposing to collect the rain fall before it reached the ground, and to discriminate between the potable water and the water for ordinary purposes; constructed water works at Hillbottom, Berks.; author of A new idea for the water supply of towns 1867. d. London 24 Feb. 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix 479–81 (1887).

ORMSBY, Henry W. (son of Henry Ormsby, R. of Kilskier, co. Meath). b. Kilskier Feb. 1812; educ. Trinity college, Dublin, B.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s Inns 1874; solicitor general for Ireland 1868 and 12 March 1874; attorney general 21 Jany. to 12 Nov. 1875; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1875; judge of landed estates court 12 Nov. 1875; judge of chancery division of high court of justice in Ireland 1878–85. d. Marine terrace, Bray 17 Sept. 1887. Law Times 1 Oct. 1887 p. 386.

ORMSBY, John William. Second lieut. R.A. 6 Aug. 1828; colonel R.A. 9 Aug. 1858; M.G. 5 April 1866; lieut. governor and commandant royal military academy Woolwich 1 April 1867 to death. d. Woolwich 17 March 1869.

ORNSBY, George (eld. son of George Ornsby of the Lodge, Lanchester, Durham, d. 1823). b. Darlington, Durham 9 March 1809; educ. Durham gr. sch. 1823–7; practised as a solicitor in Durham; studied theology at Univ. coll. Durham 1839–41; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1841–3; C. of Sedgefield, Durham 1843–4; C. of Whickham, Durham 1845–50; V. of Fishlake, South Yorkshire July 1850 to death; hon. M.A. Durham 1872; F.S.A. 29 May 1873; preb. of York 15 Feb. 1879 to death; author of Sketches of Durham 1846; York 1882 in Diocesan histories; edited for the Surtees society The works and letters of D. Granville, dean of Durham 1861–5; The correspondence of John Cosin, bishop of Durham, 2 vols. 1869–72, and Selections from the household book of lord William Howard of Naworth castle 1878. d. Fishlake vicarage 17 April 1886. Proc. of soc. of antiq. xi 376 (1886); Biograph July 1881 pp. 26–8.

ORNSBY, Robert (brother of preceding). b. 1820; educ. Linc. coll. Oxf.; exhibitioner 1836–43; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1843–7, and lecturer in rhetoric 1844; master of the schools; C. of St. Peter-the-less, Chichester 1845–7; entered the church of Rome May 1847; helped to manage the Tablet newspaper in Dublin; professor of classical literature in the Catholic univ. Dublin Oct. 1854–82; librarian at Arundel Castle a short time; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland and examiner in Greek 1882 to death; author of The life of St. Francis de Sales 1856; Η Καινη Διαθηκη the Greek testament from cardinal Mai’s edition of the Vatican bible, with notes, Dublin 1860; Memoirs of James Robert Hope Scott, Q.C., 2 vols. 1884. d. Earlsfort terrace, Dublin 21 April 1889. E. G. K. Browne’s Tractarian Movement (1861) 145, 151.

O’RORKE, Patrick Henry. b. co. Cavan, Ireland 25 March 1837; taken to U.S. of America 1838; educ. Rochester, New York; a marble cutter; second lieut. of engineers in the Federal army 24 June 1861, first lieut. 3 March 1863, brevet colonel 2 July 1863; served at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861; colonel of the 140th regiment of New York volunteers Sept. 1862, which became one of the best in the army of the Potomac; killed in the battle of Gettysburg 2 July 1863. Appleton’s American biography iv 591 (1888) portrait.

O’ROURKE, Hugh. Professor of English, rhetoric and French in royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1862–85; elected bishop of Clonfert 10 Feb. 1881, but declined the charge. d. 1885.

ORPEN, Sir Richard John Theodore (2 son of Francis Orpen, V. of Kilgarvan, co. Kerry, d. 1805). b. Cork 6 Nov. 1788; educ. Middleton and Cork; solicitor at Dublin 1809 to death; president of Incorporated society of attorneys and solicitors of Ireland 1860 to death; one of the comrs. to inquire into practice of courts of law and equity in Ireland; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868. d. 41 George’s st. Great North, Dublin 4 May 1876. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 8 May. I.L.N. lxviii 478 (1876); Irish Law Times x 266, 281, 300 (1876).

ORR, Sir Andrew (eld. son of Francis Orr of Glasgow, wholesale stationer). b. Glasgow 1802; educ. univ. of Glasgow; partner in firm of S. Orr and Co., stationers, Glasgow; member of town council 1842–60; lord provost of Glasgow 1854–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; took an active part in procuring for Glasgow a water supply, public parks, and a gallery of arts 1857–9; chairman of Glasgow and south western railway 1849; acquired estates of Harvieston and Castle Campbell 1859, Aberdona 1860, and Sheardale 1861. d. Bridge of Allan, Perthshire 19 April 1874. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii 253–4 (1886) portrait.

ORR, Charles Alexander. Second lieut. Madras engineers 9 June 1831, colonel 29 June 1863; colonel commandant 24 March 1871 to death; L.G. 20 March 1876. d. 6 Oct. 1876.

ORR, John H. b. Grey Abbey, co. Down 26 Nov. 1826; ordained at Antrim 19 March 1851; D.D.; clerk of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in Ireland 1869 to death; moderator of the general assembly 1887; sec. of the trustees of the fund of the Regium Donum; sent letters to The Times on 1 and 6 July 1892 in reply to Mr. Gladstone, giving the views of Irish Presbyterians on home rule. d. Antrim 23 Jany. 1895. Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p. 4 portrait.

ORR, Robert Scott (son of a chemist). b. Edinburgh 1819; apprentice to sir George Newbigging; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1840, M.R.C.S. 1866, M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1856; medical assistant royal lunatic asylum; superintendent Glasgow royal infirmary 1843, afterwards physician; member of general medical council 1 April 1878 to death; president of Faculty of physicians and surgeons 1880–3; author of Statistical tables of the Royal infirmary of Glasgow 1845–7, 3 vols.; Historical sketch of epidemic fever in Glasgow 1848. d. 9 Albany place, Glasgow 15 May 1886. Lancet i 1001 (1886).

ORR, Sutherland George Gordon. b. 1816; ensign European regiment (left wing) 23 Feb. 1836; captain 23 Madras light infantry 12 March 1846 to death; commandant 3 regt. Hyderabad cavalry 27 Jany. 1854 to death. d. at the residence of his brother-in-law Greenhill, Barnet, Herts. 19 June 1858. Mrs. C. Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine of a soldier’s life.

ORR, William Adam (eld. son of Wm. Orr, d. 1816). b. 1810; educ. Addiscombe coll.; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 15 Dec. 1826, colonel 9 June 1862 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 1862 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859; succeeded to the property of Patrick Orr of Bridgeton 1828. d. Weston super Mare 11 Sept. 1869.

