Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 11)

NORFOLK, Henry Charles Fitzalan Howard, 13 Duke of (only child of 12 duke of Norfolk 1765–1842). b. George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Aug. 1791; styled earl of Surrey 1815–42; M.P. Horsham 1829–32, the first Roman catholic to take the oath and his seat; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41; treasurer of the household 1837–41; P.C. 19 July 1837; captain of yeomen of the guard 5 July to 8 Sept. 1841; summoned to house of lords as baron Maltravers 11 Aug. 1841; succeeded as 13 duke 16 March 1842; earl marshall of England 16 March 1842; took the name of Fitzalan before Howard by R.L. 26 April 1842; master of the horse 1846–52; K.G. 4 May 1848; lord steward of the household 1853–4; president of royal botanical society; after the papal aggression in 1850 he abjured Romanism and conformed to the church of England, but was reconciled to R.C. religion on his death bed by canon Tierney, which fact is mentioned on his coffin plate. d. Arundel castle, Sussex 18 Feb. 1856. bur. in chapel attached to Arundel parish church 26 Feb. G.M. xlv 419 (1856); Burke’s Portrait gallery i 141 (1833) portrait of Charlotte, duchess of Norfolk, d. 1870; Doyle’s Baronage ii 603 (1886) portrait.

NORFOLK, Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14 Duke of (1 son of preceding). b. Great Stanhope st. London 7 Nov. 1815; styled lord Fitz-Alan 1815–42; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet royal horse guards 9 Jany. 1835, retired as captain; M.P. Arundel 1837–51; formally joined R.C. church in Paris 1842; styled earl of Arundel and Surrey 1842–56; M.P. Limerick 1851–2; succeeded as 14 Duke 18 Feb. 1856; declined the Garter when offered to him by lord Palmerston 1856; earl marshall of England 18 Feb. 1856; edited Lives of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his wife 1857, 2 ed. 1861; author of A few remarks on the condition of British catholics 1847; Letter on the bull In Cœna Domini 1848; Observations on diplomatic relations with Rome 1848. d. Arundel castle, Sussex 25 Nov. 1860. bur. in Fitzalan chapel, Arundel 6 Dec. G.M. x 98 (1861); I.L.N. xviii 77 (1851) portrait, xxxvii 539, 544 (1860) portrait.

NORGATE, Thomas Starling (son of Elias Norgate, surgeon). b. Norwich 20 Aug. 1772; educ. Norwich gr. sch. 1780–8, and New college, Hackney; student at Lincoln’s inn; wrote for the Analytical review till it ceased 1799; wrote the half-yearly retrospect of domestic literature in the Monthly magazine 1797–1807; wrote nearly a seventh part of Arthur Aikin’s Annual review 1802–8; wrote for the Monthly review; helped to found the Norfolk and Norwich horticultural society 1829; edited the East Anglian, a weekly newspaper published at Norwich 1830–3; edited sir W. Jones’ The principles of government 1797; author of Essays, tales and poems, Norwich 1795. d. Hethersett, Norfolk 7 July 1859.

NORGATE, Thomas Starling (4 son of the preceding). b. 30 Dec. 1807; educ. Norwich gr. sch. and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; C. of Briningham 1832, C. of Clay-next-the-Sea, and C. of Banningham, all in Norfolk; R. of Sparham, Norfolk 21 April 1840 to death; author of Batrachomyomachia, an Homeric fable reproduced in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Odyssey in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Iliad in dramatic blank verse 1864. d. Sparham 25 Nov. 1893.

NORMAN, Alexander (3 son of Luke Norman of Dublin). b. 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 26 May 1858; had a large equity practice; resided 26 Rutland square, Dublin; while on a visit d. of heart disease by the roadside at Lynton 14 Sept. 1870. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 22 Sept. The North Devon Journal 22 Sept. 1870 p. 6, 29 Sept. p. 5; Law Journal v 547–48 (1870).

NORMAN, George (eld. son of James Norman, surgeon at Bath). b. 2 Sept. 1782; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843; V.P. British medical assoc.; surgeon to the Casualty hospital, Bath 1817–26; first surgeon of Bath united hospital 1826–57, his bust placed in the hospital 1858; presented with a testimonial from the working men of Bath; sent papers to the Medico-chirurgical transactions; for many years he made £4,000 per annum. d. 1 Circus, Bath 17 Jany. 1861, memorial window placed in Abbey church, Bath Dec. 1862. Lancet i 127 1861.

NORMAN, George Warde (son of George Norman 1756–1830, sheriff of Kent 1793). b. Bromley common, Kent 20 Sept. 1793; educ. Eton 1805–10; in business with his father as merchants in the Norway timber trade 1810, carried on the business alone 1824–30, when he transferred it to Sewell & Co.; a director of Bank of England 1821–72; examined before parliamentary committees on currency 1832, 1840, and 1848; an exchequer bill comr. 1831, a public works loan comr. 1842–76; the last surviving original member of the Political economy club, founded 1821; a director of the Sun Insurance office 1830–64; great friend of George Grote, who wrote the History of Greece at his suggestion; author of Remarks upon some prevailing errors with respect to currency and banking 1833, republished 1838; Letter to Charles Wood, esq. on money and the means of economising the use of it 1841; An examination of some prevailing opinions as to the pressure of taxation in this and other countries 1850, 4 ed. 1864; Papers on various subjects 1869; A memoir on the life of the rev. F. Beadon 1879. d. 90 Common, Bromley, Kent 4 Sept. 1882. Economist 9 Sept. 1882 p. 1125, 30 Sept. pp. 1209–11.

NORMAN, John Paxton (eld. son of John Norman of Claverham house, Gatton, Somerset 1777–1837). b. Congresbury, Somerset 21 Oct. 1819; educ. Exeter gram. sch. and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; practised as a special pleader; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; one of judges of high court of Bengal May 1861 to death; filled office of chief justice temporarily 1864 and 1871; author of The law and practice of copyright 1851; A treatise on letters patent for inventions 1853; with E. T. Hurlstone Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 1856–62, 7 vols. 1857–62; stabbed by an assassin on the steps of his court at Calcutta 20 Sept. 1871. d. in a house near the court at 1 a.m. 21 Sept. Graphic iv 375, 381 (1871) portrait; I.L.N. lix 333, 334, 618 (1871) portrait.

NORMANBY, Constantine Henry Phipps, 1 Marquess of (1 child of H. Phipps, 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 15 May 1797; styled viscount Normanby 1812–31; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1818; M.P. Scarborough 1818–20; M.P. Higham Ferrers, Northants 1822–6; M.P. Malton, Yorkshire 1826–30; succeeded as 2 earl Mulgrave 7 April 1831; governor of Jamaica 1832–4; P.C. 30 May 1832; G.C.H. 1832; lord keeper of the privy seal 30 July to 30 Nov. 1834; lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9, sworn in 11 May 1835; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1835–9; cr. marquess of Normanby, co. York 25 June 1838; sec. of state for colonial department 20 Feb. to 20 Aug. 1839, and for home department 30 Aug. 1839 to 6 Sept. 1841; ambassador to Paris 1846–52; G.C.B. 10 Dec. 1847; K.G. 19 Feb. 1851; envoy to Florence 1854–8; author of Matilda, a tale of the day, 2 vols. 1825; Yes and no, a novel, 2 vols. 1827; The English in France 1828; The contrast, a novel 3 vols. 1832; A year of revolution from a journal kept in Paris in 1848, 2 vols. 1857; The congress and the cabinet 1859, 4 ed. 1860; An historical sketch of Louise de Bourbon, duchess regent of Parma 1861; A vindication of the duke of Modena from the charges of Mr. Gladstone 1861, 2 ed. 1861. d. 9 Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London 28 July 1863. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 331–3 portrait; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 153–9; St. Stephens, By Mask (1839) 164–72; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery v (1834) portrait; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 124 portrait; Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii 92 (1846) portrait; I.L.N. iv 101 (1844) portrait; J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage ii 607 (1884) portrait.

NORMANBY, George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2 Marquess of (only son of the preceding). b. 23 July 1819; styled viscount Normanby 1831–8, and earl of Mulgrave 1838–63; ensign Scots fusilier guards 9 Nov. 1838, sold out 29 Sept. 1843; major North York regt. of militia 1846–53; M.P. Scarborough 1847–51; contested Scarborough 19 July 1851; M.P. Scarborough 1852–7; comptroller of the household 23 July 1851 to 27 Feb. 1852, and treasurer 4 Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 7 Aug. 1851; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia Jany. 1858 to May 1866; second marquess of Normanby 28 July 1863; hon. col. Tower hamlets rifle volunteers 23 Dec. 1863; lord in waiting to the queen 8 May to 6 July 1866, and 17 Dec. 1868 to 17 Dec. 1869; high steward of Hull; capt. of hon. corps of gentlemen at arms 17 Dec. 1869 to Jany. 1871; governor and commander in chief of Queensland 8 April 1871 to 1874, of New Zealand 5 Sept. 1874 to 1878, and of Victoria 24 Feb. 1879 to April 1884; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874, G.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; G.C.B. 9 Jany. 1885. d. 6 Brunswick ter. Brighton 3 April 1890. bur. Lythe church, Whitby 10 April. Athenæum ii 504–6 (1877); W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 261 portrait; C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield i 306 (1852) portrait; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533 portrait; I.L.N. xxxii 200 (1858) portrait, xlviii 144 (1866) portrait; Governor Normanby’s visit to Gympie, with account of the Gympie gold fields, Gympie (1873); The visit of his excellency the governor of the North. Auckland (1876).

NORMANDY, Alphonse René le Mire de. b. Rouen, France 23 Oct. 1809; educ. for the medical profession; studied chemistry in Germany under Gmelin; patented indelible inks and dies 1839; patented a method of hardening soap made from soft goods by the addition of sulphate of soda 1841; patented in 1851 an apparatus for distilling sea-water to obtain pure water for drinking, this is largely used on board ships, the manufacture of these stills is carried on by Normandy’s Patent marine ærated fresh water company near the Victoria docks, London; a consulting and analytical chemist some years; F.C.S. 20 May 1854; resided in England about 1843 to death; author of A guide to the alkali metrical chest 1849; Handbook of chemical analysis 1850, 2 ed. 1875; The chemical atlas 1855; The dictionaries of the chemical atlas 1857. d. Odin lodge, Clapham park, London 10 May 1864. G.M. i 813 (1864), ii 120 (1864); I.L.N. xlv 105, 106 (1864) portrait.

NORMANTON, Welbore Ellis Agar, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 earl of Normanton 1736–1809, who was archbishop of Dublin). b. 12 Nov. 1778; styled viscount Somerton to 1809; succeeded 14 July 1809; built a fine gallery at Somerley, near Ringwood, Hants 1854, for his collection of Italian, Spanish, French, and English paintings, gallery especially rich in sir Joshua Reynolds’ pictures. d. 3 Seamore place, London 26 Aug. 1868, personalty sworn under £700,000, 31 Oct. 1868. Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 363–73; Register and Mag. of Biography Feb. 1869 p. 164; Times 27 Aug. 1868 p. 7.

NORRIS, Charles (younger son of John Norris of Marylebone, merchant). b. 24 Aug. 1779; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1797; cornet 13 dragoons 21 Feb. 1799, sold out 1800; resided at Tenby 1810 to death; published three numbers of The architectural antiquities of Wales, vol. 1, Pembrokeshire 1810, the 3 numbers were re-issued in one vol. 1811 under title of St. Davids, in a series of engravings illustrating the different ecclesiastical edifices of that ancient city; Etchings of Tenby 1812, containing 40 engravings drawn and etched by himself; author of An historical account of Tenby and its vicinity 1818, 2 ed. 1856. d. Tenby 16 Oct. 1858.

NORRIS, Edwin. b. Taunton 24 Oct. 1795; tutor to an English family in France and Italy; clerk in office of East India Co. London 1825–36; assistant secretary of Royal Asiatic society 1836, secretary 1859, hon. secretary and librarian 1861 to death, edited the Society’s Journal many years; translator in Foreign office 29 May 1847, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1866; an Assyriologist and one of the earliest decipherers of cuneiform inscriptions, deciphered the rock inscription of King Asoka near Kapur di Giri 1845; hon. Ph.D. Bonn for his discoveries in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions 1855; author of Outlines of a vocabulary of a few of the principal languages of western and central Africa 1841; A specimen of the Van language of West Africa 1851; The ancient Cornish drama, 2 vols. Oxford 1859; Assyrian dictionary, parts i–iii 1868–72; conducted The ethnographical library, 2 vols. 1853–4. d. 6 Michael’s Grove, Brompton, London 10 Dec. 1872, a bust of him placed in Shire hall, Taunton July 1876. Numismatic Chronicle xiv 19–24 (1874).

NORRIS, James (son of rev. Wm. Norris of Warblington, Hants.). b. Warblington 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1843; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815, fellow 10 Oct. 1822–43, bursar 1830, president 16 Sept. 1843 to death; the college purchased the Lee Grange estate in Bucks. for £57,500 June 1869. d. 16 April 1872. bur. in college cloisters, where is memorial tablet. T. Fowler’s History of Corpus Christi college (1893) 75, 304, 318–9, 326.

NORRIS, John Pilkington (son of Thomas Norris, physician). b. Chester 10 June 1823; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1848; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1881; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1849; an inspector of schools in Staffs., Shropshire, and Cheshire 6 Oct. 1849 to 1863, and in Kent and Surrey 1863–4; C. of Lewknor, Oxfordshire 1864; canon of Bristol 14 July 1865 to death; P.C. of Hatchford, Surrey 1864–70; V. of St. George, Brandon Hill, Bristol 1870; rural dean of Bristol 1876; V. of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol 1877–8; archdeacon of Bristol Aug. 1881 to death; examining chaplain to bishop Fraser of Manchester 1870–85; inspector of church training colleges 1871–6; appointed dean of Chichester 25 Dec. 1891, but died 4 days later; author of Translation of Demosthenes, De Corona 1849; The education of the people 1869; A key to the Gospels 1869; Manual of religious instruction, 3 vols. 1874; A key to the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles 1871, 3 ed. 1884; The new testament with introduction and notes 1880; Some account of the church of St. Mary Redcliffe 1882; A key to the epistles of St. Paul 1890. d. 7 Great George st. Bristol 29 Dec. 1891. bur. in the graveyard adjoining Bristol cathedral. The Biograph vi 64–6 (1881); I.L.N. 9 Jany. 1892 p. 38 portrait.

Note.—The inauguration of the building of the nave of Bristol cathedral was due to him, he also set on foot the scheme for the revival of the bishopric of Bristol and obtained the act of parliament legalizing it, he raised more than £113,000 for the cathedral, see and spiritual wants of the city of Bristol.

NORRIS, John Thomas (youngest son of Edmund Norris of Sutton Courtney). b. 1808; contested Abingdon 13 Dec. 1854 and 13 July 1865; M.P. Abingdon 1857–65. d. Sutton Courtney, Abingdon, Berks. 15 Jany. 1870. I.L.N. xxxiii 92, 94 (1858) portrait, lvi 131 (1870).

NORRIS, Sir William (4 son of Wm. Norris of Old Jewry, London). b. 7 Nov. 1793; barrister M.T. 29 June 1827; practised in India 1829; a puisne judge at Ceylon, chief justice there 1 Oct. 1835 to 7 March 1836; knighted at Whitehall 7 Nov. 1835; recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca 7 March 1836 to March 1847. d. Ashurst lodge, near Sunningdale, Berks. 7 Sept. 1859. bur. Sunninghill churchyard.