ORR, William Somerville. Publisher at 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 1837–59; the London publisher of W. & R. Chambers’ works 1850; published Orr’s Circle of the Sciences, 9 vols. 1854–6; A primary atlas of ancient and modern geography 1855; in the employment of Chapman and Hall, publishers, London, at time of his death. d. 129 Blenheim crescent, Notting Hill, London 6 Jany. 1873. The Publishers’ circular 1 Feb. 1873 p. 72.

ORRIDGE, Benjamin Brogden. b. 1814; a medical agent and valuer at 30 Bucklersbury, London; common councilman for ward of Cheap 1863–9; chairman of the library committee of city of London; F.G.S.; member of London and Middlesex archæological society to 1870; author of A letter on eminent Londoners and civic records 1866; Some account of the citizens of London and their rulers from 1060 to 1867, 1867; Some particulars of alderman Philip Malpas and alderman sir Thomas Cooke, K.B. 1868; Illustrations of Jack Cade’s rebellion from researches in the Guildhall records 1869. d. 33 St. John’s Wood park, London 17 July 1870. Trans. of London and Middlesex Archæol. Soc. iv 70–1 (1871).

ORRIDGE, Ellen Amelia (eld. dau. of Edward Orridge of 2 Houghton place, Ampthill square, London). b. London 1856; educ. Royal academy of music under Manuel Garcia 1875, took bronze medal 1876, silver and gold medal 1877, Parepa gold medal, second Christine Nilsson prize and certificate of the Academy 1878; had a fine contralto voice; sang in Mr. Pyatt’s autumnal tour concerts 1877 and 1878, at John Boosey’s ballad concerts 1878, and at A. and S. Gatti’s promenade concerts 1878; sang in oratorios at Birmingham and other places. d. Guernsey 16 Sept. 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 21 Sept. Illust. sp. and dr. news x 265, 271 (1878) portrait.

ORROCK, Hector Heatley (2 son of James Orrock, dentist). b. Edinburgh; educ. Edinb. high sch. under Dr. Boyd; with an architect in Edinb. to 1853; architect in London 1853–4, and in Edinb. from 1854 to death; exhibited drawings at Royal Scottish academy exhibitions. d. 19 Broughton place, Edinburgh 15 Feb. 1862.

ORTON, Charles James. b. 1817; solicitor in city of London 1843 to death; sworn attorney of the mayor’s court and clerk of enrolment in the court of hustings 1848 to death, his duties were to attend the lord mayor as legal adviser and assessor at all wardmotes where he presided, and on the election of an alderman and to enrol all deeds in the court of hustings, served under 45 lord mayors and witnessed the election of 72 aldermen; master of the Clothworkers’ company July 1883 to July 1884. d. Ferry house, River side, Twickenham 6 Feb. 1893.

ORTON, James. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 26 March 1809, surgeon 17 May 1820, retired 15 Jany. 1840; member of Bombay medical board 1835, president Jany. 1838 to 15 Jany. 1840. d. 3 Oxford parade, Cheltenham 15 Feb. 1857.

ORTON, Reginald (only son of James Orton, inspector-general of Bombay hospitals). b. Surat, near Bombay 27 Jany. 1810; educ. Richmond gr. sch. Yorkshire; apprenticed to his father in Bombay; studied at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1833; L.S.A. 1834; surgeon at Sunderland 1834 to 1861 or 1862; surgeon to Sunderland eye infirmary; was the means of Sunderland obtaining its system of gas lighting, water supply, &c.; one of the chief agents in obtaining the repeal of the duty on glass and windows 24 April 1845; patented in 1845 a new form of reel lifebuoy and a new lifeboat; invented an æther inhaling apparatus. d. Ford North farm, Bishopwearmouth 1 Sept. 1862. G.M. Nov. 1862 pp. 644–6.

OSBALDESTON, George (son of George Osbaldeston of Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, d. 1794). b. Wimpole st. London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8, and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs. he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket 5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won; fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17 April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the Squire. d. 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866. C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana (1867) 6–54; Baily’s Mag. ii 295–306 (1861) portrait; Sporting Review lvi 170–80 (1866) portrait; Day’s Reminiscences of the turf (1891) 84, 85; Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck (1892) 402–8; Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences (1843) 43–6; Wildrake’s Cracks of the day (1841) 32–5; H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport (1895); Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 342 (1862); Grace’s Cricket (1891) 21 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news ix 144, 163 (1878) portrait.

OSBORN, George (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper 1764–1836). b. Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester 1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863 and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols. 1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. d. 24 Cambrian road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. Wesleyan Methodist mag. June 1891 pp. 468–78 portrait; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp. 124, 126 portrait, 2 May 1891 p. 563 portrait.

OSBORN, Marmaduke Clark (4 son of Samuel Osborn, cutler). b. Sheffield 22 Oct. 1827; educ. Richmond; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Cambridge 1850–3, at Liverpool 1859–65, 1871–4, and at London 1868–71; missionary secretary, London 1877 to death; secretary of the conference 1878–80; corrected and enlarged William Hill’s An alphabetical arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist ministers 11 ed. 1869, 12 ed. 1874, 13 ed. 1878, and 14 ed. 1882. d. of influenza at Hydropathic establishment, Baslow, Derbyshire 11 May 1891. bur. Norwood cemet. 15 May. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. July 1891 pp. 553–5; J. E. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London (1870) 227; Methodist Recorder 14 May 1891 p. 377 portrait.

OSBORN, Robert Durie (son of Henry Roche Osborn, lieut. col. 13 Bengal N.I., d. 1849). b. Agra 6 Aug. 1835; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1854, lieut. 1857; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8, and with the Bundelcund field force 1859–60; lieut. Bengal staff corps 1857, major 20 Dec. 1873, retired with hon. rank of lieut. col. 1 May 1879; captain 12 regiment of Bengal cavalry 1868–72; served through Afghan campaign of 1879; resided at 20 Winchester road, Hampstead 1879 to death; London correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman; author of Islam under the Arabs 1876; Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Lawn tennis, its players and how to play 1881, 2 ed. 1884. d. of syncope while playing lawn tennis at the Hyde Park tennis court, London 19 April 1889, portrait by J. R. Hodgson exhibited at the R.A. 1877. Academy xxxv 304 (1889); Athenæum i 538 (1889).

OSBORN, Samuel (brother of Marmaduke Clark Osborn 1827–91). b. Sheffield Aug. 1826; a file maker Brook hill, Sheffield 1851; a manufacturer of steel railway materials in the Wicker, Sheffield, took J. E. Fawcett into partnership; head of firm of Samuel Osborn and co., Clyde steel and iron works, Sheffield; master cutler 1873; suspended payment April 1873 with heavy liabilities, bought back the business paying a composition of 12s. in the pound, paid all his creditors in full 9 Feb. 1884, and was presented with a testimonial April 1884; mayor of Sheffield 1890; removed to the Rutland works, Sheffield 1885. d. Blackpool 7 July 1891. bur. Ecclesall 11 July. Sheffield Independent 8 July 1891 p. 5, 10 July p. 6, 13 July pp. 5–6.

OSBORN, Sherard (eld. son of Edward Osborn, colonel Madras army). b. 25 April 1822; entered navy Sept. 1837; commanded the Pioneer steam tender in the Arctic expedition under captain Austin 1850–1; commanded the Pioneer again in the Arctic expedition under sir Edward Belcher 30 Oct. 1852, all the ships were abandoned 20 Aug. 1854; commanded the Vesuvius in the Black Sea 1855; senior officer in Sea of Azov June 1855 to end of the war; commanded the Furious in the Chinese war 1857, and the Donegal in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican war 1861–2; commanded the Royal Sovereign 1864; agent at Bombay to the Great Indian Peninsular railway 1865–6; managing director of the Telegraph construction and maintenance company 1867–71; R.A. 29 May 1873; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; contested Birkenhead 18 Nov. 1868; wrote many papers in Blackwood’s Mag.; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of Stray leaves from an Arctic journal 1852, 2 ed. 1865; Quedah, or stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters 1857, 2 ed. 1865; A cruise in Japanese waters 1859; The career, last voyage and fate of sir John Franklin 1860; The past and future of British relations in China 1860; Japanese fragments with facsimiles of illustrations 1860; edited The discovery of a north-west passage by captain M’Clure 1856, 3 ed. 1865. d. 33 Charles st. Berkley sq. London 6 May 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 May. Geographical Mag. ii 161 (1875); Colburn’s United service mag. 1875 part 2, p. 254; I.L.N. xx 336 (1852) portrait, lxvi 475, 489, 495, 571 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 486, 492 (1875) portrait.

OSBORNE, Catherine Rebecca (eld. dau. of Robert Smith, major R.E.). b. 1795; m. 4 April 1816 sir Thomas Osborne, 8 baronet, b. 1757, d. 3 June 1821. She d. Newton Anner, co. Tipperary 10 Oct. 1856. Memorial of life of Lady Osborne, edited by her daughter Mrs. Osborne 2 vols. (1870).

OSBORNE, George Alexander (3 son of the organist of Limerick cathedral). b. Limerick 24 Sept. 1806; studied music at Brussels 1824–6; chapel master to the prince of Orange 1826–31; wrote with Charles A. de Bériot 33 duets for violin and pianoforte; served as a volunteer on the royalist side during Belgian revolution of 1830; resided in Paris 1831–44, and in London 1844 to death; made tours of the provinces with other musicians; a popular teacher of the piano, noted for his performances of Bach’s music; member of the Philharmonic Society and of the Musical Association and a director of the Royal academy of music; wrote Sylvia and another opera; La pluie de perles, valse brillante 1848; Classical pianoforte works 1851–2, thirty numbers; Fallen leaves, twelve short pieces 1861; The reapers, a part song 1862; The communion service 1878; his name is attached to upwards of 250 pieces of music 1834–84. d. 5 Ulster terrace, Regent’s park, London 17 Nov. 1893. Musical times Dec. 1893 and Jany. 1894.

OSBORNE, George Willoughby. b. 1808; second lieut. Madras army 6 April 1820; lieut. 19 Madras N.I. 17 July 1823, captain 25 May 1830, major 14 March 1843, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1850 to 1855; lieut. col. of 46 N.I. 1855–7, of 31 light infantry 1857–8, of 32 N.I. 1858–60, of 48 N.I. 1860–1, and of 33 N.I. 1861 to 31 Dec. 1861; commandant Thayat Mew 22 March 1859 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. 5 Lower Seymour st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

OSBORNE, Hugh Stacey. b. 1770; entered Bombay army 1788; lieut. 1 Oct. 1790; captain European infantry 6 March 1800, major 25 Feb. 1807 to 6 July 1811, lieut. col. 1813–15; lieut. col. 1 Bombay N.I. 1815; col. 14 N.I. 27 May 1825 to death; M.G. 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1854. d. Brighton 15 Sept. 1855.

OSBORNE, John. b. Yorkshire; hunting groom to Mr. Taylor of Kirton; trained Ararat for Liverpool races; trained horses in the North; trained for the marquis of Westminster 1842; trained some horses which his son rode; ran Exact and Lambton at York 1852; had 40 brood mares; ran Brown Brandy. Cherry Brandy, and Lord Alford; trained for lord Zetland, lord Londesborough, and sir Charles Monk. d. Aug. 1865. bur. Coverham ch. yard. Sporting Review Sept. 1865 pp. 165–8.

OSBORNE, John (son of Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol). b. 10 Oct. 1810; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835; Q.C. 29 Nov. 1862; judge of county courts circuit S. Lancashire 26 Jany. 1871 to death. d. Bent house, near Prestwich, Lancs. 23 Nov. 1872. Law Times liv 122 (1872).

OSBORNE, John William Willoughby. b. 25 Sept. 1833; ensign Indian army 1 Jany. 1850; executive engineer Mhow division July 1855; political agent at Réwah 1857, defeated the mutineers near Réwah in nine actions 1857, and preserved Bandalkhand during the mutiny; lieut. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1876 to death; hon. aide-de-camp to the governor general Feb. 1858; C.B. 18 May 1860; adviser to the Begum of Bhopal 1860; administered the Gwalier state to death, where he was in much favor with Scindhia; colonel in the army 2 April 1877; hon. A.D.C. to the viceroy of India; author of A pilgrimage to Mecca by Sikandar Begam, followed by a sketch of the reigning family of Bhopal 1870. d. Mussoree 4 Oct. 1881. Army and navy mag. iii 539–45 (1882); Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny v 75–7, 134, vi 167 (1889).

OSBORNE, Sidney Godolphin (3 son of 1 baron Godolphin 1777–1850). b. Stapleford, Cambs. 5 Feb. 1808; educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Stoke-Pogis, Bucks. 1832–41; R. of Durweston-with-Bryanstown, Dorset 1841–75; inspected the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean war 1855; granted the rank of a duke’s son 28 June 1859; wrote letters in the Times, all signed with the initials S. G. O. 1844–88; author of A word or two about the new poor law 1835, 8 ed. 1836; Hints to the charitable 1838; Hints for the amelioration of the moral condition of village populations 1839; Gleanings in the west of Ireland 1850; Lady Eva, her last days, a tale 1851; Scutari and its hospitals 1855. d. Lewes, Sussex 9 May 1889. Letters of S. G. O. edited by Arnold White, 2 vols. (1888) portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait; I.L.N. 25 May 1889 p. 647 portrait; Punch 18 May 1889 p. 235.