NORTH, Brownlow (only son of Charles Augustus North 1785–1825, rector of Alverstoke, Hants.). b. Winchester house, Chelsea, 6 Jany. 1810; appointed registrar of diocese of Winchester 1817 in reversion upon the death of his father; educ. Eton 1819–25; sent to Corfu 1825; travelled with a tutor in France and Italy; served in Don Pedro’s army at Oporto 1832–3; matric. from Magd. coll. Oxf. 21 March 1839, B.A. 1842; conducted evangelical meetings in Scotland from 1855; formally recognised as an evangelist by the Free church of Scotland 1859; took part in revivalist meetings in Ulster 1859; preached in London 20 Dec. 1859 to May 1860; sometimes gave discourses in drawing rooms; author of Ourselves, a picture selected from the history of the children of Israel 1865, 10 ed. 1888; Yes or no, Genesis xxiv 1–58, 1867, 3 ed. 1871; The rich man and Lazarus 1869; The prodigal son, or the way home 1871. d. Tullichewan castle, Dumbartonshire, the residence of Mr. James Campbell 9 Nov. 1875. bur. Dean cemet. Edinb. B. North, Records and Recollections. By K. Moody-Stuart (1878) portrait; J. Baillie’s B. North, esq. (1876).

NORTH, Charles Napier (eld. son of Roger North, captain 71 foot, d. 1822). b. 12 Jany. 1817; ensign 6 foot 20 May 1836, lieut. 28 Dec. 1838; served against the Arabs at Aden 1840–1; 1 lieut. 60 rifles 7 Jany. 1842, major 19 June 1857; served in Punjab war 1849; deputy judge advocate of Havelock’s column in the Indian mutiny from 21 July 1857 until the arrival of sir Colin Campbell’s force at Lucknow; invalided home Jany. 1858; colonel in the army 30 March 1865, sold out 26 Oct. 1868; author of Journal of an English officer in India 1858. d. Bray, co. Wicklow 20 Aug. 1869. bur. in cemetery at Aldershot.

NORTH, Frederick (eld. son of Frederick F. North). b. Hastings 2 July 1800; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; a student of the Inner Temple; M.P. Hastings 1831–7, 1854–65, and 1868 to death. d. Hastings 29 Oct. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 266 (1869).

NORTH, Isaac William (son of rev. Henry North, assistant minister of Welbeck chapel, London, who d. 16 April 1838). b. St. Marylebone, London 28 July 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of Fulham, Middlesex; chaplain of the Isles of Scilly 1841–51; V. of Holy Trinity, Greenwich 1851 to death; author of Sermons on the liturgy 1844; A sermon preached at the visitation of the archdeacon of Cornwall 1849; A week in the Isles of Scilly 1850, revised and rewritten by L. H. Courtney 1867; Sermons preached in Trinity church, Greenwich 1854. d. Lyndhurst, Hampshire 12 Aug. 1881. Guardian xxxvi 1156 (1881).

NORTH, John (son of Benjamin North of Woodstock). b. 1790; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Oxfordshire militia; had charge of recruits and French prisoners at Bristol to 1814; practised in London, chiefly in midwifery and diseases of women and children; lecturer on these subjects at Westminster hospital and then at Middlesex hospital from 1838; with R. Macleod edited The Medical and physical journal 1829–30; author of Practical observations on the convulsions of infants 1826. d. 9a Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 March 1873. Lancet 29 March 1873 p. 465.

NORTH, John. b. 1852; conductor of Huddersfield choral soc., of the Glee and madrigal soc., and of the Philharmonic soc. to death; choirmaster Huddersfield parish church to death. d. Spring-bank, Fartown, Huddersfield 12 Oct. 1891.

NORTH, John Sidney (2 son of lieut. general sir Charles William Doyle, G.C.H. 1770–1842). b. Alnwick 28 May 1804; educ. Sandhurst; ensign 11 foot 1 Feb. 1821; capt. 87 foot 22 Nov. 1827, placed on h.p. 17 April 1835, sold out 1837; cr. D.C.L. Oxford univ. 12 June 1839; lieut. col. 2 Tower Hamlets militia 1836; lieut. col. Oxfordshire rifle volunteers 1 May 1860, hon. col. 26 March 1873 to death; by R.L. took name of North instead of Doyle 20 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1845; M.P. Oxfordshire 1852–85; voted in the minority of 53 who censured free trade Nov. 1852; P.C. 3 April 1886; m. 18 Nov. 1835 Susan North, 2 dau. of 3 earl of Guildford, she was b. Waldershare, near Dover 6 Feb. 1797, became baroness North by termination of the abeyance 10 Sept. 1841, and d. Putney Hill, Surrey 5 March 1884, bur. Wroxton church, near Banbury 11 March; he d. 11 Oct. 1894. Graphic 20 Oct. 1894 p. 454 portrait; Times 12 Oct. 1894 p. 5.

NORTH, Marianne (eld. dau. of Frederick North of Rougham, Norfolk, M.P. for Hastings). b. Hastings 24 Oct. 1830; resided abroad 1847–50; travelled with her father in Syria and Egypt 1865; painted flowers in Canada, U.S. of America, Jamaica and Brazil July 1871 to Sept. 1873; visited Teneriffe 1875; travelled round the world Aug. 1875 to March 1877, and in India 1878–9; exhibited her drawings at a room in Conduit st. London, summer of 1879, after which she presented them to the Botanical gardens at Kew, where a gallery designed by James Fergusson was built for them and opened 9 July 1882; travelled in Borneo, Australia, and New Zealand 1880–2, in South Africa 1882–3; painted araucarias in Chili 1884–5; five species of flowers, four of which she first made known in Europe, have been named after her; resided at Alderley, Gloucs. 1886 to death. d. Mount house, Alderley 30 Aug. 1890. bur. Alderley, bust by Conrad Dressler placed in inner room of the North gallery, Kew March 1894. Recollections of a happy life, the autobiography of M. North, edited by her sister Mrs. J. A. Symonds, 2 vols. (1892) 2 portraits; I.L.N. lxxx 616 (1882) portrait and 13 Sept. 1890 p. 342 portrait.

NORTH, Thomas (son of Thomas North of Burton End, Melton Mowbray, Leics.) b. Melton Mowbray 24 Jany. 1830; clerk in Paget’s bank, Leicester about 1845–72; hon. secretary of Leicestershire architectural society and editor of its Transactions 1861 to death, to which he contributed more than 30 papers; F.S.A. 1875; author of Tradesmen’s tokens, Leicestershire 1857; A chronicle of the church of St. Martin in Leicester during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth 1866; The church bells of Leicestershire 1876, of Northamptonshire 1878, of Rutland 1880, of Lincoln 1882, of Bedfordshire 1883, and of Hertfordshire 1886, six volumes; English bells and bell lore 1888; The accounts of the churchwardens of St. Martin’s, Leicester 1489–1844, 1884. d. The Plas, Llanfairfechan, North Wales 27 Feb. 1884. Transactions of the Leicestershire architectural society vi 91–3 (1885); Church Bells 8 March 1884 p. 318.

NORTH, William. b. Nottingham 1807; a schoolmaster Nottingham, then inspector of corn returns; played in Nottingham v. Sheffield on the Forest ground, Nottingham 20–22 Aug. 1827; author of Nottingham cricket scores 1771–1829, 1830. d. 6 March 1855. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 32 (1862).

NORTH, William. b. 17 Oct. 1811; member of firm of Payne, Eddison, and Ford solicitors, Leeds 1849; engaged in carrying out the Leeds and North Midland railway; the first secretary of the Midland railway company 1844; founded firm of North and Sons, solicitors, Leeds 1858; legal adviser of the Yorkshire banking company from its formation to his death, a director to 1880; steward to earl of Mexborough for his five manors. d. Potternewton, near Leeds 24 July 1883. bur. Woodhouse cemetery, Leeds. Law Times 11 Aug. 1883 p. 285.

NORTH, William (2 son of George North of St. John’s, Brecon). b. 1808; educ. Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1830–5; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of St. John, Brecon 1833–40; professor of Latin in St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–62; R. of Llangoedmore, Cardiganshire 10 Dec. 1840 to death; archdeacon of Cardigan and prebendary of Llandyfriog in St. David’s cathedral 1860 to death; author of A charge to the clergy 1865. d. Treforgan, Cardigan 7 June 1893.

NORTHAMPTON, Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2 Marquess of (2 son of 1 Marquess of Northampton 1760–1828). b. Stoke park, Wiltshire 1 Jany. 1790; styled lord Compton 1796–1812; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810, LL.D. 1835; capt. central regt. Northamptonshire militia 10 Sept. 1810; styled earl Compton 1812–28; M.P. Northampton 1812–20; lived in Italy 1820–30; succeeded as 2 marquess 24 May 1828; recorder of Northampton 1828–32; F.R.S. 27 May 1830, president 30 Nov. 1838, resigned 30 Nov. 1849; F.S.A. 10 March 1836; F.G.S., president; president of British Association at Bristol 1836, and Swansea 1848; president of Royal soc. of literature 26 April 1849 to death; a trustee of the British museum 1849; D.C.L. of Oxford 24 June 1850; edited Irene, a poem by Margaret, marchioness of Northampton 1833; The Tribute, a collection of unpublished poems 1837; author of Observations on the motion of sir R. Heron, M.P. respecting vacating seats in parliament on the acceptance of office 1835. d. Castle Ashby, near Northampton 17 Jany. 1851. bur. Castle Ashby 25 Jany. P. F. Robinson’s Vitruvius Britannicus (1847) part 3 pp. 1–24; H. Drummond’s Noble British families i 12–6 (1846); G.M. xxxv 425–9 (1851); I.L.N. xviii 59, 60 (1851) portrait; Athenæum 25 Jany. 1851 pp. 110–11; Doyle’s Baronage ii 631 (1886) portrait; Times 18 Jany. 1851 p. 5, 22 Jany. p. 5.

NORTHBOURNE, Sir Walter Charles James, 1 Baron (son of John James, minister plenipotentiary to Holland, d. 4 June 1818). b. 3 June 1816; educ. Westminster school 1826–33, and Christ Church, Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; succeeded his grandfather as second baronet 8 Oct. 1829; by his marriage in 1841 came into the Ellison properties in Gateshead, Hebbern and the neighbourhood; M.P. Hull 1837–47; sheriff of Kent 1855; a commissioner on the constitution and working of the ecclesiastical courts 1880; a trustee of the national gallery; cr. baron Northbourne of Betteshanger, Kent 5 Nov. 1884. d. Betteshanger, near Sandwich 4 Feb. 1893. Daily Graphic 9 Feb. 1893 p. 8 portrait.

NORTHBROOK, Francis Thornhill Baring, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir Thomas Baring, 2 bart. 1790–1848). b. Calcutta 20 April 1796; educ. Winchester and Christ Church, Oxf., double first class and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; capt. North Hants. regt. of militia 1 July 1818; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; M.P. Portsmouth 1826–65; a lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; joint secretary to the treasury 6 June to 17 Nov. 1834, and 21 April 1835 to Aug. 1839; chancellor of the exchequer 26 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sept. 1841; P.C. 26 Aug. 1839; succeeded as 3 baronet 3 April 1848; first lord of the admiralty 18 Jany. 1849 to 27 Feb. 1852; F.R.S. 22 Sept. 1849; cr. baron Northbrook of Stratton, county of Southampton 4 Jany. 1866. d. of apoplexy Stratton park, near Winchester 6 Sept. 1866. bur. Michelde church, Hants. 13 Sept. G.M. ii 543–4 (1866).

NORTHCOTE, Stafford Henry, 1 Earl of Iddesleigh (eld. son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1830, M.P. Haytesbury 1826–30). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; educ. Eton 1831–6, rowed bow oar in the Eton eight 1835; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 3 March 1836, scholar 1836–42, rowed in the college boat 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1863; private secretary to W. E. Gladstone, the vice-president of board of trade 30 June 1842 to 1845; legal assistant at board of trade Feb. 1845 to Aug. 1850; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; one of secretaries of Great Exhibition 3 Jany. 1850 to Oct. 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 March 1851; C.B. 17 Oct. 1851; G.C.B. 20 April 1880; a comr. for reorganising board of trade Dec. 1852 to March 1853; M.P. Dudley 1855–7; contested North Devon 6 April 1857; M.P. Stamford 1858–66; M.P. North Devon 1866–85; financial sec. to the treasury Jany. to June 1859; member of public schools commission 18 July 1862, and of endowed schools commission 20 Dec. 1865; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; secretary for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; chairman of Hudson’s Bay company Jany. 1869, governor March 1869 to March 1874; one of the six comrs. to arrange matters in dispute between Great Britain and the United States 13 Feb. 1871, the treaty of Washington was signed 8 May 1871; president of commission to inquire into working of friendly societies 14 Jany. 1871; chancellor of the exchequer 18 Feb. 1874 to April 1880; abolished the sugar duties of £2,000,000, 1874; applied an annual sinking fund of 28 millions to reduction of the national debt 1875; exempted incomes of £150 from income tax instead of £100 as before 1876; carried his Savings’ bank bill 1875, his Friendly societies’ bill 1875, and his Public works loan bill 1878; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1875; leader of the house of commons 8 Feb. 1877 to 24 March 1880; led the opposition April 1881 to June 1885; first lord of the treasury June 1885 to Feb. 1886; created viscount Saint Cyres of Newton Saint Cyres, Devon, and earl of Iddesleigh 3 July 1885; president of commission to inquire into depression of trade 29 Aug. 1885, the last report dated 21 Dec. 1886; presented by members of house of commons with a service of plate 8 March 1886; foreign secretary 27 July 1886 to 4 Jany. 1887; lord lieutenant of Devon 8 Jany. 1886 to death; lord rector of univ. of Edinb. 3 Nov. 1883 to death; author of The case of sir Eardley Wilmot 1847, 2 ed. 1847; A short review of the navigation laws of England. By A Barrister 1849, 2 ed. 1849; A statement connected with the election of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford in 1847, 1852, and 1853, 1853; Twenty years of financial policy 1862; The pleasures, the dangers, and the uses of desultory reading 1885; Lectures and essays 1887. d. in lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. bur. Upton Pyne, Devon 18 Jany., two statues by sir E. Boehm, R.A., one in house of commons vestibule, the other on Northernhay, Exeter; personalty sworn under £23,000 March 1887. A. Lang’s Life of sir S. Northcote 2 vols. (1890) 2 portraits; C. Worthy’s Life of earl of Iddesleigh (1887) portrait.

NORTHESK, George John Carnegie, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 earl of Northesk 1794–1878). b. Longwood, Hants. 1 Dec. 1843; styled lord Rosehill 1843–78; cornet 1 dragoons 10 June 1862; ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Nov. 1862, captain 26 March 1873, sold out 27 June 1874; succeeded as 9 earl 5 Dec. 1878; a representative peer for Scotland Feb. 1885; made a collection of flint prehistoric weapons, which he lent to the museum of science and arts Edinb., and to the city museum, Winchester; F.S.A. 30 Nov. 1871, vice-president. d. Longwood house, near Winchester 10 Sept. 1891. Proc. of Society of Antiquaries xiv 136 (1892).

NORTHEY, Francis Vernon (son of E. R. Northey of Epsom). b. 1836; educ. Eton, one of the cricket eleven 1852–4; ensign 60 foot 22 March 1855, instructor in musketry 3 Nov. 1858, major 5 July 1873 to death; commanded the third battalion in Zululand; mortally wounded at battle of Ginghilovo 2 April 1879, and d. 7 April 1879. I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879) portrait; Graphic xix 584 (1879) portrait.