OSBORNE, William Alexander (son of William Osborne of Worcester). b. Clapham, Surrey 1814; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1824, captain of the school 1831–2; Camden exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. 1832; Craven scholar 1836, senior chancellor’s medalist 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; ordained 1838; head master Macclesfield gram. sch. 1836–49; head master of Rossall sch. 1849, retired on £400 a year 1869; English chaplain Wiesbaden 1870–75; R. of Doddington, Somerset 1876–88; prebendary of Wells 1876 to death; author of The revised version of the New Testament, a critical commentary 1882; with C. Girdleston Horace with notes 1848. d. Melrose house, Hampton road, Teddington, Middlesex 4 Jany. 1891. The Little Journal i 219–21 (1884).

OSCROFT, John. b. Arnold, Notts. 21 July 1807; a frame work knitter; played in Nottingham cricket matches many seasons; in Nottingham v. England match 1845 he was 3½ hours at the wicket; bowler to various clubs in England and Scotland; kept a public house at Nottingham 1854 to death. d. of dysentery Nottingham 28 Sept. 1857. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii 85 (1862).

OSCROFT, John. b. Arnold, Notts. 24 March 1846; a frame work knitter; professional cricketer at the Old Trafford ground, Manchester 1864, at Lord’s 1865, at Bradford 1866–7; played in Gentlemen of Yorkshire v. M.C.C. at Lord’s 18 and 19 May 1865; played with the All England eleven 1868; engaged with the East Lanarkshire club at Blackburn 1870–3, and at Burnley 1874–5; a good hitter and fine medium pace bowler. d. Arnold 16 June 1885. Marylebone club cricket scores ix 25 (1877); Bell’s Life in London 17 June 1885 p. 4.

OSGOOD, James Ripley. b. Fryeburg, Maine, U.S. of America 1836; graduated at Bowdoin college, Maine; a manager for Charles Dickens in America 1867; agent for Harper brothers, publishers at 30 Fleet st. London 1888–90; head of the firm of Osgood, Mc Ilvaine and co. publishers 45 Albemarle st. London 1890 to death; compiled Massachusetts Artists’ centennial album 1876; Osgood’s Pocket guide to Europe 1882. d. 161A Piccadilly, London 18 May 1892. J. Forster’s Charles Dickens iii 391, 395 (1874).

O’SHANASSY, Sir John (son of Denis O’Shanassy, land surveyor, d. 1831). b. Henry street, Tipperary 1818; landed in Port Philip bay, Victoria 15 Nov. 1839; a draper in Melbourne 1846; a promoter of the Colonial bank 1856, chairman of the board of directors 14 years; founded the St. Patrick’s society; one of the members for Melbourne in the first legislative council of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851; leader of the opposition in the council; a member of the gold commission 1855, and of the crown land commission 1855; member for Kilmore of the first legislative assembly Sept. 1856 to 1866; premier and chief secretary 11 March to 29 April 1857, premier again 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; negotiated the first Victorian loan of eight millions; created knight of the order of St. Gregory the Great by pope Pius IX in 1866; member for Central province of the legislative council Feb. 1868 to 1874; member of the assembly for Belfast May 1877 to death; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870, K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; author of Primary education in Victoria, speeches, Melbourne 1878. d. Tara hall, near Melbourne 8 May 1883. Irish Monthly xvii 586–90 (1889); James F. Hogan’s The Irish in Australia (1887) 13, 265–8, 271–4.

O’SHAUGNESSY, Arthur William Edgar. b. London 14 March 1844; a junior assistant in the British Museum library 27 June 1861, assistant in the zoological department 5 Aug. 1863 to death, prepared the part of the annual zoological record devoted to herpetology; an authority on Reptilia; author of An epic of women and other poems 1870; Lays of France 1872; Music and moonlight 1874; Songs of a worker 1881; author with his wife of Toyland 1875, a book of tales for children; m. 1873 Eleanor, dau. of Westland Marston, the dramatist, she d. 8 Feb. 1879; he d. 163 Goldborne road, Kensal Green, London 30 Jany. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 3 Feb. L. C. Moulton’s Arthur O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work (1894), memoir pp. 13–46 portrait; E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets (1887) 284, 440; A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii 171–92 (1893); H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 508–12; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 629–32 (1883).

O’SHAUGHNESSY, Michael. b. 1797; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 16 June 1859. d. Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept. 1884.

O’SHAUGHNESSY, Sir William Brooke, afterwards Sir William O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick). b. Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830; entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major 1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta; laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847, director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854; connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired 1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A. Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases 1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842; The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta 1844. d. Southsea 10 Jany. 1889. Laurie’s Distinguished Anglo-Indians, 1st series (1887) 281–2.

OSLER, Edward (eld. son of Edward Osler). b. Falmouth 30 Jany. 1798; educ. Guy’s hospital, London, M.R.C.S. 1818; resident house surgeon to Swansea infirmary about 1819–25; a surgeon in the navy 1825; visited the West Indies; on the staff in London and Bath of the Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge about 1836; edited at Truro the Royal Cornwall gazette 1841 to death; published with rev. W. J. Hall Psalms and hymns, adapted to the services of the church of England 1836, to which he contributed 15 versions of the psalms and 50 hymns, including the well known hymn O God unseen yet ever near; author of The voyage 1830, a poem; Life of admiral viscount Exmouth 1835, revised editions 1841 and 1854; Church and dissent considered in their practical influence 1836. d. The Parade, Truro 7 March 1863. bur. Kenwyn where is memorial window. Julyan’s Hymnology (1892) 873.

OSMENT, David. b. 24 June 1775; initiated in the Lodge of benevolence, No. 459, at Sherborne Jany. 1820; J.D. and S.D., tyler for 20 years and janitor to the chapter for five years; an annuitant on the Royal masonic benevolent fund 1850 to death. d. Sherborne, Dorset 21 March 1875. I.L.N. 10 April 1875 p. 345 portrait.

OSSINGTON, John Evelyn Denison, 1 Viscount (eld. son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison of Ossington, Notts., M.P. Chichester, d. 6 May 1820). b. Ossington 27 Jany. 1800; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 22 June 1870; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1823–6; M.P. Hastings 1826–30; M.P. Notts. 1831–2; M.P. South Notts. 1832–7; M.P. Malton 1841–57; M.P. North Notts. 1857–72; counsel to the lord high admiral 2 May 1827 to 4 Feb. 1828; speaker of house of commons 30 April 1857 to 8 Feb. 1872, when he retired, but refused the usual pension; mainly instrumental in passing 18 and 19 Vict. c. 34, ‘1855 An act to provide for the education of children in the receipt of outdoor relief,’ which is known as Denison’s act; P.C. 6 May 1857; cr. viscount Ossington of Ossington, co. Nottingham 13 Feb. 1872. d. Ossington hall, Newark, Notts. 7 March 1873. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire worthies (1882) 366–68 portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 20–21 portrait; Illust. news of the world iii 65 (1859) portrait; I.L.N. xxx 455, 456 (1857) portrait, lxii 259, 297, 355 (1873) portrait.

OSTEN, Wilhelm, Baron Osten. Lieutenant first regiment of light dragoons king’s German legion 10 Nov. 1803; lieutenant 16 lancers 17 Nov. 1808; major 25 Oct. 1827, sold out 7 March 1834; K.H. 1823; a general in Hanoverian service. d. Rufford abbey, Notts. 24 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 299 (1852).

OSTREHAN, Georgiana Augusta (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan). b. 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. d. at the Convent 5 Jany. 1884. Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 221–32 portrait.

O’SULLIVAN, Michael. b. 3 Oct. 1823; educ. Oscott and at English coll. at Rome; matric. univ. of London; a priest in Birmingham, Brewood, and Stafford; canon of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham; vicar general of Birmingham diocese to 1879; member of Birmingham school board Nov. 1870 to death; resided at Solihull from 1879. d. Solihull, Birmingham 12 Jany. 1892.

O’SULLIVAN, Mortimer (2 son of a schoolmaster at Clonmel, Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1791 or 1792; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1832; second master of Tipperary endowed school and curate of parish of Tipperary about 1820; the first master of the royal school at Dungannon; chaplain of St. Stephen’s chapel, Dublin; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 20 Dec. 1827 to 24 Aug. 1830; R. of Killyman, co. Armagh 24 Aug. 1830; gave evidence before committees of lords and commons on the state of Ireland 1825, and on Orange lodges 1835; Donellan lecturer at Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; R. of Tanderagee, near Ballymore 1853 to death; prebendary of Armagh to death; author of Captain Rock detected, or the origin and character of the recent disturbances. By A Munster farmer 1824; A guide to an Irish gentleman in his search for a religion, Dublin 1833; The case of the protestants of Ireland stated 1836; Of the apostasy predicted by St. Paul, Dublin 1842; Theory of developments in Christian doctrine 1846; The hour of the Redeemer 1853. d. Dublin 30 April 1859. bur. Chapelizod churchyard.

O’SULLIVAN, Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. Clonmel 13 Sept. 1790; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1825, D.D.; C. of St. Catherine’s, Dublin 1818, and chaplain of the Marshalsea, Dublin 1819; chaplain to the royal Hibernian military school in Phœnix park, Dublin 1827 to death; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag., Fraser’s Mag., and the Dublin Univ. review; author of The agency of divine providence manifested in the principal transactions connected with the history of Great Britain from the reformation to the revolution in 1688, Dublin 1816; The catechism of the united church of England and Ireland explained and confirmed, Dublin 1850. d. Royal Hibernian school, Dublin 6 Aug. 1851. bur. churchyard of Chapelizod, Dublin 9 Aug. Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1851 pp. 504–8; Remains of rev. S. O’Sullivan, 3 vols. (1853) memoir vol. i pp. i–xlviii.

O’SULLIVAN, William Henry (only son of Thomas Luke O’Sullivan of Rathkeale, co. Limerick). b. 1829; merchant Kilmallock, co. Limerick; under strict police surveillance, his house at Kilmallock being the rendezvous of the Fenians down to 1867, when they resorted to arms; imprisoned in Limerick gaol some months, but never brought to trial 1867; sat as a home rule M.P. for co. Limerick 1874–85; a follower of C. Parnell for some time; chairman of Kilmallock board of guardians. d. Kilmallock 27 April 1887.

OSWALD, Alexander Haldane (son of Richard Alexander Oswald, d. 1822). b. 1811; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; M.P. Ayrshire 1843–52; contested Weymouth 10 July 1852, and Ayrshire 30 Dec. 1854; inherited Aunchincruive estate near Ayr, from his uncle James Oswald, M.P. in 1853; assumed the name of Haldane. d. Aunchincruive house 6 Sept. 1868. I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1868 p. 283.

OSWELL, William Cotton (elder son of Wm. Oswell of Shrewsbury). b. Leytonstone, Essex 27 April 1818; educ. Rugby and Haileybury; served in Madras civil service 1837–47, ordered to South Africa for his health, where he spent two years hunting and exploring; discovered Lake Ngami with Dr. Livingstone 1849, and the Zambesi 1851; the Knabaõba or straight-horned rhinoceros was named Oswellii after Oswell; returned to England 1853; served as a volunteer, in the trenches and hospitals, during war in the Crimea; carried secret service money from lord Raglan to sir Lintorn Simmons at Shumla; resided at Groombridge, Kent 1860 to death; contributed four chapters on South Africa to C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting 1894. d. Hillside, Groombridge 1 May 1893. C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting (1894) memoir vol. i 28–34; Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1894 pp. 307–12; Daily Graphic 9 May 1893 p. 14 portrait.

OSWIN, Charles Hannay. A member of the Marylebone literary and scientific institution, established April 1832, where he was known as Alphabet Owen; a writer on the Dispatch 1838; a writer of verses; was residing in Harley st. London in 1842; author of Elsdale hall, or the days of Oliver Cromwell, a play in 3 acts, with the pirate’s bride and other poems 1843. The Town ii 513 (1838).

Note.—Elsdale hall was produced by Miss Kelly in 1842.

OTLEY, Jonathan. b. Loughrigg, Westmoreland 11 Jany 1766; resided at Keswick; author of A concise description of the English lakes, with observations on mineralogy and geology, Keswick 1825, 6 ed. 1837, 8th ed. to which is added an excursion through Lonsdale to the caves 1849. d. Keswick 7 Dec. 1856.

OTTAWAY, Cuthbert John (only son of James Cuthbert Ottaway of Inverness terrace, Bayswater). b. Dover 20 July 1850; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., scholar 1869–74, B.A. 1874; in the Eton eleven 1867–69, in the Oxford eleven 1870–3, secretary of the Oxford univ. cricket club 1872, president 1873; played for the Gentlemen against the Players 1870; one of Fitzgerald’s eleven in America 1872; played for Middlesex 1872, making an average of 89 runs; the Oxford racquet and tennis champion 1870–2; played in the football team against Scotland 1872, and in the first match Oxford against Cambridge 3 Dec. 1873; barrister I.T. 1876. d. 34 Westbourne place, Harrow road, London 2 April 1878. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 350; Marylebone club cricket scores x 177 (1878).