NORTHMORE, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve house, near Exeter 1735–77). b. Cleve house 1766; educ. Tiverton and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; F.S.A. 19 May 1791; contested Exeter 20 June 1818, and Barnstaple 12 Dec. 1832; discovered the ossiferous nature of Kent’s cavern at Torquay about 1824; published Plutarch’s Treatise upon the distinction between a friend and flatterer 1793; Memoirs of Planetes, or a sketch of the laws and manners of Makar. By Philelentherus Devoniensis 1795; Washington, or liberty restored, a poem in ten books 1809, Baltimore 1809; Of education founded upon principles, Part the first, Time previous to the age of puberty 1800, no more published. d. Furzebrook House, near Axminster 20 or 29 May 1851. I.L.N. xviii 545 (1851).

NORTHROP, Flora (dau. of Mr. Macdonald). Principal of the Royal school for officers’ daughters at Castleton, Isle of Man; went to U.S. of America 1885 where she suffered great reverses. d. of starvation and of being frozen to death New York 31 Dec. 1893.

NORTHUMBERLAND, Algernon Percy, 4 Duke of (younger son of 2 duke of Northumberland 1742–1817). b. Northumberland house, Charing Cross, London 15 Dec. 1792; educ. Eton; entered R.N. March 1805; midshipman Sept. 1805, lieut. 1811; served in Mediterranean to 1810; while acting captain of the Caledonia fought in an action off Toulon 1814; captain 19 Aug. 1815, when put on h.p.; cr. baron Prudhoe of Prudhoe castle, Northumberland 27 Nov. 1816; LL.D. Camb. 6 July 1835; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; succeeded his brother as 4 duke 11 Feb. 1847; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; R.A. of the Blue 11 Nov. 1850, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 13 Oct. 1862; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; a trustee of the British museum 24 April 1861; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 27 Dec. 1864; F.R.S. 9 April 1818; F.S.A. 10 April 1823; president of Royal Institution; president of Royal united service institution; president of Royal national lifeboat institution, gave premiums for improved boats; introduced the Victoria Regia 1838, which first flowered in England in a tank built for it at Sion house, Isleworth; bought the famous Camuccini collection of 74 paintings at Rome 1856. d. Alnwick castle, Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865. bur. in chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey 25 Feb., personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 April 1865. Numismatic Chronicle v 20 (1865); G.M. xviii 504–11 (1865); I.L.N. xlvi 177, 190, 213, 217 (1865) portrait; G. J. Aungier’s History of Syon monastery (1840); Illust. Times 4 March 1865 pp. 129, 132, views of funeral, &c.; Waagen’s Galleries of art 1857, 265–69 and 465–74; O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 822.

NORTHUMBERLAND, George Percy, 5 Duke of (2 son of Algernon Percy, 1 earl of Beverley 1750–1830). b. Alnwick castle, Northumberland 22 June 1778; styled lord Louvain 1790–1830; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1799, LL.D. 1842; M.P. Beeralston 1799–1800; lieut. col. Northumberland regt. of militia 3 March 1804, col. 17 May 1804; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1804 to 10 Feb. 1806; commissioner for the affairs of India 6 April 1807 to 8 Sept. 1812; lord of the bed chamber to George IV 23 March 1826, and to William IV 24 July to Dec. 1830; succeeded as 2 earl of Beverley 21 Oct. 1830; captain of the yeomen of the guard 15 Jany. 1842 to 24 July 1846; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; succeeded his cousin as 5 duke of Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 29 April 1865. d. Alnwick castle 21 Aug. 1867. bur. beneath chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster abbey 30 Aug., personalty sworn under £350,000, 21 Sept. G.M. iv 532 (1867).

NORTHWICK, John Rushout, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Northwick 1739–1800). b. St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 16 Feb. 1770; educ. Hackney, London, and at Neufchatel; lived in Italy 1790–1800; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1800; a governor of Harrow school 1801 to death; the first man in Europe to receive the news of the victory of the Nile and that from Nelson himself at Palermo; F.S.A. 11 Dec. 1800; his celebrated gallery of pictures, 1881 in number, at Thirlestane, Cheltenham, was sold by auction for £95,725 26 July to 15 Aug. 1859; his cabinet of Greek coins and medals was sold by auction for £8,565, 5 Dec. to 17 Dec. 1859. d. Northwick park, near Morton in the Marsh 20 Jany. 1859. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii 195–212 (1854); A.R. (1859) 130–2, 181 and 466; Hours in the picture gallery at Thirlestane house (1843); Catalogue of the paintings the property of J. R. baron Northwick (1859).

NORTHWICK, George Rushout, 3 Baron (only son of hon. and rev. George Rushout, 1772–1842, rector of Burford, who took name of Bowles 20 June 1817). b. 30 Aug. 1811; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; cornet 1 life guards 18 Jany. 1833, captain 18 March 1842, placed on h.p. 4 June 1847; M.P. Evesham 1837–41; M.P. East Worcestershire 1847–59; lieut. col. Herefordshire militia 1853–62; chairman of Severn fishery board of conservators; succeeded his uncle as 3 baron 20 Jany. 1859. d. Upper Norwood 18 Nov. 1887. Times 21 Nov. 1887 p. 7.

NORTON, Bernard Gustavus. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March 1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death. d. Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 478 (1871).

NORTON, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (2 dau. of Thomas Sheridan, d. Cape of Good Hope 1817). b. 11 South Audley st. London 1808; resided with her mother in Hampton court palace 1817, then at Great George st. Westminster; m. (1) 30 July 1827 George Chapple Norton, he brought an action for crim. con. against lord Melbourne who was acquitted at the trial 23 June 1836; she obtained a separation 1840, he d. 24 Feb. 1876; she m. (2) 1 March 1877 sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 9 baronet, he d. 15 Jany. 1878; edited La belle assemblée, vols. 1–9, 1832 etc.; The English annual 1834; Fisher’s Drawing room scrap-book 1832 etc.; author of The dandies’ rout 1828, a satirical piece; The sorrows of Rosalie, a tale with other poems 1829; The undying one, and other poems 1830; A voice from the factories 1836, a poem; The dream and other poems 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The child of the islands 1845, a poem; Aunt Carry’s ballads for children 1847; Stuart of Dunleath, 3 vols. 1851; English laws for women in the nineteenth century 1854; Letter to the queen on lord chancellor Cranworth’s marriage and divorce bill 1855; Heimgegangen, in memory of H.R.H. the prince consort 1862; The lady of La Garaye 1862, 8 ed. 1875; Lost and saved, 3 vols. 1863, 5 ed. 1863; Old sir Douglas, 3 vols. 1867, new ed. 1871; edited The rose of Jericho, from the French 1869. d. 10 Upper Grosvenor st. London 15 June 1877, portrait by Mrs. Ferguson in Scottish National portrait gallery, she is depicted as Astrea the spirit of justice in Maclise’s fresco in the house of lords executed 1849; she is the heroine of George Meredith’s novel Diana of the Crossways, 3 vols. 1885. Songs, poems and verses by Helen, lady Dufferin (1894) p. 32 etc.; F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of Sheridan family (1873); P. Fitzgerald’s Lives of the Sheridans ii 352–448 (1886); C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers, second series (1893) 121–41 portrait; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 53–8 portrait, 355, 419, 457, 493; C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs iii 349–51 (1874); Graphic xv 624 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 595, 613 (1877) portrait; Temple Bar Feb. 1878 pp. 101–110; Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag. xxiv 49, 67 (1878); Traits of character by a contemporary ii 317–42 (1860); S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. 1855 p. 761 portrait; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers (1885) 101–3; Reynold’s Miscellany i 233 (1847) portrait.

NORTON, Daniel (1 son of William Norton of Uxbridge). b. 1806; timber merchant Wharf road, City road, London 1827; resided Northwood park, near Rickmansworth: first played cricket at lord Ebury’s seat, Moor park 1856; started the Northwood park club 1865, and played in all the matches; often engaged professionals to play for his team, paid Coleman to be his groundsman; in his other club at Wharf road he also played in the matches; owner of landed estates in Kent, Middlesex, Herts., and Hants. d. The Dell, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 10 Feb. 1888. Cricket 23 Feb. 1888 p. 30.

NORTON, Fleming, stage name of Frederic Mills (youngest son of Wm. Mills of Lindridge Worcs.) b. 1836 or 1837; gave an entertainment at Egyptian hall, Piccadilly, Mr. Fleming Norton’s musical and mimetic entertainment entitled Perkin’s picnic 1875; acted sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique theatre 20 Sept. 1879; the original capt. Flapper in Billee Taylor at Imperial theatre 30 Oct. 1880; a monologue entertainer and polyphonist; toured in Australia, New Zealand, the Straits Settlements, and India 1883–6; resided at 3 Olympia mansions, Kensington. d. 30 March 1895. bur. Highgate cemet. 3 April. Illust. sp. and dr. news xxv 583 (1886) portrait.

NORTON, George (son of John Norton of Shoreham, Sussex). b. 1791; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, Michel scholar 1815–6, M.A. 1810, fellow 1816–20; barrister I.T. 28 June 1816; appointed one of common pleaders of city of London; advocate general of Bombay 1825, of Madras 1827, retired 1854; first pres. of Madras univ.; author of Commentaries on the history, constitution, and chartered franchises of the city of London 1829, 3 ed. 1869; An exposition of the privileges of the city of London in regard to the claims of non-freemen to deal within its jurisdiction 1821; Rudimentals, a series of discourses on the principles of government, Madras 1841; Native education in India 1848; A new financial scheme for India 1857; Proselytism in India, with an account of the Tinnevelly slaughter 1859; Thought, its origin and operation 1876. d. Wyvols court, Swallowfield, near Reading 13 July 1876.

NORTON, George Chapple (2 son of Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland 1744–1820). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Winchester and Edinb. univ.; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825; a comr. of bankruptcy 1827–31; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth st. Whitechapel 19 April 1831, this court was closed 28 Dec. 1844; stipendiary magistrate Lambeth police court, Kennington lane 4 Jany. 1845–67; M.P. Guildford 1826–30; recorder of Guildford Oct. 1827 to death; m. 1827 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan. d. Wonersh park, Guildford 24 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 223, 595 (1875); Law Times lviii 349 (1875); Times 1, 4, 8, 18, 20, 23 June 1836.

NORTON, John Bruce (eld. son of sir John David Norton, puisne justice Madras, d. 24 Sept. 1843). b. 1815; educ. Harrow 1829–34, in the cricket eleven 1832–3, head of the school 1833; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 13 June 1833, postmaster 1833–7, B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1841; sheriff of Madras 1843–5; clerk of the crown in supreme court of judicature 1845 till 17 Aug. 1862, when court was abolished; counsel for paupers 1847; government pleader 1 Feb. 1853; public prosecutor 15 Aug. 1862; acting advocate general 1862–3; advocate general 2 June 1863, resigned 1871; a senator of Madras univ. and professor of law; president of Patcheapah’s Institution; lecturer on law to Indian students at the Temple, London Jany. 1873; held private classes; author of Folia opima. By J. B. N. of Merton college 1843; The rebellion in India, how to prevent another 1857; The law of evidence applicable to the courts of the East India company 1858, 8 ed. 1873; Memories of Merton 1861, 2 ed. 1865 in verse; Nemesis, a poem 1861; A selection of leading cases in the Hindu law of inheritance, 2 vols. 1870–1. d. 11 Pengwern road, Kensington, London 13 July 1883. Law Times 21 July 1883 p. 232, 28 July p. 249.

NORTON, Thomas (2 son of Peter Norton of Athlone, co. Westmeath). b. Athlone 1806; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; student Gray’s Inn 5 Feb. 1829, barrister 26 Jany. 1848, bencher 1865 to death, treasurer 1869; called to Irish bar 1835; practised in Dublin; first puisne judge British Guiana 10 June 1837 to 1844; chief justice of Newfoundland 14 Sept. 1844 to 8 Oct. 1847; chairman of committee of Reform club; contested Reading 8 Aug. 1849, Athlone 23 April 1853, and Lymington 12 July 1865; master in crown office of court of queen’s bench 1860–2; queen’s coroner and attorney 1860, resigned 1872. d. 13 Bolton row, Mayfair, London 12 April 1875. bur. Kensal green 19 April. Law Times lix 39 (1875); Irish Law Times 15 May 1875 p. 252.

NORWAY, William King (son of William Norway, merchant, Wadebridge 1774–1819). b. Court place, Egloshayle, Cornwall 25 Sept. 1799; educ. Eton from 1811, king’s scholar 1813; solicitor at Wadebridge, Cornwall 1822–31; private sec. to sir William Molesworth, bart.; sec. of the Reform club, Pall Mall, London July 1852; author of A lecture on total abstinence from intoxicating drinks 1842. d. suddenly in his room at the Reform club 31 Jany. 1857. bur. Kensal Green 5 Feb.

NORWOOD, Charles Morgan (1 son of Charles Norwood). b. Ashford, Kent 1825; merchant and steamship owner at Hull; head of firm of C. M. Norwood & Co. 9 Gracechurch st. London 1862, and at 21 Billiter st. 1870; president of Hull chamber of commerce 1859 and 1860; first chairman of Associated chamber of commerce of the United Kingdom which met at Westminster 21 Feb. 1865; M.P. Hull 1865–85; contested Central division of Hull 1885 and 1886; chairman of the London and India docks joint committee 1889, rejected the demands of the dock labourers in the strike of Aug. 1889. d. 34 Ennismore gardens, London 24 April 1891. Pictorial World 9 May 1891 p. 598 portrait; I.L.N. 2 May 1891 p. 563 portrait.

NORWOOD, John (eld. son of Benjamin Norwood of Nelson st. Dublin). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; called to Irish bar Nov. 1846; joined North-East circuit; reported for the Irish Jurist; secretary of the Loan fund board 1881 to death; member of corporation of Dublin many years; chairman of Drumcondra petty sessions; prepared a large work on municipal law. d. Lakelands, Dundrum, co. Dublin 9 Sept. 1884. Irish law times 20 Sept. 1884 p. 491.

NOSOTTI, Charles Andrew (son of Andrew Nosotti, wine grower Italy, d. 1835). b. Milan 1796; came to England about 1819; a jeweller at 132 Oxford st. 1819–22; looking glass and frame manufacturer, carver, gilder, and upholsterer at 398 Oxford street, London 1822 to death, where was an immense hall of mirrors. d. 398 Oxford st. 28 Aug. 1853. bur. Kensal green. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 203–5 (1865).

Note.—His son Charles Francis Nosotti removed the business to 93–99 Oxford st. in 1880, and to 123 King’s road, Chelsea in 1891. He made a mirror 108 by 180 feet, weight 2 tons, cost £600, for the ball given by The Guards to the prince and princess of Wales 26 June 1863.

NOTT, Henry. b. 14 July 1810; ensign 19 Madras N.I. 24 April 1827, major 7 May 1860; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 17 Sept. 1871, L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July 1880; general 22 Jany. 1889; commanded the force engaged in suppression of the rebellion in the Cuddepah district 1847; served in the Burmese war of 1852–3, and with general Whitlock’s force during the mutiny. d. The Elms, Great Stanmore, Middlesex 29 March 1895.

NOTTAGE, Charles George (only son of the succeeding). b. 1853; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1879; barrister I.T. 11 May 1881; captain Devon artillery militia 17 Oct. 1885 to death. d. 35 Collingham road, South Kensington, London 24 Dec. 1894.