OTTER, Francis (1 son of Francis Otter of Ranby hall, Louth). b. 4 Nov. 1832; educ. Rugby and Corpus Christi coll. Oxf., scholar 1850–61, fellow 1861–75, tutor, vice-president 1871; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1856; mathematical moderator 1859, 1861, and 1869; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; returned as a liberal for Louth division of Lincolnshire Dec. 1885 to 1886; contested the Sleaford division of Lincolnshire Sept. 1889; an intimate friend of George Eliot. d. 37 Gordon sq., London 29 May 1895.

OTTER, Henry Charles. b. 1807; entered R.N. 1822; commanded the Sparrow, the Avon, the Porcupine and the Shamrock surveying vessels 1844 etc.; capt. R.N. 8 Sept. 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; compiled Scotland, North West coast, Little Minch, its lights, buoys, etc. 1859; F.R.A.S. 11 Nov. 1842; published Sailing directions for the west coast of Scotland 1867; and with W. Stanton Western Hebrides, sailing directions for the sound of Harris 1859. d. Clare park, Hants. 26 March 1876. Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xxxvii 152 (1877).

OTTER, William Bruere (eld. son of Wm. Otter, bishop of Chichester 1768–1840). Educated St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1838; V. of Cowfold, Horsham 1839 to death; prebendary of Chichester cathedral 1850 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 1855 to death; author of The ornaments of ministers, Brighton 1866. d. Cowfold vicarage 25 June 1876.

OTTLEY, Henry (son of William Young Ottley, F.A.S., 1771–1836). b. 1811; author of Remarkable sieges, from the siege of Constantinople in 1453 to that of Sebastopol 1854, 1854; Fechter’s version of Othello critically analysed 1861; A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, forming a supplement to Bryan’s Dictionary of painters 1866; On the errors of diplomacy, with reference to the treaty of Washington 1872. d. Torquay 3 Feb. 1878. Times 6 Feb. 1878 p. 1.

OTTLEY, Lawrence. b. 1808; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1850 to death; canon of Ripon 1858 to death; proctor in convocation for Richmond; revised W. Barne’s A selection of psalms and hymns 1852; and printed some sermons. d. London 11 June 1861.

OTTON, George Ralph. b. 1825; entered the house of Simpkin, Marshall and co. publishers, Stationers’ hall court 1837, where he became the right hand man of the chief partner Mark Lockwood; a partner in the firm 1859 to death. d. 34 Highbury hill, London 24 Jany. 1878. The Bookseller 1 Feb. 1876 p. 84.

OTWAY, Sir George Graham, 2 baronet (son of sir Robert Waller Otway, bart. 1772–1846). b. Westwood, near Southampton Sept. 1816; entered navy 15 July 1828; succeeded his father 13 May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; commander of Virago steam sloop in Mediterranean; admiral on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. d. the Rione Amadeo, Naples 22 Aug. 1881.

OTWAY, John Hastings (eld. son of rev. Cæsar Otway 1768–1842). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 25 July 1808; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1832; professor of law of personal property at Dublin twice; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; judge of Antrim county court 1858 to death; recorder of Belfast 1867 to death; author of Public opinion, a lecture 1854. d. Lisburn, co. Antrim 28 May 1884.

OTWAY, Loftus (only son of sir Loftus Wm. Otway, K.C.B., colonel 84 foot 1774–1854). b. Brighton 4 Sept. 1815; attached to the missions at Stockholm 1830, at St. Petersburgh 1833, and at Madrid 1834; paid attaché at Lisbon 1843, at Madrid 1845; sec. of legation at Madrid 1850 and chargé d’affaires 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857; minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 19 Feb. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1859; consul general at Milan 2 April 1860 to death; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. Madrid 26 Sept. 1861.

OTWAY, Sir Loftus William (4 son of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway, d. Dec. 1800). b. 28 April 1775; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 May 1796; major 18 dragoons 12 Feb. 1807 to 1811, when placed on h.p; served in Ireland during rebellion 1798; saw service in Peninsular war, commanded 3 regt. of Portuguese cavalry at Albuhera; colonel 84 foot 30 Dec. 1840 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; knight commander of Spanish order of Charles III; knighted by prince regent 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. 13 Grosvenor square, London 7 June 1854. bur. Highgate cemet. G.M. xlii 389 (1854); Cansick’s Epitaphs at St. Pancras ii 76 (1872).

OUDIN, Eugene (of French parentage). b. New York 1858; a member of the New York bar 1879; came to London 1886 and sang at private parties; appeared as the Templar in Sullivan’s Ivanhoe at the English opera house, London 31 Jany. 1891 with great success; a baritone; sang in Peter Tschaikowsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Olympic theatre on 17 Oct. 1892; translated Albert Carré’s The Basoche 1891, and P. Ferrier’s Elaine, an opera 1892; sang at concerts French songs, which he adapted to English verse; sang at Birmingham festival Oct. 1894; an expert amateur photographer; taken ill at the Richter concert at the Queen’s hall 20 Oct. 1894, carried home in an ambulance. d. 31 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 4 Nov. 1894. bur. Brompton cemetery 8 Nov. The Times 5 Nov. 1894; Illust. sp. and dr. news 10 Nov. 1894 p. 337 portrait.

OUSELEY, Sir Frederick Arthur Gore, 2 Baronet (younger son of sir Gore Ouseley, diplomatist, 1 baronet 1770–1844). b. Grosvenor square, London 12 Aug. 1825, godson of dukes of Wellington and York; educ. privately and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, Mus. Bac. 1850, Mus. Doc. 1854, incorporated Mus. Doc. at Durham 1856, Cambridge 1862, and Dublin 1888; succeeded his father 1844; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London, and C. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London 1849–51; precentor of Hereford cathedral 1855; professor of music in univ. of Oxford May 1855 to death; LL.D. Camb. 1883, LL.D. Edinb. 1884; canon residentiary of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; composed music at three years of age and opera to words by Metastasio at eight; composed two oratorios The martyrdom of St. Polycarp 1855, and Hagar 1873; bequeathed his musical library of about 5,000 vols. to the college of St. Michael, Tenbury, which he built and partially endowed, the church was consecrated and the college opened 29 Sept. 1856, when he became the first vicar and warden, he spent £64,000 on this college; edited E. Naumann’s The history of music 1882; author of A treatise on harmony, Oxford 1868, 2 ed. 1875; A treatise on counterpoint, canon, and fugue, based upon that of Cherubini, Oxford 1869, 2 ed. 1880; A treatise on musical form and general composition, Oxford, 1875; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music. d. suddenly in the Birmingham, Dudley and district bank, Hereford 6 April 1889. bur. St. Michael’s, Tenbury. F. T. Havergal’s Memorials of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1889) portrait; J. S. Bumpus’s Compositions of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1892); Church portrait journal, n.s. ii 17 (1881) portrait.

OUSELEY, Joseph Walker Jasper. b. 1799; attached to the college of Fort William, Calcutta 1821; assistant professor of Sanscrit, Mahratta and Bengali 1824; professor of Arabic and Persian 1825, secretary of the college 1833–8; superintendent of the Mysore princes 1838–44; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury, England 1844–57; an examiner in oriental languages for civil service commissioners 1862–83; colonel Bengal retired list 28 Nov. 1854. d. 10 Inverness terrace, London 29 Oct. 1889. Times 1 Nov. 1889 p. 5, 9 Nov. p. 6.

OUSELEY, Thomas John. Published and edited the Manx Punch several months; author of Poems, Douglas 1869. d. May 1874.

OUSELEY, Sir William Gore (eld. son of sir Wm. Ouseley, orientalist 1767–1842). b. London 26 July 1797; attached to British embassy at Stockholm Nov. 1817; attaché at Washington Nov. 1825; secretary of legation at Rio de Janiero June 1832; chargè d’affaires in Brazil 20 April 1838; minister to the Argentine confederation 13 Dec. 1844; went on a special mission to Monte Video Jany. 1847; secured the evacuation of Uruguay by the Argentine troops and the withdrawal of their fleet from Monte Video; sent on a special mission to Central America 30 Oct. 1857; returned to England 1860, retired on a pension of £1,000; K.C.B. 29 June 1852, D.C.L. Oxford 20 June 1855; author of Remarks on the statistics and political institutions of the United States 1832; Notes on the slave trade 1850; A description of views in South America from original drawings made in Brazil, the river Plate, the Parana, &c. 1852. d. 31 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 6 March 1866. G.M. i 588–9 (1866); I.L.N. xxxi 460 (1857) portrait.

OUTRAM, Sir Benjamin Fonseca (son of captain Wm. Outram). b. Kilham, Yorkshire 1774; educ. United Borough hospitals, London; entered naval medical service 1794, surgeon 1796; surgeon in the Superb in the action off Cadiz 12 July 1801; surgeon to the Royal Sovereign yacht several years; studied at univ. of Edinb. 1806–9, M.D. 24 June 1809; L.C.P. London 16 April 1810, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1852; a physician at Hanover sq. London 1810–50; physician to the Welbeck st. dispensary; F.R.S. 3 May 1838; F.R.G.S.; medical inspector of fleets and hospitals 1841; K.C.B. 17 Sept. 1850; author of De feber continuâ, Edinburgh 1809; Suggestions to naval surgeons, previous to, during, and after a battle. d. Brighton 16 Feb. 1856. bur. at Clifton. Munk’s College of physicians iii 90 (1878); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xiii 66–8 (1857).

OUTRAM, George (2 son of Joseph Outram 1732–1810, manager of the Clyde ironworks, near Glasgow). b. the Clyde ironworks 25 March 1805; educ. Leith high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1827; edited the Glasgow Herald May 1837 to death; member of the Edinburgh angling club; author of Legal lyrics and metrical illustrations of the Scotch forms of process 1851, 2 ed. 1874, new ed. by J. H. Stoddart 1887; privately printed a collection of legal anecdotes; assisted John Wilson in his Dies Boreales, a series of articles contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1836–46. d. Rosemore on the Holy Loch 15 Sept. 1856. bur. Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. George Outram’s Lyrics (1888), memoir pp. 1–26 portrait.

OUTRAM, Sir James, 1 Baronet (2 son of Benjamin Outram, civil engineer 1764–1805). b. Butterley hall, Derbyshire 29 Jany. 1803; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen 1818–19; ensign 4 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1819; lieut. 1 grenadier N.I. 4 Aug. 1819; lieut. 23 Bombay N.I. 1824, major 1848–53; raised and commanded a corps of Bhils 1825; conducted an expedition into disturbed districts, lying between Kabul and Kandahar 1839; political agent in Lower Sind Dec. 1839, and in Upper Sind 18 Aug. 1841 to 1842; called by sir Charles James Napier 5 Nov. 1842 the Bayard of India; defended the British residency at Haidarabad against 8,000 Baluchis Feb. 1843; presented with a sword and piece of plate at Bombay April 1843; resident at Sattara 26 May 1845, at Baroda May 1847 to 1852; lieut. col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 1854–5; resident at Baroda again 19 March 1854; political agent and commandant at Aden June 1854; resident at Lucknow Nov. 1854; Oudh was annexed Feb. 1856 after his report on that country had been made; commanded the army during the Persian war Nov. 1856, defeated the Persians at Khush-áb 8 Feb. 1857; commanded Dinapore and Cawnpore divisions of the Bengal army during the mutiny from 8 Aug. 1857; chief comr. of Oudh 5 Aug. 1857 to 4 April 1858; besieged in Lucknow Sept. to Nov. 1857; captured Lucknow 19 March 1858; military member of the governor-general’s council 16 April 1858 to July 1860; created baronet 9 Oct. 1858; voted an annuity of £1,000 by house of commons; presented with a silver shield by his friends in Bombay June 1858, which is on loan at South Kensington Museum; L.G. 16 July 1858; presented with freedom of city of London 20 Dec. 1860; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 30 July 1857; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. June 1862; author of Rough notes of the campaigns in Sinde and Afghanistan in 1838–9, 1840; The conquest of Scinde 1846; Baroda intrigues and Bombay Kutput 1853; A few brief memoranda of the public services rendered by lieut. colonel Outram 1853; Lieutenant general Sir James Outram’s Persian campaign in 1857–8, 1860. d. Pau 11 March 1863. bur. Westminster abbey 25 March, bust by Matthew Noble, R.A. over the doorway on south side of the nave. Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s James Outram, a biography, 2 vols. (1880) portrait; J. Chapman’s Baroda and Bombay, in relation to removal of lieut. col. Outram from office of resident at Gaekwar 1853; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii 109–72 (1880); E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India ii 635 (1860) portrait; Golden Hours (1869) 599–610 portrait; J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 17–20 portrait.

Note. There is an equestrian statue of him by Foley in the Maidan of Calcutta, another by Noble on the Thames embankment, London, erected Nov. 1871, Illust. Times 2 Dec. 1871 p. 345 view of his monument in Westminster abbey, uncovered 29 May 1866.