Note.—His estate was sworn at the value of £37,824 Feb. 1895; he bequeathed to four trustees a sum of £13,000 to establish The Nottage Institute for instructing yachtsmen and other sailors in the science of navigation. He also left £2,000 for a Nottage cup for yachts, but this bequest was declared to be invalid, Times 24 May 1895 p. 13.

NOTTAGE, George Swan. b. London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W. Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856; opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor 1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; m. 1851 Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885. d. Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait, lxxxv 444 (1884) portrait; City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp. 2–3, 6, 15 April 1885 pp. 2–3.

NOTTIDGE, William. b. 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty sessions; a well known philanthropist. d. Wandsworth, Surrey 17 March 1853. bur. at Bermondsey 23 March. G.M. xxxix 550 (1853).

NOVELLO, Vincent (son of Giuseppe Novello, an Italian). b. 240 Oxford road, now Oxford st. London 6 Sept. 1781; a chorister at chapel of Sardinian embassy, Duke st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1793–7; organist of Portuguese embassy chapel in South st. Grosvenor sq. 1797–22; taught the piano at Campbell’s school in Brunswick sq. 27 years, and at Hibbert’s school, Clapton 25 years; founded firm of Novello & Co. music publishers 1811; his son Joseph Alfred became music publisher at 67 Frith st. Soho 1829; pianist and conductor for the Italian opera at the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1812; one of the 30 original members of Philharmonic soc. 1812, pianist to the society, afterwards conductor, his cantata Rosalba was produced by the society 1834; the Manchester prize for the best glee of a cheerful nature was awarded to his Old May Morning 1832; helped to found the Choral harmonists’ society, which first met 2 Jany. 1833, and the Classical harmonists’ society; organist at the musical festival in Westminster abbey 1834; organist of Roman catholic chapel in Moorfields 1840–3; member of the Royal soc. of musicians where he played the viola; lived at Nice 1849 to death; published Collection of sacred music as performed at the Portuguese chapel 1811; A collection of motetts with accompaniment for the organ and piano 1815, twelve books; Twelve easy masses, 3 vols. 1816; Mozart’s masses arranged 1819; The evening service 1822, twelve books; Haydn’s masses arranged 1823; Studies in madrigalian scoring 1841, eight books; Novello’s Cathedral choir book 1848; The Fitzwilliam music, selected from the Italian composers in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge, 5 vols 1854; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music, original and arranged. d. Nice 9 Aug. 1861, memorial window placed in north transept of Westminster abbey 1863. Mary Cowden-Clarke’s Life of Vincent Novello (1864) portrait; A short history of cheap music, Novello, Ewer & Co. (1887) portrait.

Note.—On 17 Aug. 1808 he m. Mary Sabilla Hehl who d. Nice 25 July 1854. She was author of A day in Stowe gardens 1825, and wrote the words to her husband’s songs Doubt not my love 1835, Sterne’s Maria 1840, and The infant’s prayer 1845.

NOVERRE, Arthur. b. London 1815; in a government office; educ. St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Stanmore, Middlesex 1838–59; removed to 25 South st. Park lane, London 1859 where he had a high class practice; fellow Med. and Chir. soc. 1849, member of council 1870–71. d. 16 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1878. Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. viii 385 (1880).

NOWELL, John. b. Todmorden, Lancs. 1802; a hand loom weaver; a twister at Fielden Brothers’ works, Waterside, Todmorden to death; botanized over greater part of England, Wales and Ireland, and studied crypto-gamic botany; discovered a cavern moss, schistostega pennata 1840; assisted Thomas Baines in his Flora of Yorkshire; for Baines and Baker’s Yorkshire Flora 1854, he edited The mosses of of the county; the mosses Nowellia curvifolia, Zygodon Nowellii and Lastrea montana Nowelliana were called after him. d. Todmorden 1867. bur. Cross stone. Manchester quarterly i 205–18 (1882).

NOWELL, John. b. Farnley Wood, Yorkshire 1 March 1794; educ. Almondbury gram. sch.; gave lectures in Huddersfield on chemistry; engaged in the fancy trade; aided in founding Huddersfield college; an original member of Archæological soc.; made a copy of the first register book of Almondbury parish 1864; author of An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, also an essay on self-supporting schools of industry and mental discipline 1844; Manual of field gardening or Belgian agriculture made easy 1845, 2 ed. 1846. d. Almondbury 4 March 1869. Hulbert’s Annals (1882) 63, 144, 256, 448–52.

NOWOSIELSKI, Felix. b. Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. d. London 22 April 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery.

NOYES, Thomas Herbert (eld. son of rev. Thomas Herbert Noyes, V. of Bath-Easton, Somerset Dec. 1797 until his death 8 Aug. 1812). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; F.G.S.; author of Some notices of the family of Newton 1857; An Idyll of the Weald, with other lays and legends 1868; Hymns of modern man 1872; translated Lyrics and bucolics, the eclogues of Virgil, a selection of the odes of Horace, &c. 1868; author with G. de Mirelles Soares of Mind or more than matter, a spirit drama, by Pro and Con 1873. d. Craig-en-ross, Millport, Scotland 19 Dec. 1881.

NUGEE, George (youngest son of Francis James Nugee of St. James’s, London, tailor, d. 1844). b. London 24 July 1819; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., senior classical scholar, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; student at Inner Temple; curate to rev. W. J. E. Bennett at St. Paul’s, Wilton place, London 1845; warden of the House of mercy at Park house, Highgate 1846, a most successful penitentiary; principal of St. Paul’s mission college Dean st. Soho, London; sec. of London diocesan home mission; V. of Wymering and R. of Widley, Hants Jany. 1859–72; founded the order of St. Augustine at Wymering 1872; founded a May meeting at Wymering with a May Queen, and in London with a Rose Queen; founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary the Virgin at Wymering, a nursing society partly paid by the English government; worked in conjunction with Father Ignatius; founded St. Austin’s priory New Kent road, London 1872, provost 1872 to death; author of The necessity for Christian education to elevate the native character in India 1846; Instruction on confirmation 1848; Emmaus or things in the way 1848; The holy women of the gospel, lectures 1856; A penitential. By G. N. 1857; The words from the cross as applied to our own deathbeds 1856; St. Austin’s mission handbook of prayer and praise 1875; England and the Jews, their destiny and her duty 1881. d. at residence of his brother-in-law, rev. A. J. Street, Talaton rectory, Devon 5 Oct. 1892. The very rev. provost Nugee, M.A., a retrospect reprinted from the South London gazette (1879); Biograph iv 344–50 (1880); Church portrait journal iii 111 (1879) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii 626 (1885) portrait.

NUGENT, Charles Lavallin (son of colonel Andrew Nugent of Portaferry, co. Down). b. 4 Dec. 1815; ensign 58 foot 21 Aug. 1835, major 18 July 1851; major depôt battalion 28 Jany. 1859, placed on h.p. 1 June 1865; deputy judge advocate 1 April 1865 to 30 June 1875; L.G. 16 March 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; served in New Zealand war 1845–6; commanded the advance guard which penetrated the forest at Ruapekapeka, present at the capture of that pah. d. Southsea 3 Nov. 1884.

NUGENT, Sir Edmond. Alderman of Dublin 15 Jany. 1820, lord mayor 1827–28; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1828; resided at Airfield, St. Dolough’s, co. Dublin. d. 1856.

NUGENT, George Hodges. Vice-consul at Arica, Peru 16 March 1846, and consul there 16 June 1871 to death; acting chargé d’affaires at Lima 13 June to 4 Sept. 1874. d. Mollendo 25 March 1879. I.L.N. lxxv 505 (1879) portrait.

NUGENT, George William. b. 1814; proprietor of royal Cambridge music hall, Commercial st. Whitechapel, London 1869–79. d. at his house 59 Maida Yale, London 8 March 1884. bur. St. Mary’s cemetery, Kensal Green 14 March.

NUGENT, Lavall, Count Nugent (elder son of John Nugent of Ballinacor, co. Wicklow). b. Ballinacor 3 or 30 Nov. 1777; a cadet in the Austrian engineer corps 1 Nov. 1793, captain in the corps to 1 March 1799 when transferred to the quartermaster general’s staff; served in the Italian campaign 1799, and the Marengo campaign 1800; won the cross of Maria Theresa for the battle of Monte Croce 10 April 1800; commandant of 61st infantry regiment 1807–9; served on the staff during campaign of 1809; placed again on active list of Austrian army 1 July 1813; persuaded the Croats to fight against the French on Austria declaring war 11 Aug. 1813; drove the French behind the Isongo after many fights, besieged Trieste castle 16–30 Oct. 1813 when it surrendered; fought actions at Ferrara, Forli and Ravenna, and blockaded Venice Dec. 1813; defeated the French at Reggio, Parma and Piacenza 1814; honorary K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; as commander of a division of Marshall Bianchi’s army entered Florence 15 April 1815; invested Rome early in May 1815; commanded the Austrian troops in Naples 1816; created a prince of the Holy Roman empire 1816; colonel proprietor of 30th infantry regiment 1816; commanded the Neapolitan army as captain-general 1817–20; created a magnate of Hungary 1826; commanded a division at Venice 1828; master of the ordnance and commander of the troops in Lower Austria, the Tyrol, &c. 1830–40; general 1838; commanded in the Banat 1841–2, and in Lower Austria 1843–8; marched into Hungary with a reserve corps which he had organized on breaking out of the revolution 11 Sept. 1848; effected capitulation of Essig 14 Feb. 1849; organised a second reserve corps in Styria, but was driven back towards Servia July 1849; field-marshal Nov. 1849; present as a volunteer at battle of Solferino 24 June 1859. d. Bosilgevo, near Karlstadt, Croatia 21 Aug. 1862.

NUGENT, Sir Oliver (son of hon. Nicholas Nugent, M.D.) b. Antigua 1815; educ. Edinb. univ.; private sec. to sir Henry Light, governor of Antigua 1836; speaker of legislative assembly Antigua 1845; vice-president of legislative council 1867 and president 1869; commanded Antigua yeomanry cavalry 20 years; member of the executive council of Antigua and the Leeward islands to death; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; president of legislative council of the Leeward islands 1872–81. d. Millars, Antigua 28 Aug. 1894.

NUGENT, Sir Percy Fitzgerald, 1 Baronet (son of Thomas Fitzgerald). b. Baltinoran, co. Westmeath 29 Sept. 1797; educ. Old hall green, Herts.; assumed name of Nugent 14 Sept. 1831; created baronet 30 Sept. 1831; M.P. Westmeath 1847–52. d. Donore, near Multifarnham, co. Westmeath 25 June 1874. I.L.N. lxv 23 (1874).

NUGENT, St. George Mervyn (6 son of C. E. Nugent of Farran Connell house, co. Cavan). b. 19 Jany. 1825; ensign 29 foot 25 Oct. 1842, captain 15 March 1853; served in Sutlej campaign against the Sikhs 1845, present at Ferozeshah, Modkee, and Sobraon where wounded; captain 96 foot 26 Dec. 1854 to 18 Nov. 1859; D.A.A.G. Aldershot 1858–61; A.Q.M.G. Nova Scotia 1861–7, made arrangements for arrival in Halifax of 12,000 men and for sending them on to Rivièrè de Loup in winter; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters, Ireland 1870–5; D.Q.M.G. Malta 1877–8, where he received the Indian troops; A.A. and Q.M.G. North Britain 1878–80; lieut. col. 13 March 1880; hon. M.G. 21 July 1880. d. 29 May 1884. Times 4 June 1884 p. 10.

NUN, Richard. Called to Irish bar 1808; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844. d. 1867.

NUNN, Ann (dau. of captain Boyle of the R.N.). b. Southampton 1811; first appeared Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. London as Young Norval in Douglas 1824; acted at the New Pavilion, the Queen’s, and Sadler’s Wells; made a provincial tour; acted at the Queen’s, London with Madame Vestris 1829; had the entire lead at Sadler’s Wells under Osbaldiston for one season; acted in Nottingham where she was the original Pauline in the Lady of Lyons in the provinces; acted in Nottingham, Worcester, Liverpool, Norwich, Preston, and Sheffield circuits; appeared at Bradford in West York circuit as Julia in the Hunchback 12 Aug. 1844, remained in the circuit 12 years, often took the parts of Othello, Romeo, Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, and William in Black eyed Susan; was good as Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Constance in the Love Chase, and Miami in the Green Bushes; often played 14 different characters in a week; m. John Nunn a comedian at Bradford; made her last appearance as Mrs. Haller in The stranger and William in Black eyed Susan at Bradford 1863. d. at the residence of her son John F. Nunn, Granville road, Frizinghall, Bradford 1 Nov. 1890. bur. Undercliff cemet. 4 Nov. The Era 8 Nov. 1890.

NUNNELEY, Thomas (son of John Nunneley). b. Market Harborough, Leics. March 1809; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 12 July 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a surgeon at Leeds 1833 to death; surgeon to the Eye and ear hospital, Leeds, 20 years; lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery in Leeds school of medicine till 1866; surgeon to Leeds general infirmary 1864; gave evidence at the trials of the poisoners Wm. Palmer and Wm. Dove 1856; removed the whole tongue for cancer 1861; performed upwards of 1,000 operations for cataract; author of A treatise on erysipelas 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Anatomical tables 1838; On anæsthesia and anæsthetic substances generally, Worcester 1849; On the organs of vision, their anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 22 Park place, Leeds 1 June 1870. Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii 33 (1867) portrait; Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. vi 354 (1870); Lancet i 823 (1870).

NURSE, William Mountford. b. 1789; a builder; erected some of the terraces which surround Regent’s park, London; resided at 5 Langham place; built the Polytechnic, Regent st. 1837, in Dec. 1838 he leased it to the Polytechnic Institution, which had been incorporated by charter Aug. 1838, erected a new theatre adjoining the building 1847, the Institution took a lease of the new theatre 1848. d. York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 7 Dec. 1855.

NUSSEY, John. L.S.A. 1818; apothecary at 4 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London; apothecary to prince Albert to Dec. 1861; joint apothecary in ordinary to her majesty and the royal household to death; representative of the Apothecaries society of London in the general medical council 29 Oct. 1858, resigned 21 March 1862, treasurer of the council 25 Nov. 1858, resigned 23 June 1860. d. April 1862.

NUTT, David (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and Hanbury’s brewery, London). b. 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields, London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death; bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st. Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages 1857. d. 270 Strand, London 28 Nov. 1863. bur. at Norwood cemet. G.M. xvi 126 (1864).

NUTTALL, John, known as Soldier. b. Barnsley 1835; height 5 ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March 1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds, Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side, Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground 9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb. 1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. d. Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. Illust. sporting news v 57 (1866) portrait; Bell’s Life in London 30 Oct. 1875 p. 4.

NUTTALL, Thomas (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs. printer). b. Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786; brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March 1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri 1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England 1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death; author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia 1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany, Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d. Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii 75, &c. (1889); Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1860) 26–9; Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology of United States (1891) pp. v–vii.

NUTTALL, Thomas (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of the Westminster dispensary). b. London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856, captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut. col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan, the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug. 1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug. 1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April 1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880; L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. d. Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. A. Forbes’s Afghan wars (1892) 299.

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OAKELEY, Frederick (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). b. the Abbey house, Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. d. 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. Reminiscences of Oxford, edited by L. M. Q. Couch (1892) 301–45; A.R. (1845) 95–6; C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley (1845).

OAKELEY, Soulden. b. 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. d. Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856.

OAKES, Charles Henry (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry Oakes, 2 baronet 1756–1827). b. 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5 May 1837; edited Who’s Who 1851 to death. d. 16 May 1864.