OUVRY, Frederic (3 son of Peter Aimé Ouvry of the Ordnance office). b. 6 Abingdon st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1814; partner in firm of Robinson, King, and Ouvry, solicitors 13 Tokenhouse yard 1837; partner with his brothers-in-law F. W. and W. J. Farrer 66 Lincolns Inn Fields 1855 to death; member of Incorporated law society 12 March 1838, member of council 21 July 1861 to death, vice-president 1870–1, president 1871–2; solicitor to regiment of Scots Guards 9 Nov. 1858 to death; member of Weavers’ company; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1848, member of council 1850–78; treasurer 1854–74, vice-president 1874, president 4 Jany. 1876 to 1878; is depicted by Charles Dickens in a paper in Household Words as Mr. Undery; printed The Cobler of Canterburie 1862; T. Eulenspiegel’s Howleglas 1867; G. Markham’s The famous whore 1868; T. Cranley’s Amanda 1869, and other facsimiles of rare publications; his library, including the first four folios of Shakespeare, was sold for £6,169 at Sotheby’s 30 March to 5 April 1882. d. 12 Queen Anne st. London 26 June 1881. bur. at Acton, bust by Marshall Wood at Society of Antiquaries. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series, ix 7 114–7 (1881–3).

OVANS, Charles. b. about 1793; entered Bombay army 1808; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1809; lieut. European regiment 6 July 1811, captain 17 Dec. 1821; major of right wing of the regiment 8 Feb. 1829 to 10 Nov. 1835; quarter master general Bombay 1835–8; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 1837–8, and of 4 N.I. 1838 to 1845; commander and political agent at Sattara 22 June 1837 to 26 Feb. 1845, where he was the chief agent in dethroning the Raja 1845, and was impeached before the court of directors of H.E.I.C. in London on 24 Sept. 1845, but the motion was negatived; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 1845 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel of 19 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1856, and of 14 N.I. 1856 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; author of An account of the settlements made with the Naiks and Bheels of the districts comprising the Kumir agency 1830. d. Gloucester sq. London 19 July 1858. Case of Krushnajee Sudasew Bhider, the accuser of lieut. col. Ovans, of bribery 1845; Debate at India house on case of deposed rajah of Sattara and impeachment of col. C. Ovans 1845.

OVENS, Edward (son of Hugh Ovens of St. Catherine’s, Fermanagh). b. 1817; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; chairman of Salford hundred quarter sessions 31 May 1858 to 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 8 (Manchester) 6 May 1862 to death. d. Enville house, Bowdon 19 Feb. 1869. Law Times xlvi 418 (1869).

OVERALL, William Henry (son of Wm. Henry Overall). b. St. John’s Wood, London 18 Jany. 1829; educ. City of London college; employed in the town clerk’s office at the Guildhall, London 1847–57; sub-librarian of the corporation library 1847, librarian 23 March 1865 to death; removed the collections to the new building in Basinghall st. and arranged the museum; F.S.A. 11 June 1868; member of council of the Library Association 1879, and of the London and Middlesex archæological society; presented with freedom and livery of Clockmakers’ co. 1877; author of Catalogue of Sculpture, paintings and other works of art belonging to the corporation of the City of London, 2 vols. 1867–8; Some account of the ward of Vintry and the Vintners company 1869; The dictionary of chronology or historical and statistical register 1870; Catalogue of books, pictures, etc. presented by Mrs. Letitia Hollier to, and also of books and music in the library of Gresham college 1872; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, clocks, watches, paintings and prints in the library and museum of the company of Clockmakers 1875; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters, etc. belonging to the Dutch church, Austin Friars, London 1879; edited The accounts of the churchwardens of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill from 1456 to 1608, 1871; Civitas Londinum, a survey of the cities of London and Westminster, published in facsimile with a biographical account of Ralph Agas 1874. d. Crouch End, Middlesex 28 June 1888. bur. St. Pancras cemetery, Finchley 3 July. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii 391 (1887–9).

OVEREND, William (youngest son of Hall Overend of Sheffield). b. 1809; educ. Sheffield gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, bencher 2 Nov. 1855 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1855; contested Sheffield 7 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Pontefract 29 April 1859, resigned Jany. 1860; contested East Derbyshire 23 Nov. 1868; chief comr. to assess damage by bursting of the Bradfield reservoir 11 March 1864, which resulted in the loss of 250 lives and property valued at nearly half-a-million; chief comr. to inquire into Sheffield trade outrages, commission sat at Sheffield 3 June to 8 July 1867; retired from practice about 1872. d. East Retford, Notts. 24 Dec. 1884. Law Times 3 Jany. 1885 p. 177.

OVERSTONE, Samuel Jones Loyd, 1 Baron (only child of Lewis Loyd of London, banker 1768–1858). b. 43 Lothbury, London 25 Sept. 1796; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; a banker in Manchester 1844 to 23 Dec. 1848; M.P. Hythe 1819–26; contested Manchester 15 Dec. 1832; the last survivor of those who held seats in the house of commons in the reign of George III; sheriff of Warwickshire 1838; presided over a great liberal meeting at the London tavern 15 June 1841; head of Jones Loyd and co. bankers, London 1844, afterwards merged in London and Westminster bank 1864; chairman of the Irish famine committee of 1847; member of senate of univ. of London July 1850 to 1877; a great authority on finance, the Bank act of 1844 was chiefly based on his principles; cr. baron Overstone of Overstone and of Fotheringay, Northamptonshire 5 March 1850; author of Reflections on the causes and consequences of the pressure on the money market 1837; Further reflections on the currency and the action of the Bank of England 1837; A letter on the management of the Bank of England 1840; Remarks on the management of the circulation of the Bank of England and of the country issues 1840; Thoughts on the separation of the departments of the Bank of England 1844; Tracts and publications on metallic and paper currency 1858. d. 2 Carlton gardens, London 17 Nov. 1883. bur. Lockinge, Berks. 23 Nov.; will proved under £2,100,000 Dec. 1883. Times 19 Nov. 1883 p. 8, cols. 1, 3, p. 9, col. 3; Graphic xxviii 560 (1883) portrait; W. J. Lawson’s History of banking (2 ed. 1855) 232–34; I.L.N. lxxxiii 525 (1883) portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 130–47; Manchester Guardian 20 Nov. 1883 p. 8.

OVERTON, Charles (6 son of John Overton 1763–1838, rector of St. Margaret’s and St. Crux, York). b. York 1805; assistant curate of Ch. Ch. Harrogate 1829; C. of Ronaldkirk, Yorkshire 1829–37; V. of Clapham, Yorkshire 1837–41; V. of Cottingham, near Hull 1841 to death; author of Cottage lectures, or the Pilgrim’s progress practically explained, 2 parts 1847–9; Cottage lectures, or the Lord’s Prayer practically explained 1848; The expository preacher, or St. Matthew’s gospel expounded, 2 vols. 1850; Ecclesia Anglicana 1853; The history of Cottingham 1861; The life of Joseph in twenty three lectures 1866. d. Cottingham 31 March 1889. Memoir of rev. Charles Overton (1889).

OVERWEG, Adolf. b. Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. d. of fever near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. Notice of recent discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg. By J. Hogg 1852; Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 130 (1851), xxii 133 (1852), xxiii p. cx (1853), xxvi pp. clxi, clxii (1857); Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv 19–24 (1887).

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