OAKES, John Wright. b. Sproston house, near Middlewich, Cheshire 9 July 1820; exhibited fruit-pieces at Liverpool academy 1839 &c., member of the academy, hon. secretary several years; a landscape painter about 1843 to death; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 11 at Suffolk st. 1847–80; resided in London 1859 to death; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1874, resigned 1875; A.R.A. 2 April 1876; honorary M.R.S.A. Nov. 1883. d. Leam house, 34 Addison road, Kensington 8 July 1887. bur. Brompton cemet. I.L.N. lxviii 469 (1876) portrait; Graphic xiii 462, 476 (1876) portrait.

OAKES, Thomas George Alexander. b. 2 June 1827; cornet 12 lancers 16 Jany. 1846, lieut. col. 5 March 1861 to 25 March 1871; M.G. 17 May 1869; inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry 1 April 1873–7; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. Farnham 22 Aug. 1878.

OAKEY, John. b. 1813; glass paper manufacturer at 3 Manor place, Walworth, London 1833, subsequently manufacturer of emery, black lead, emery and glass cloths, glass, emery and flint papers, the Wellington knife polish and knife boards, and other specialties for household use; erected the Wellington mills, Westminster bridge road 1874, where he carried on business to his death, with his son Herbert Oakey as J. Oakey and sons; gained prize medals at Philadelphia 1876, Boston 1883, and the Crystal palace 1884. d. St. John’s, Victoria road, Surbiton 10 Jany. 1887.

OAKLEY, Charles Edward (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) b. Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ. Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850; scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A. 1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden, London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince Albert Victor 1864. d. Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. G.M. xix 526, 651 (1865); Times 19 Sept. 1865 p. 7, 25 Sept. p. 12.

OAKLEY, Herbert William. b. Taunton Jany. 1848; assistant to Boyd-Dawkins, professor of natural history in Owen’s college, Manchester 1870–7; in the Cape mounted police 1877–9; distinguished himself in the Moirosi campaign; assistant curator of colonial museum, Cape Town Sept. 1879 to death; with W. B. Dawkins, F.R.S. he wrote the sections on proboscidea, hyracoidea, and ungulata in P. M. Duncan’s Cassell’s Natural history, vol. ii, 273 et seq. (1878). d. Cape Town 14 Nov. 1884.

OAKLEY, John (son of John Oakley of Blackheath, Kent, land agent). b. Frindsbury near Rochester 28 Oct. 1834; educ. Rochester cathedral school and at Hereford gram. sch.; scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1852; president of the Oxford Union 1856; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1881; C. of St. Luke’s, Berwick st. London 1858–9; C. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1859–67; secretary to London diocesan board of education 1864–8; V. of St. Saviour’s, Hoxton 1867–81; declined bishopric of Nelson, New Zealand 1865; dean of Carlisle 23 Nov. 1881, installed 6 Jany. 1882; dean of Manchester Nov. 1883 to death; wrote in the Manchester Guardian under name of Vicesimus a memoir of Henry Nutcombe Oxenham and a series of papers on Dean Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men 1888–9; author of The Christian aspect and application of the decalogue 1865; The conscience clause, its history 1866. d. Deganwy, near Llandudno 10 June 1891. bur. Chiselhurst, stained glass memorial window erected in south aisle of Manchester cathedral. Health Journal (Manchester) June 1887 pp. 11–13 portrait; I.L.N. 21 June 1890 p. 774 portrait; Pictorial World 21 June 1890 p. 788 portrait.

OAKLEY, Octavius. b. Bermondsey, London 27 April 1800; placed with a cloth manufacturer near Leeds; a portrait painter at Derby about 1825, removed to Leamington 1836; came to London about 1841; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844, exhibited 210 landscapes and groups of gipsies, which gained him the sobriquet of Gipsy Oakley; exhibited 30 water-colour portraits at the R.A. 1826–60; there was a sale of his works at Christie’s March 1869. d. 7 Chepstow villas, Bayswater, London 1 March 1867. bur. Highgate cemet. Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii 268–71 (1891).

OAKLEY, William. b. 1818; governor of Somerset county gaol, Taunton 1850 to death; author of Observations on constabulary and police 1853; Observations on the grand jury system 1853. d. the gaol, Upper High st. Taunton 6 March 1880.

OASTLER, Richard (youngest child of Robert Oastler of Leeds, steward of the Fixby estates, Huddersfield, d. July 1820). b. St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 20 Dec. 1789; educ. the Moravian school at Fulneck; articled to Charles Watson, architect at Wakefield, 4 years; a commission agent, failed 1820; steward to Thomas Thornhill at Fixby hall 5 Jany. 1821, discharged for opposing the poor-law comrs. 28 May 1838; began his attempt to reform the factories by a letter to the Leeds Mercury entitled ‘Yorkshire Slavery’ 29 Sept. 1830; became known as ‘The factory king’; published letters on the ten-hours day and similar subjects in some of the unstamped periodicals; confined more than three years in the Fleet prison, from 9 Dec. 1840, for a debt of £2,000; published The Fleet Papers, being letters to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, of Riddlesworth, from Richard Oastler his prisoner in the Fleet 1841; an Oastler liberation fund was started 1842, released from prison Feb. 1844; made a public entry into Huddersfield 20 Feb. 1844; agitated for a ten hours’ day 1844–7; edited The Home, weekly paper 3 May 1851 to June 1855; edited with rev. J. R. Stephens a weekly journal entitled the Ashton Chronicle; lived at South Hill cottage, Guildford 1845 to death; author of Vicarial tithes, Halifax 1827; The Huddersfield dissenter stark staring mad, because the mask has fallen 1835; The devil-to-do amongst the dissenters in Huddersfield 1835; Slavery in Yorkshire 1835; More work for the Leeds new thief catchers 1836; Damnation, eternal damnation to the fiend begotten coarser food new poor law 1837; Brougham versus Brougham on the new poor law 1847; Factory legislation 1855. d. Harrogate 22 Aug. 1861. bur. Kirkstall churchyard, bronze statue by J. B. Philip at Bradford, unveiled 15 May 1869. Sketch of the life and opinions of R. Oastler, Leeds (1838) portrait; Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 499–503, 671; Spence’s Eminent men of Leeds pp. 53–9 with portrait; R. Oastler’s Fleet papers, vol. 1, number 12 portrait; Illust. news of the world viii 245 (1861) portrait; I.L.N. iv 156 (1844) portrait.

OATES, Francis (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside, Yorkshire). b. Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America 1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873 and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river; started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi 31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. d. of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. Matabele land and the Victoria falls, a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F. Oates, ed. by C. J. Oates 1881, 2 ed. (1889) memoir pp. xix–xlii and portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv, p. clii (1875).

OATES, James Poole. b. 1768; ensign 88 foot 3 March 1797, captain 19 Oct. 1804, placed on h.p. 26 March 1818; served in the West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, and South America; present at almost every siege and battle in the Peninsular war; received the gold medal for Egypt and the silver war medal with ten clasps; lieut. col. in the army 22 July 1830; K.H. 1837. d. 6 Linden grove, Notting hill, London 4 April 1863.

OATES, William Wilfrid. b. 1828; publisher of Roman catholic books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st. Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and Oates to death. d. 28 Dec. 1876.

O’BRIEN, Bartholomew (son of Bartholomew O’Brien of Harbledown, Canterbury). b. 18 June 1818; ensign 2 West India regiment 15 April 1836, lieut. 1838–40; lieut. 77 foot 23 July 1841, major 20 April 1855; major 87 foot 17 Aug. 1855; lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859; lieut. col. military train 15 Nov. 1859, placed on h.p. 12 Sept. 1870; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny and in New Zealand 1863–7; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 1 Addison road, Bedford park, Chiswick, Middlesex 8 March 1885.

O’BRIEN, Cornelius (son of Henry O’Brien of Birckfield, co. Clare). b. Birckfield 1782; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; admitted attorney 1811; M.P. Clare 1832–52, and 1852–7. d. about 1857.

O’BRIEN, Dominic. b. Waterford 5 July 1798; studied theology at the Propaganda college, Rome; D.D.; ordained priest at Rome 1821; chaplain to the Ursuline convent, Waterford; president of St. John’s college, Waterford; one of the secretaries to the synod of Thurles 1850; parish priest of St. Patrick’s, Waterford; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 July 1855 to death, consecrated 30 Sept. 1855. d. at the Episcopal residence, George st. Waterford 12 June 1873. bur. in St. John’s cath. Munster Express 14 June 1873 p. 4; Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 76 (1876).

O’BRIEN, Donat Henchy (2 son of Michael O’Brien of Ennistimon, co. Clare). b. Ireland 5 Nov. 1784; entered navy 16 Dec. 1796; master’s mate of the Hussar frigate, when she was wrecked on the Saints (Ile de Sein) 8 Feb. 1804; a prisoner of war at Verdun 1804, escaped Nov. 1808; lieut. of the Warrior 29 March 1809, assisted at the reduction of Ionian Islands; lieut. of the Amphion March 1810, served in action off Lissa 13 March 1811; commanded the Slaney on the South American station 1818–21; captain 5 March 1821; R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; author of The narrative of captain O’Brien, containing an account of his shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France 1814; My adventures during the late war, comprising a narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, &c. from 1804–27, 2 vols. 1839 portrait. d. Yew house, Hoddesdon 13 May 1857, memorial window in Broxbourne church.

O’BRIEN, Fitz James (son of an attorney-at-law). b. Limerick 1828; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; went to London and spent his fortune of £8,000; edited a periodical in aid of the World’s fair 1851; went to U.S. of America about 1852, where he wrote in the Lantern, Home journal, Evening Post, New York times, American Whig review, and the Atlantic monthly; contributed more than 66 articles to Harper’s Mag. from Feb. 1853; author of The Diamond lens and other stories 1881; What was it 1889; wrote A gentleman from Ireland and other pieces for the theatres; the most able of the brilliant set of Bohemians in New York; joined the 7th regiment of New York national guard 1861. d. Cumberland, Virginia 6 April 1862, having been wounded in a skirmish 26 Feb. bur. Greenwood cemetery. The Diamond Lens (1887) memoir pp. vii–xx; Appleton’s American Biography iv 549 (1888) portrait.

O’BRIEN, James (2 son of Daniel O’Brien of Granard, co. Longford, wine merchant). b. 1805; educ. at Edgworthstown school and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829; student at Gray’s Inn 24 March 1830; acting editor of Henry Hetherington’s Poor man’s guardian, an unstamped paper 1831; wrote in Hetherington’s Poor man’s conservative, signed his articles Bronterre, and called himself subsequently James Bronterre O’Brien; started Bronterre’s National Reformer 1837, and in 1838 the Operative, which ceased July 1839; a delegate to the Chartist meeting in Palace yard, Westminster 17 Sept. 1838; contributed violent articles to the Northern Star 1839; tried at Newcastle Feb. 1840 on a charge of conspiracy, when acquitted, but sentenced at Liverpool April 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment for seditious speaking; quarrelled with Feargus O’Connor, who called him the ‘Starved Viper’; edited the British Statesman June to Dec. 1842, and The National Reformer 1845; a delegate to Chartist convention 4 April 1848, but withdrew 9 April; edited Reynold’s Newspaper for short time in 1848; lectured on his scheme of social reform at John st. institute and at the Eclectic institute, Denmark st. Soho, London; author of The life and character of Maximilian Robespierre 1837, vol. 1, no more published; Ode to lord Palmerston 1856; An ode to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1857; An elegy on the death of Robespierre 1857; A vision of hell, lord Overgrown’s dream, his lordship’s reunion with sir Robert Peel in the regions below 1859. d. Hermes st. Pentonville, London 23 Dec. 1864. R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartist movement (1854) 114 et seq.

O’BRIEN, James. b. 1810; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1843, M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1859; entered Magdalen hall, Oxf.; incorporated B.A. at Hertford coll. 1861, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1863; P.C. of St. Patrick, Hove, Brighton 1858, built a church at his own cost £20,000, 1868, the patronage of which he bequeathed to Hove; he figures in Cuthbert Bede’s novel Mattins and Mutton’s, or the beauty of Brighton, 2 vols. 1866, as Dr. O’Lion vol i, p. 319 et seq. d. St. Patrick’s parsonage 8 Jany. 1884.

O’BRIEN, James (3 son of James O’Brien of Limerick). b. Limerick 27 Feb. 1806; educ. at Belfast institution and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; third serjeant at law 1848–51; second serjeant at law 1851 to 25 Jany. 1858; bencher of Kings inns 1849; M.P. Limerick 1854–8; justice of court of queen’s bench 25 Jany. 1858 to death. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 29 Dec. 1881. Law mag. and law review iii 209 (1857); Law times lxxii 176 (1882).

O’BRIEN, James Thomas (son of Michael Burke O’Brien, corporation officer of New Ross, Westmeath, d. 1826). b. New Ross, Sept. 1792; educ. endowed school of New Ross; a pensioner at Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1810, scholar 1813, gold medalist 1815, fellow 1820–36, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1831; one of the six Dublin univ. preachers 1828–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 30 March 1833; voted freedom of borough of New Ross Sept. 1826; V. of Clondahorky, Raphoe 1836–7; V. of Arboe, Armagh 1837–41; dean of Cork 9 Nov. 1841, instituted 5 Jany. 1842; bishop of Ossory, Fearns, and Leighlin 9 March 1842 to death, consecrated in Trinity college chapel 20 March 1842; restored the use of the offertory in the cathedral; author of An attempt to explain the doctrine of justification by faith only, in ten sermons 1833, 3 ed. 1863; Sermons upon the nature and effects of faith 1833, 5 ed. 1891; Tractarianism, its present state and the only safeguard against it 1850; and 20 other books. d. 49 Thurlow sq. London 12 Dec. 1874. bur. in churchyard of St. Canice’s cathedral, Kilkenny 19 Dec. W. G. Carroll’s Memoir of J. T. O’Brien (1875) portrait.

O’BRIEN, John (brother of James O’Brien 1806–81). M.P. city of Limerick 1841–52; of Elmvale, co. Clare. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 5 Feb. 1855. Freeman’s Journal 7 Feb. 1855 p. 3.

O’BRIEN, John (son of a solicitor by a Miss Nalder). b. Nenagh, co. Tipperary 1811; educ. Trinity college, Dublin to 1834; a sporting man residing at Limmer’s hotel, London 1844, and setting up for a leader of fashion; had horses trained by Thomas Dawson of Middleham; purchased Traverser colt 1843, with whom he won many races; purchased Grimston and Jonathan Wild, won Goodwood stakes with the latter and the Goodwood cup with Grimston 1846; said to be worth £25,000 after the Goodwood of 1846; lost all his money by 1848; pawned some paintings on which the Bishop of Bond st. (Wm. Bishop d. 1871) had made advances, sent to Newgate 1862; fined £100 for an assault on Dollar Smith 1862; became a broken down swell. d. Nenagh 29 Sept. 1869. Sporting Times 22 Aug. 1885 p. 2.

O’BRIEN, Joseph. b. 1793; entered navy 25 June 1807; lieut. in the Impregnable at bombardment of Algiers 1816; commander of the Beaver sloop 1826; captain 8 Aug. 1829, when he went on h.p; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. d. Fareham 17 Nov. 1865.

O’BRIEN, Matthew (son of Matthew O’Brien, M.D.). b. Ennis 1814; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1834, junior fellow 1840–1; third wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; moderator in the mathematical tripos 1843–4; lecturer on practical astronomy at R.M.A. Woolwich 10 Jany. 1849 to death; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in King’s college, London 8 March 1844 to 17 Aug. 1854; author of Mathematical tracts, Part i on Laplace’s Coefficients 1840, no more published; An elementary treatise on the differential calculus 1842; The senate house problems for 1844, with solutions 1844; A treatise on plane co-ordinate geometry 1844, part i; On a new notation for expressing conditions and equations in geometry 1847. d. Petit Ménage, Jersey 22 Aug. 1855.

O’BRIEN, Michael William (son of William O’Brien). b. 29 Sept. 1813; educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; barrister L.I. 5 May 1842; revising barrister 1854; serjeant at law 13 May 1862; recorder of Lincoln Jan. 1872 to death. d. 57 Brunswick road, Brighton 2 June 1873. Law times lv 209 (1873).

O’BRIEN, Sir Patrick, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Timothy O’Brien, d. 1862). b. Dublin 1823; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847; called to the Irish bar 1844; M.P. King’s county 1852–85; succeeded to the baronetcy 4 Dec. 1862; refused to cooperate with the Parnellite party; at one time he complained to the speaker of the insolence of a member, whom he called ‘the young sea serpent from county Clare’; a well known member of the Reform club; author of Notes of interviews with the ministers of France in reference to the policy of Louis Napoleon 1852; The French and English in Rome, with notes of interviews with the Pope and cardinal Antonelli 1853; Journal of a residence in the Danubian principalities 1854; resided 10 Bryanstown square, London. d. 20 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 25 April 1895.

O’BRIENN, Terence. Lieut. 87 foot 7 Jany. 1819, major 18 April 1845 to 31 July 1846, when placed on h.p.; assistant quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1855 to 6 Nov. 1860; commanded the troops in Ceylon 6 Nov. 1860 to death; M.G. 13 Feb. 1861; granted service reward 10 Nov. 1856. d. on board P. and O. ship Golconda at Suez 27 July 1865, aged 66.

O’BRIEN, Sir Timothy, 1 Baronet (son of Timothy O’Brien of Tinnekilly, co. Tipperary). b. co. Tipperary 1790; merchant; Spanish consul and consul for Parma and Placentia 50 Fleet st. Dublin; governor of the Hibernian bank; lord mayor of Dublin 1844 and 1849; M.P. Cashel 1846–59; created baronet 25 Aug. 1849 on occasion of the queen’s visit to Ireland. d. 14 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 4 Dec. 1862.

O’BRIEN, William Shoney. b. Abbeyleix, Ireland 1825; emigrated to New York, admitted a citizen 1845; worked in the mines in California 1849; with J. C. Flood kept the Auction lunch saloon, San Francisco 1854–66; a ship chandler; with J. C. Flood, J. S. Fair and John Mackey held the silver mine on the Comstock ledge, Nevada, called the big bonanza 1874, from which they gained immense wealth, and became known as the Bonanza Kings, he held one fifth part of the mine. d. San Rafael, California 2 May 1878, left from 15 million to 20 million dollars. Appleton’s American biography iv 551 (1888).

O’BRIEN, William Smith (2 son of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet 1773–1837). b. Dromoland, co. Clare 17 Oct. 1803; educ. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; assumed additional name of Smith on death of his maternal grandfather; M.P. Ennis 1828–31; fought a duel with Thomas Steele, O’Connell’s ‘head pacificator’; M.P. Limerick 1835–48; a motion in house of commons declaring him guilty of contempt for refusing to serve on a railway committee of which he had been appointed a member, was carried by 120 votes 28 April 1846, committed to custody of sergeant-at-arms 30 April and discharged 25 May; made his last speech in house of commons 10 April 1848; joined the Repeal Association 20 Oct. 1843 and became the second man in the movement; seceded from O’Connell’s party 27 July 1846; chief founder of the Irish Confederation, which first met 13 Jany. 1847; met Mitchel at the confederate soirée at Limerick 29 April 1848, which meeting is burlesqued by Thackeray in his The Battle of Limerick (W. M. Thackeray’s Ballads and Tales 1869, pp. 179–83); tried in court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 May 1848, for his speech at meeting of the Irish confederation 15 March urging formation of a national guard, but the jury were discharged without returning a verdict 16 May; made an attack on the police at Boulah Common, near Ballingarry 29 July 1848, which failed, arrested at Thurles railway station 5 Aug., tried at Clonmel by a special commission 28 Sept., found guilty of high treason 7 Oct. and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 9 Oct., this sentence was commuted to transportation for life and he was sent to Tasmania 29 July 1849, granted a pardon 26 Feb. 1854; resided at Brussels 1854–6; returned to Ireland July 1856; author of Considerations relative to the renewal of the East India company’s charter 1830; Principles of government or meditations in exile, 2 vols. 1856. d. Penrhyn arms, Bangor 18 June 1864. bur. Rathronan churchyard, co. Limerick 24 June, statue by Thomas Farrell, R.H.A. erected close to O’Connell bridge, Dublin 1870. Cusack’s The liberator: his life and times (1872) 573–5; Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 316–7, 331–3, 511, 561; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 469–533 (1850); Sullivan’s New Ireland i 163–8 (1877); Clark and Finnelly’s House of Lords cases ii 465–96 (1851); T. C. Anstey’s Case as to the legality of the arrest of W. S. O’Brien 1846; J. G. Hodge’s Report of trial of W. S. O’Brien for high treason 1849; I.L.N. iv 424 (1844) portrait, viii 300 (1846) portrait, xiii 92, 220 (1848) portrait.

O’BRYAN, William (2 son of Mr. Bryant). b. Gunwen, Luxulyan, Cornwall 6 Feb. 1778; converted 5 Nov. 1795; changed his name to O’Bryan; preached in East Cornwall and West Devon; resided for some years at Liskeard; expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist society Nov. 1810; formed a small sect constituted under name of Arminian Bible Christians, otherwise Bryanites, at Lake in Cornwall 1815; the greater part of his adherents seceded in 1829, and founded a separate society under the name of Bible Christians; emigrated to U.S. of America 1831, preached a great deal, but was not able to found a church; author of The rules of society, or a guide to conduct for those who desire to be Arminian Bible Christians, 2 ed. 1812; A collection of hymns for the use of the people called Arminian Bible Christians, Stoke Damerel 1825; Travels in the United States of America 1836. d. Brooklyn, New York 8 Jany. 1868. Thorne’s William O’Bryan (1888); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874) 406.

O’BRYEN, James Joseph (son of Terence O’Bryen of Glancolumbhill, co. Clare). b. 1823; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 22 Nov. 1843, served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and was present in battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon, medal and two clasps; adjutant of the 16 N.I. till his regiment was disbanded in the mutiny 1857; barrack master at Moradabad and at Almorah; second in command of the 16 or Lucknow regt.; joined the staff corps on its formation, major 22 Nov. 1863, second in command of 22 Punjab N.I. 1864, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1869, served in Lushai expedition 1872, medal and clasp, colonel 1874, present in Jowaki campaign 1877, marched with his regt. into Afghanistan Dec. 1879. d. Safed Sang 22 Jany. 1880. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 150–1 portrait, plate xii.

O’CALLAGHAN, Edmund Bailey. b. Mallow near Cork 28 Feb. 1797; studied medicine in Paris 1820–2; emigrated to Canada 1823; practised at Quebec 1827–30; assisted in forming the association called The Friends of Ireland, in Quebec; removed to Montreal 1830; edited The Vindicator, the organ of the Canadian patriots 1834, the office of his paper was wrecked by members of the tory Doric club 6 Nov. 1835; member for Yamaska in the assembly of Upper Canada 1835; fought on the side of the revolutionists at battle of St. Denis 23 Nov. 1837, when the rising failed he fled to U.S. of America, a reward was offered for his apprehension as a traitor 29 Nov. 1837; practised as a doctor at Albany; edited The Northern Light, an industrial journal; hon. M.D. univ. of St. Louis 1846, and LL.D. St. John’s college, Fordham, Massachusetts; edited State records, or documentary history of the state of New York, 11 vols. 1849–51; author of The late session of the provincial parliament of Lower Canada, by An old countryman 1836; History of New Netherlands, or New York under the Dutch, 2 vols. 1846–8; Jesuit relations of discoveries in Canada and the northern and western states 1636–72, 1847; A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures printed in America 1861. d. 651 Lexington avenue, New York 29 May 1880. bur. Calvary cemetery 2 June. Magazine of American history July 1880 pp. 77–80.

O’CALLAGHAN, John Cornelius (son of John O’Callaghan, attorney). b. Dublin 1805; educ. at Jesuit coll. at Clongowes Wood; called to Irish bar 1829, but did not practice; wrote for The Comet, Dublin weekly paper 1830–3, then for The Irish monthly magazine, his contributions to these two periodicals were published under title of The Green Book, or gleanings from the writing desk of a literary agitator 1841, 2 ed. 1845; was on the staff of The Nation newspaper 1842, using the signature of Gracchus, wrote The Exterminator’s song in the first number; edited Charles O’Kelly’s Macariæ Excidium, or the destruction of Cyprus 1846, being the secret history of the revolution in Ireland from 1688–91; author of The Irish in the English army and navy 1843; History of the Irish brigade in the service of France, Dublin 1854, vol. 1, another ed. Glasgow 1870. d. Fitzgibbon street, Dublin 24 April 1883. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland i, 18, 103 (1884); Irish Monthly xvii 503 (1889), xviii 411–21 (1890); Freeman’s Journal 25 April 1883 and 5 Feb. 1892.

O’CALLAGHAN, William Frederick Ormonde (2 son of 2 viscount Lismore, b. 1815). b. London 14 Nov. 1852; educ. Eton 1868 etc.; M.P. co. Tipperary Feb. 1874 to death. d. 20 April 1877. Times 23 April 1877 p. 6.

OCEANA, stage name of Oceana Renz (dau. of Ethardo the spiral ascensionist). b. at sea and christened Oceana 1858; a slack wire walker, first came out in Italy 1865; first appeared in England at the Canterbury music hall; played at the Cirque d’eté, Paris 1878; acted Leo in Les pirates de la Savane at the Théâtre des nations, Paris; was for some seasons at the Hippodrome, Paris; visited all the capitals of Europe; appeared with W. Holland’s circus at Covent Garden theatre, London Dec. 1884; m. Ernest Renz of the Circus Renz, Berlin, who is dead; last appeared in England at the Trocadero music hall 1883. d. of paralysis at Nice 17 April 1895. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xxii 412, 461 (1885) portrait.

O’CONNELL, Charles (son of Daniel O’Connell of Porthagee, co. Kerry). b. 1805; M.P. co. Kerry 1833–4; resident magistrate in Bantry 1847 to death. d. Ballynabloun, co. Kerry 20 Jany. 1877. Times 23 Jany. 1877 p. 6.

O’CONNELL, Sir James, (1 Baronet) 4 son of Morgan O’Connell of Carhen, co. Kerry 1739–1809). b. Carhen house, co. Kerry 10 Jany. 1786; educ. Cork; created baronet 29 Oct. 1869. d. Lakeview, near Killarney 28 July 1872. I.L.N. lxi 143 (1872).

O’CONNELL, John (3 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. Dublin 24 Dec. 1810; called to the Irish bar 1837; M.P. Youghall 15 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; M.P. Athlone 1837–41; M.P. Kilkenny 1841–7; M.P. Limerick 1847–51; M.P. Clonmel 21 Dec. 1853 to Feb. 1857; helped his father in the repeal agitation and prepared reports for the repeal association; tried with his father in the court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844, sentenced to 9 months imprisonment and to pay a fine of £50, 30 May, imprisoned in Richmond gaol 30 May, released 4 Sept., the house of lords having reversed the judgment of the queen’s bench; succeeded his father as head of the repeal association in Ireland, which was dissolved for want of funds 6 June 1848; carried on an agitation under popular name of the ‘Young Liberator’; clerk of the Hanaper office, Ireland Feb. 1857 to death; edited The life of Daniel O’Connell, 2 vols. 1846; The select speeches of D. O’Connell, 2 vols. 1854–5; author of An argument for Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1847; Recollections and experiences during a parliamentary career, 2 vols. 1849. d. Gowran hill, Kingstown, near Dublin 24 May 1858. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 28 May. Reports of state trials, n.s., vol. v (1893); Shaw’s Report of the Irish state trials (1844); I.L.N. iv, 88 (1844) portrait.

O’CONNELL, Maurice (brother of preceding). b. 1803; called to Irish bar 1827; M.P. Clare 1831–2; M.P. borough of Tralee 1832 to death; wrote in Mrs. Johnstone’s Edinburgh Tales, 3 vols. 1845–6, The Legend of the Big fluke ii, 144–7, and The Ross Beh wrecker ii, 147–51. d. London 17 June 1853. I.L.N. xxii 507 (1853).

Note.—Daniel O’Connell, his 3 sons, and 2 of his sons-in-law were all members of the first reformed parliament.

O’CONNELL, Sir Maurice Charles (elder son of general sir Maurice Charles Philip O’Connell, acting governor of N.S.W. 1846, d. Sydney 25 May 1848). b. Sydney Jany. 1812; educ. East Sheen 1819, and the high sch. Edinb.; ensign 73 foot 25 March 1828, lieut. 25 Nov. 1831, placed on h.p. 24 July 1835; lieut. col. of the 10 Munster light infantry 1835, which he had raised in Ireland for service under queen Isabella of Spain against Don Carlos; was present in several engagements between the Christinos and the Carlists; D.A.G. of the British legion in Spain, and then general of brigade 1836, the British legion was disbanded at San Sebastian 1837; created knight commander of Isabella the Catholic, knight of San Fernando, and knight extraordinary of Charles III.; lieut. 51 foot 25 Nov. 1837; captain 28 foot 22 June 1838, sold out 24 May 1844; military secretary to his father in N.S.W.; settled in N.S.W. as a breeder of horses 1844, a great authority on breeding; contested Sydney for the first legislative council 1843; member for Port Philip Aug. 1845 to 7 Nov. 1848; a comr. for crown lands in the Burnett district 7 Nov. 1848; government resident comr. of crown lands and police magistrate of Port Curtis Jany. 1854 to 10 Dec. 1859; member of the first legislative council of Queensland 29 May 1860, president of the council Aug. 1860 to death; administered the government of Queensland 4 Jany. to 14 Aug. 1868, 2 Jany. to 12 Aug. 1871, 12 Nov. 1874 to 23 Jany. 1875; knighted by patent 6 March 1871; colonel commandant of Queensland volunteers; provincial grand master of the freemasons of the Irish constitution. d. Brisbane 23 March 1879, bust in Queensland council chamber, presented to him by the council 1878. Heads of the people i 79 (1847) portrait, ii 113 (1848) portrait of his wife.

O’CONNELL, Morgan (2 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. 30 Merrion sq. Dublin 31 Oct. 1804; an officer in the Irish South American legion which served under Bolivar in Bolivia about 1821–5; served in the Austrian army; M.P. Meath 19 Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1840; first assistant registrar of deeds for Ireland, with £1200 a year, Jany. 1840 granted pension of £780, 22 Oct. 1869; fought a duel with 2 baron Alvanlay at Chalk Farm, London 4 May 1835, when neither was wounded; challenged by Benjamin Disraeli Dec. 1835, but declined to fight. d. 12 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Jany. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 23 Jany. Hitchman’s Public life of Earl of Beaconsfield (1881) 47–55; Irish Monthly xv 160–5 (1887).

O’CONNELL, Morgan David. Educ. Dublin univ. and Glasgow univ., M.D. 1838; L.M. Dublin lying-in-hospital 1833; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1835, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; a surgeon in British army; joined the British legation at Madrid 1830, helped to suppress rebellion against queen Isabella, served in several engagements, received gold medal and clasp of the legion of honour, bearing inscription ‘Spain intends to show her gratitude’; created a knight of the order of St. Ferdinand; settled at Kilmallock as a surgeon. d. Kilmallock 23 Jany. 1887.

O’CONNELL, Morgan John (1 son of John O’Connell of Grena, co. Kerry). b. 27 Aug. 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; student Gray’s Inn 4 May 1833, readmitted 11 June 1851, called 7 June 1852; M.P. co. Kerry 1835–52; one of the most popular Irish members; succeeded to the Coppinger estates, co. Cork. d. at the residence of his father-in-law Carlo Bianconi, Longfield, Tipperary 2 July 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).

O’CONNOR, Arthur (3 son of Roger Connor of Connerville). b. Mitchelstown, co. Cork 4 July 1765; fellow commoner of Trin. coll. Dublin 1779 under name of Arthur Connor, B.A. 1782; called to Irish bar Nov. 1788; member for Philipstown in the Irish parliament 1791, resigned his seat 4 May 1795; joined the United Irishmen 1796; formed with lord Edward Fitzgerald the first Leinster Directory 1796; arrested for seditious libel Feb. 1797, imprisoned in Dublin Castle six months; chief editor of The Press, the organ of the United Irishmen 1797; tried at Maidstone, Kent May 1798 for high treason, when acquitted, but detained as a state prisoner 1798–1803 for negotiating with the French general Hoche; confined at Fort George, Scotland April 1799, released and went to France June 1803; appointed by Bonaparte a general of division 29 Feb. 1804; m. 1807 Eliza de Condorcet, only dau. of Marquis de Condorcet, the mathematician; resided in Rue de Tournon, Paris 1818–34, and in the chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 1834 to death; became a naturalised Frenchman 1818 and took name of Arthur Condorcet O’Connor; author of The measures of ministry to prevent a revolution are the certain means of bringing it on. By a Stoic, Cork 1794; A letter to the earl of Carlisle 1795; Speech on the Catholic bill 1795, 3 ed. 1796; State of Ireland 1798; Etat actuel de la Grande Bretagne 1804; Monopoly the cause of all evil, 3 vols. 1848; edited with Arago The works of Condorcet, 12 vols. 1847–9. d. Chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 25 April 1852. Madden’s United Irishmen, 2nd series, ii 289–324 (1842); Biographical Anecdotes of the founders of the Irish rebellion. By A candid observer (1799) 38–43; Biographie Générale xxxviii 451–4 (1862).

O’CONNOR, Feargus (son of Roger O’Connor of Connorville, co. Cork, Irish nationalist 1762–1834). b. Dangan castle, co. Meath 18 July 1794; educ. at Portarlington gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar; took part in the reform agitation in co. Cork 1831; travelled through the country organising the registration of the new electorate 1832; M.P. co. Cork 29 Dec. 1832, re-elected 24 Jany. 1835 but unseated June 1835 not having the necessary property qualification; contested Oldham 8 July 1835, but received only 32 votes; founded the central committee of radical unions 1836, and the London democratic association 1837; established 18 Nov. 1837 the Northern Star, weekly radical paper published at Leeds, which became the official chartist paper 1838; took the chief part in the chartist convention which met in London 4 Feb. 1839, dissolved 14 Sept.; tried at York 17 March 1840 for seditious libels published in the Northern Star July 1839, sentenced 11 May 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment in York castle, released Sept. 1841; one of the 59 persons tried at Lancaster 1 March 1843, for taking part in the ‘Plug riots’ of Aug. 1842, he was convicted but never called up for judgment; with Mr. Grath held a public debate with Bright and Cobden 5 Aug. 1844; inaugurated the chartist co-operative land company 24 Oct. 1846, afterwards altered to the National land co.; edited with Ernest Jones The Labourer, a monthly magazine, vols. 1–4, 1847–8; purchased estates of W. B. Cliffe, 500 acres for £20,000, Feb. 1847; M.P. Nottingham 1847–52; moved for a committee on the union with Ireland 7 Dec. 1847, when defeated by 232 votes; presided at the chartist meeting on Kennington common 10 April 1848, and presented the chartist petition to the house of commons same evening; went to U.S. of America spring of 1852; grossly insulted Beckett Denison, M.P. in the house of commons 9 June 1852, when committed to custody of the sergeant-at-arms; pronounced to be insane by two medical men 10 June, confined in Dr. Tuke’s asylum at Chiswick June 1852 to 20 Aug. 1854; author of A state of Ireland showing the rise and progress of the present disaffection, Cork 1820; A series of letters to Daniel O’Connell on Catholic emancipation 1836; The trial of Feargus O’Connor, edited by himself, Manchester 1843; A practical work on the management of small farms 1846. d. at his sister’s house 18 Albert terrace, Notting hill, London 30 Aug. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 10 Sept. when 50,000 persons were present. Reports of state trials, n.s., iii 1299–1311 (1891), iv 935–1248, 1352–65 (1892); The Labourer, vol. 2 (1848) portrait; R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism 1854 p. 19 et seq.; J. Frost’s Forty years’ recollections (1880) 169–85; G.M. xliv 545–7 (1855); I.L.N. i 344 (1842) portrait, xii 243 (1848) portrait; Michael Mc Donagh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 83–6.

O’CONNOR, John (son of Mr. O’Connor who emigrated from Kerry to Boston, U.S. 1823). b. Boston Jany. 1824; educ. in co. Essex, Ontario; a farm labourer, lost his leg by an accident; called to the bar in Ontario Jany. 1854; admitted to practise law in state of Michigan, and was thus an American citizen and a British subject at the same time, the point was tested in an election trial between him and Wm. M’Gregor 1874; reeve of Windsor and warden of Essex county; M.P. for Essex in Canadian legislature 1867–74, president of the council; minister of inland revenue and postmaster general successively 1872–3 and 1878–84; Q.C. 1873; M.P. Russell county 1878–84; puisne judge of queen’s bench division, Ontario 17 Sept. 1884 to death. d. Cobourg, Ontario 3 Nov. 1887. Law Journal 10 Dec. 1887 p. 661 col. 2.

O’CONNOR, John (3 son of Francis O’Connor). b. co. Londonderry 12 Aug. 1830; call-boy at the T.R. Dublin 1842; painted scenery for sir E. Tierney 1844, and for earl of Bective 1847; a scene-painter at Drury Lane theatre April 1848, and at Haymarket theatre Oct. 1848, principal scene-painter there 1863–78; visited Ireland at time of the queen’s visit 1849, on return to London painted for Philip Phillips a diorama of The Queen’s visit to Ireland, which was exhibited in the Chinese gallery; A.R.H.A.; exhibited 20 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. 1853–80; drawing master to the London and south western literary and scientific institution 1855–8; painted scenery for Shakespeare tercentary performances at Stratford-on-Avon 1864; took a studio with lord Ronald Gower at 47 Leicester sq. 1872; painted act-drops for the new Sadler’s Wells theatre 1879, St. James’s theatre, and the Minuet act-drop at Haymarket theatre 1879; built a house at 28 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood 1877, and lived there to 1888; painted The marriage of princess Louise and the marquess of Lorne 1871, The thanksgiving service in St. Paul’s 1872, and The jubilee service in Westminster abbey 1887; designed and directed many of the tableaux vivants held at Cromwell house and elsewhere; a member of the Cambridge amateur dramatic club for which he painted scenery many years. d. Heathcroft, Blackwater, Hampshire 23 May 1889. bur. Finchley cemetery.

O’CONNOR, John (son of Edward O’Connor of Mulgeeth house, co. Kildare). b. 1 May 1837; proprietor of many licensed houses in Dublin, and of a bacon curing establishment under the name of Donnelly & Co.; a representative of Inns-quay ward, Dublin 1880, alderman 1883, lord mayor of Dublin 1885; contested co. Kildare April 1880; M.P. South Kerry Dec. 1885, resigned Sept. 1887. d. 23 Rutland square, Dublin 12 Jany. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 15 Jany. Freeman’s Journal 13 Jany. 1891 p. 5, 15 Jany. p. 3.

O’CONNOR, Luke Smythe. b. Dublin 15 April 1806; ensign 1 West India regiment 27 April 1827, lieut. col. 21 Sept. 1855 to 29 July 1862; governor of the Gambia and commander of the troops in West Africa Sept. 1852; stormed Sabbajee the stronghold of the Mohammedan rebels of Combo 1 June 1853, and acquired by treaty considerable’ territory; stormed their stockade in the pass of Boccow Kooka 4 Aug. 1855; brigadier general commanding the troops during the rebellion in Jamaica 1865; member of privy council and president of legislative council of Jamaica; acting governor; granted distinguished service reward 27 Nov. 1855; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; M.G. 24 April 1866. d. 7 Racknistrasse, Dresden 24 March 1873. A. B. Ellis’s History of First West India regiment (1885) 211, 365; A. B. Ellis’s The land of the Fetish (1883) p. 6 et seq.

O’CONNOR, Michael. b. near Cork 27 Sept. 1810; ordained R.C. priest 1 June 1833; professor of sacred scripture in the Irish college, Rome 1833, vice-rector; pastor of Fermoy, Ireland 1834–9; professor in ecclesiastical seminary of St. Charles Boromeo, Philadelphia 1839, president about 1840; built the church of St. Francis Xavier in Fairmount, Philadelphia; vicar general of western part of diocese of Philadelphia 1841; bishop of Pittsburg 1843, consecrated 15 Aug. 1843; introduced the order of St. Benedict for the first time into the U.S. of America 1846; brought a colony of Passionists from Europe, to Pittsburg 1852; finished the Pittsburg cathedral 1855, resigned his see 1860; entered a Jesuit monastery in Germany 1860; professor of theology in Woodstock college, Maryland 1862; socius to the provincial of the Jesuits, and preacher and lecturer in most of the great cities. d. Woodstock 18 Oct. 1872. Appleton’s American Biography iv 553 (1888) portrait.

O’CONOR, Denis Maurice (2 son of Denis O’Conor of Belangare, called The O’Conor Don). b. 1840; educ. Downside coll. near Bath; M.A. univ. of London 1861, LL.D. 1866; sheriff of Roscommon 1865; barrister M.T. 30 April 1866; M.P. co. Sligo 2 Dec. 1868 to death. d. 110 Queen’s Gate, Kensington, London 26 July 1883.

O’CONOR, Sir Richard (2 son of sir Patrick O’Conor of Cork). b. Marble hill, co. Cork 1784; entered navy Sept. 1798; superintendent of the naval yards on the Canadian lakes 1813; commanded the boats at the capture of Oswego 1814; captain 16 Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired 1 Oct. 1846; a retired R.A. 2 Sept. 1850. d. 73 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1855.

O’CONOR, Thomas. b. Dublin 1 Sept. 1770; went to U.S. of America 1801; established with Wm. Kernan a settlement on a tract of 40,000 acres in Steuben, co. New York; resided in New York many years before his death; edited various periodicals, including the Military monitor established 1812, the Shamrock and the Globe founded 1819; author of Selections from several literary works 1821; The Inquisition examined by An impartial observer 1825. d. New York 9 Feb. 1855.

O’CONOR, William Anderson. b. Cork 1820; studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1849, B.A. 1864; entered St. Aidan’s theological college at Birkenhead, and became lecturer on Latin; ordained to curacy of St. Nicholas’s, Liverpool 1853; C. of St. Thomas’s, Liverpool 1854; C. of St. Michael with St. Olave, Chester 1855–8; R. of St. Simon and St. Jude, Manchester 1858 to death; wrote many papers for Manchester statistical society and Manchester literary club 1875 etc.; author of Miracles not antecedently incredible 1861; Faith and works 1868, 5 ed. 1885; The truth and the church 1869; A commentary on the epistle to the Romans 1871, 2 ed. 1886; The epistle to the Hebrews, with an introduction and notes 1872; A commentary on the gospel of St. John 1874; A commentary on Galatians with a revised text 1876; History of the Irish people, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1886; The Irish massacre of 1641, 1885. d. Torquay 22 March 1887. W. A. O’Conor’s Essays in literature and ethics, edited by W. E. A. Axon (1889) memoir pp. v–xvii portrait; The Manchester Quarterly Jany. 1891 pp. 1–26 portrait.

O’CURRY, or CURRY, Eugene (son of Owen or Eugene O’Curry of Dunaha near Carrigaholt, co. Clare, farmer). b. Dunaha 1796; called Owen Oge or Young Owen; worked on a farm; an assistant in Limerick county lunatic asylum to 1834; employed in the topographical and historical section of the ordnance survey in Ireland 1834–7; copied, arranged, and examined Irish manuscripts in the royal Irish academy, Trin. coll. Dublin, and elsewhere 1847; member of council of Celtic society 1852, which in 1855 published a text and translation by O’Curry of two mediæval Irish tales: Cath Mhuighe Leana (The battle of the Plain of Leana) and Tochmarc Momera (The courtship of Momera); examined the Irish manuscripts in the British Museum 1849 and 1855, and wrote the manuscript catalogue of them for the library, a folio volume of 319 pages; professor of Irish history and archæology in the newly founded Catholic univ. of Ireland 1854 to death; delivered his first course of lectures 1855–6, 21 lectures by him were published at the university’s expense 1860; made facsimile copies of a genealogical manuscript of Duald Mac Firbis 1836, and of the Book of Lismore 1839 for the R.I.A., and of the Book of Lecan and the Leabhar Breac for Trin. coll. Dublin; copied eight large vols. of 2906 pages of the ancient Irish law tracts, and wrote out 13 vols. of a rough preliminary translation; edited A collection of ancient Irish law tracts, printed in facsimile 1860; Ancient laws of Ireland 1865; author of Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history 1861; On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish, 3 vols. 1873. d. 2 Portland st. north, Dublin 30 July 1862. bur. Glasnevin cemetery. Irish monthly mag. April 1874 pp. 191–210.

ODAMS, James (son of a land steward). b. Wavenden, Bucks. 6 May 1815; apprentice to a chemist at Northampton; chemist and druggist Rye street, Bishops Stortford from 1837; one of the first to advocate use of artificial manure; assisted to send seeds to French farmers after Franco-German war 1871; erected cattle markets, on 10 acres, near Victoria dock, London, for foreign cattle to prevent contagion to English stock 1866; patented a manure made from blood and formed a company to manufacture it, called the Blood manure and nitro-phosphate co., of which he was managing director 1851; author of Why have a foreign cattle market on the Thames, and where 1866; Racks and troughs, remarks on transmission of cattle by rail 1873. d. The Grange, Bishops Stortford, Herts 6 Feb. 1881. bur. Bishops Stortford cemetery 11 Feb. Live stock journal 11 Feb. 1881 pp. 119–20; The Farmer 14 Feb. 1881 p. 253; I.L.N. 26 Feb. 1881 p. 216 portrait.

ODGER, George, (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). b. Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London; member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder of the International association; a member of the National reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for Bristol July 1870; contested Southwark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874; president of general council of international association of working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers; Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger v. the publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary Review 1870–71. d. 18 High st. Bloomsbury, London 4 March 1877. bur. Brompton cemetery 10 March. The life of George Odger (1877); London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait; W. E. Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 350–2; Graphic xv 270 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 257 (1877) portrait; Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 633–4; Littell’s Living age cxxxiii 2 (1877), a poem.

O’DOHERTY, William James. b. Dublin 1835; worked in the studio of Joseph R. Kirk, R.H.A., sculptor 1852–4; came to London 1854; exhibited under name of W. J. Dogherty at the R.A. 1857 a model in plaster of Gondoline, afterwards executed in marble for R. C. L. Bevan, the banker; sent to the R.A. the model of marble statue of Erin 1860, engraved by T. W. Knight for the Art Journal 1861; called himself Doherty 1860–1, but took name of O’Doherty 1862; exhibited 6 sculptures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1857–64; went to Rome about 1865. d. the hospital of La Charité in Berlin Feb. 1868. Art Journal (1861) 252, (1868) 73.

O’DONEL, Sir George Clendining, 5 Baronet (elder son of sir Richard Annesley O’Donel, 4 bart. 1808–78). b. Newport house, co. Mayo 15 June 1832; ensign 62 foot 22 Dec. 1848, lieut. 23 May 1851, sold out 1852; knighted by the lord lieutenant at Dublin castle 21 Feb. 1865, in compliance with the clause in the patent of baronetcy 1780; succeeded as 5 baronet 9 Nov. 1878. d. Norwood, Surrey 22 Jany. 1889.

O’DONNELL, Sir Charles Routledge (son of lieut. col. H. A. O’Donnell, C.B. of Limerick). b. 1794; ensign 2 foot 9 Sept. 1813; lieut. 15 hussars 7 Sept. 1815, major 14 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; colonel on the staff in Ireland 1843–50; col. 18 hussars 10 Sept. 1864 to death; general 2 April 1865; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem; M.R.I.A.; resided at Trugh, near Limerick. d. Donyland lodge, near Colchester 18 Nov. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 555 (1870).

O’DONNELL, John Francis (son of a shopkeeper). b. Limerick 1837; a reporter on the Manchester News 1854–6; wrote verse and prose in The Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland party 1854 to death; sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, a Clonmel paper 1856–60; on the staff of the Universal News, a weekly R.C. paper in London 1860–2; on the staff of The Nation in Dublin 1862–4, and editor of Duffy’s Hibernian Mag. 1862–4; edited the Universal News 1864–5, and sub-edited The Tablet 1865–8; contributed numerous poems advocating republican principles to the Dublin national journals under pseudonyms of Caviare and Monkton West; London correspondent of the Irish People, the organ of the Fenian movement 1864–5; sent poems to All the year round 1861–2; employed in the London office of the agent-general of New Zealand Sept. 1873 to death; author of The emerald wreath, Dublin 1865; Memoirs of the Irish Franciscans 1871. d. London 7 May 1874. bur. Kensal Green cemet. J. F. O’Donnell’s Poems (1891) memoir pp. vii–xxi; M. McDonogh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 94–8 two portraits.

O’DONNELL, Laurence, D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. d. Taylor’s hill, Galway 23 June 1855. bur. 25 June. The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855 p. 2, 27 June p. 2.

O’DONNELL, Matthew (eld. son of Richard O’Donnell of Kilkenny). b. 1813; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Westmeath 1870; author of A treatise on the law of actions in the civil bill court 1844; A commentary upon the jurisdiction of the court of the assistant barrister 1852; and with Francis Brady of An analytical digest of the cases in courts of equity in Ireland and the house of lords 1840. d. 36 Mountjoy square, Dublin 20 Jany. 1876. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin. Law Times lx 279 (1876); Irish Law Times x 61 (1876).

O’DONNELL, Patrick. b. Meeracladdy, near Derrybeg in Donegal 1835; in America 1859–79; served in Federal army during civil war; kept a public house on the Canadian frontier; sent by the Fenians to the Cape on board the Kinfauns Castle to make away with James Carey, the Fenian crown witness in the Phœnix park murders case, shot him on board the steamer Melrose between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth 29 July 1883, brought to England, tried at the Old Bailey 30 Nov., 1 Dec. 1883, hanged at Newgate 17 Dec. 1883, monument in Roman catholic cemetery Dublin. I.L.N. lxxxiii 300, 302, 545 (1883) two portraits.

O’DONOGHUE, Daniel, known as The O’Donoghue (only child of Charles James O’Donoghue O’Donoghue of the Glens, co. Kerry, d. 1833). b. 1833; educ. Stonyhurst; major of Kelly militia; M.P. Tipperary 1857–65; M.P. Tralee 1865–85; author of A letter to cardinal Manning on his expression of confidence in Mr. Parnell 1886. d. Ballsmahon court, Athlone 7 Oct. 1889. Illust. Times 16 Feb. 1867 p. 97, view of the O’Donoghue addressing the reform meeting in the Agricultural hall, London.

O’DONOGHUE, John. b. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1831, B.A. 1833; called to Irish bar 1837; contributed to the Freeman’s Journal 1838, editor of the Journal 1871; wrote many literary articles in Dublin univ. mag.; author of A book about the Irish bar in 1840; The summary jurisdiction of magistrates at the petty sessions courts in Ireland 1835; Historical memoirs of the O’Briens 1860. d. 9 Henrietta st. London 23 March 1893.

O’DONOGHUE, Patrick. b. Ireland; sentenced to death for high treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. d. New York Feb. 1854.

O’DONOVAN, Edmund (son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 13 Sept. 1844; studied medicine at Trin. coll. Dublin, clerk to the registrar and assistant librarian; contributed to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers from 1866; served in the légion etrangère of the French army Sept. 1870, took part in the battles round Orleans, was wounded and made prisoner; described in the Times and the Hour the Carlist rising in Spain 1873; correspondent of the Daily News in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1876, and in Asia Minor 1877–8; went to Merv 1879, detained there several months; author of The Merv oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian, 2 vols. 1882; went to the Soudan for the Daily News 1883, attached himself to army of Hicks Pasha which marched on Obeid, the army fell into an ambush and O’Donovan was killed 3–5 Nov. 1883, probate of his will was not granted till 1891; brass tablet designed by Herbert Johnson in memory of O’Donovan and six other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections (1892) 1–25; Graphic xxiv 609 (1881) portrait, xxviii 529 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 96 (1883) portrait, lxxxiii 532 (1883) portrait, lxxxv 576 (1884) portrait.

O’DONOVAN, John (4 son of Edmond O’Donovan, farmer, d. 29 July 1817). b. at farm of Attateemore, at foot of Tory hill, Kilkenny 9 July 1809; worked in the Irish record office 1826, and in the historical department of ordnance survey of Ireland 1829; wrote many articles in the Dublin Penny Journal 1832–3, and in the Irish Penny Journal 1840–1; student at Gray’s Inn 15 April 1844, called to Irish bar 1847; employed by the commission for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland 1852 to death; LL.D. Dublin 1850; granted civil list pension of £50, 5 June 1856; author of A grammar of the Irish language, for the use of the senior classes in the college of St. Columba 1845; Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, 7 vols. 1851. d. 36 Upper Buckingham st. Dublin 9 Dec. 1861. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin, his widow Mary Anne O’Donovan granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1863. J. T. Gilbert’s Memoir of John O’Donovan; J. O’Donovan’s Annala Rioghachta vi 2160–1 (1851); Dublin univ. mag. lix 85–8 (1862).

O’DOWD, James Klyne. b. 1802; called to Irish bar Michaelmas term 1832; solicitor for merchant shipping; assistant solicitor of customs; published The law relating to the sale of estates in Ireland 1849; Customs’ administrators and customs’ reformers, the digest of the Charlotte row committee 1851, 2 ed. 1853; The new practice of the court of chancery 1852; The merchant shipping amendment act 1863; The law and facts of the case of the Alabama 1873. d. 24 Nov. 1879. Law Times lxviii 140 (1879).

Note.—It was upon his legal advice the government declined to take steps to prevent the construction of the Alabama 1862.

O’DWYER, Andrew Carew (son of Joseph O’Dwyer of Cork and Waterford, merchant). b. 1800; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; M.P. Drogheda 15 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834, re-chosen 12 Jany. 1835 but unseated on petition 24 April 1835; secondary of Irish exchequer; connected with periodical press during agitation for Catholic relief act; author of Danger of conceding ecclesiastical securities, Concordat in the Netherlands 1829; Belgium in 1828, Ireland in 1851, 1851; The catholic question of 1851, considered 1851. d. 15 Nov. 1877. Law Times lxiv 91 (1877).

O’FARRELL, Michael Joseph. b. Limerick 2 Dec. 1832; ordained R.C. priest 18 Aug. 1855; professor of dogmatic theology in the college of the Sulpitian order in Paris; professor in the Sulpitian seminary at Montreal; pastor of St. Patrick’s church, New York, then of St. Peter’s, New York 1869–72; pastor at Rondout 1872, then at St. Peter’s again 1872–81; bishop of Trenton 1881 to death, consecrated in New York cathedral by cardinal McClosky. d. Trenton 1 or 2 April 1894.

O’FERRALL, Richard More (eld. son of Ambrose O’Ferrall of Balyna, co. Kildare 1752–1835). b. Balyna, Kildare 1797; M.P. co. Kildare 1830–47 and 1859–65; M.P. co. Longford 21 April 1851 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1835 to 28 Aug. 1839; secretary to the admiralty 4 Oct. 1839 to 9 June 1841; secretary to the treasury 9 June 1841; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1847 to 1851; P.C. 22 Nov. 1847. d. Kingstown, near Dublin 27 Oct. 1880. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of right rev. Dr. Doyle i 394, ii 110, 558 (1880).

OFFICER, Sir Robert (son of Robert Officer). b. Scotland 1800; educ. St. Andrew’s univ., B.A., M.A.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; went to Van Diemen’s Land; government medical officer for New Norfolk; practised at Hobart Town in partnership with James Wilson Agnew; assistant colonial surgeon in Van Diemen’s Land; member of the legislative council for Buckingham 1853; member of house of assembly for Glenorchy Sept. 1856 to April 1877, chairman of committees 1856–61; speaker of the house Aug. 1861 to April 1877; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Hall Green, near New Norfolk, Tasmania 8 July 1879.

OFFOR, George (son of George Offor). b. 1787; bookseller at 2 Postern row, Tower Hill, London, where he acquired a fortune; made a collection of early printed English bibles, psalters, and testaments, and a unique collection of Bunyan’s works, the greater part of his library was burnt in Sotheby’s auction rooms 29 June 1865; author of An easy introduction to reading the Hebrew language 1814; The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpation of the church 1846; edited The Hebrew psalter revised 1820; The New Testament by W. Tyndale 1836; The Pilgrim’s progress 1847 for Hanserd Knolly’s society; The Pilgrim’s progress 1856, 3 ed. 1884; The works of John Bunyan, 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1862; Profitable meditations being Christ and a sinner by J. Bunyan 1860; Little books by J. Bunyan 1873. d. Grove house, Grove st. South Hackney 4 Aug. 1864. bur. Abney Park cemet. G.M. Oct. 1864 p. 528.

O’FLAHERTY. Richard James. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; assistant surgeon in the army 9 Jany. 1835, deputy inspector general 19 July 1859, surgeon general 19 Oct. 1872 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Malabar hill, Bombay 8 Dec. 1874.

OGBORNE, Elizabeth (dau. of David Ogborne, artist). b. Chelmsford; bapt. 16 May 1759; author of The history of Essex, with notices of the most distinguished natives and engravings by Mr. Ogborne, the first volume was published in 1817, but the engraved title page is dated 1814, no more appeared; many of her manuscripts were used as waste paper, the remainder were purchased in March 1854 by Edward J. Sage, an Essex antiquary. d. Great Portland st. London 22 Dec. 1853.

OGDEN, Charles Richard (son of Isaac Ogden, judge of court of king’s bench at Montreal). b. Montreal 1791; called to bar at Montreal 1812; solicitor general of province of Lower Canada 1823, attorney general 17 Nov. 1832; barrister L.I. 22 April 1844; attorney general of Isle of Man 29 Jany. 1844 to death; registrar of Liverpool district probate court 1858 to death. d. Edge hill, near Liverpool 19 Feb. 1866.

OGDEN, J. H. b. Manchester 1829 or 1830; a singer of Irish comic songs at the Raglan and other London music halls, and in the provinces to 1861; appeared at the Canterbury music hall, and Lea’s Melodion, New York 1861; was singing in London 1862–4; returned to U.S. of America and sang at the Casino, Philadelphia, June 1864. d. 722 Sansom st. Philadelphia 11 Aug. 1864. Era 4 Sept. 1864 p. 6.

OGDEN, John. b. 1790; author of Varieties in verse, including songs for the celebration of Shakspeare’s birthday 1823; The friendly observer, or remarks and suggestions on various subjects of public interest 1851. d. 15 Dec. 1853. bur. Highgate cemetery. F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs (1872) 146.

OGDEN, John. b. Leeds 1829; apprentice to sir E. Baines, printer, Leeds; in employment of Woodfall and Kinder, printers, London 1851, manager of the works to 1866; a printer at Brewhouse yard, 172 St. John’s st. Clerkenwell, as John Ogden and co.; he worked long hours and was a proficient in all branches of his business; he printed Hart’s Army list, the A B C railway guide, the Argosy magazine, and at one time The Figaro and Whitaker’s Almanack. d. Ilkley, Yorkshire 18 July 1887. Bookseller, Aug. 1887 p. 764.

OGDEN, Jonathan Robert (only son of Robert Ogden, merchant, d. 1816). b. Leeds 13 June 1806; became a unitarian; a piano and violin player, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and August Kollman in London; studied music in Paris, Munich, and Vienna 1827; resided at Lakefield, Sawrey, Lancs. 1834 to death; composed Holy songs and musical prayers for four voices, London 1843, in which he adapted pieces by Beethoven and others as hymn tunes, these adaptations were omitted from the seventh ed. of Holy songs 1873. d. Lakefield 26 March 1882. bur. Hawkshead churchyard 31 March. Inquirer 1 April 1882 p. 207, 22 April pp. 261–2.

OGILVIE, Charles Atmore (son of John Ogilvie of Whitehaven, Cumberland, who d. 25 April 1839). b. Whitehaven 20 Nov. 1793; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1842; fellow of Balliol 1816–34, tutor 1819–30, bursar 1822, and senior dean 1842; R. of Wickford, Essex 4 Jany. 1822 to 1833; R. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1822–39; a select preacher before univ. of Oxf. 1825, 1832 and 1844; Bampton lecturer 1836; V. of Duloe, Cornwall 1833–40; R. and V. of Ross, Herefordshire 6 Dec. 1839 to death; regius professor of pastoral theology at Oxford 23 April 1842 to death; canon of Ch. Ch. 1849 to death; author of On the union of classical and mathematical studies, printed in the Oxford English prize essays, vol. iii 1836; The apostolical origin of the three orders of the christian ministry 1836; Considerations on subscription to the thirty nine articles 1845. d. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Feb. 1873. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies (1875) 43–52; Couch’s Reminiscences of Oxford (1892) 208, 422; Letters of J. B. Mozley (1885) 27, 33, 37, 142, 162, 184.

OGILVIE, George. Professor of institutes of medicine in Aberdeen univ. 1860–77; author of An introductory lecture at Marischal college and university of Aberdeen 1852; The master builders’ man, or the principles of organic architecture 1858; The genetic cycle in organic nature, or the succession of forms in the propagation of plants and animals 1859; On the forms and structure of fern stems 1859.

OGILVIE, John (son of Wm. Ogilvie, farmer). b. parish of Marnoch, Banffshire 17 April 1797; worked as a ploughman till 1818, when he lost one of his legs; a schoolmaster; entered Marischal coll. Aberdeen Oct. 1824, M.A. 1828, LL.D. 1848; mathematical master in Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen 13 May 1831 to July 1859; contributed under the signature Iota, the imitations of Horace in the Scottish dialect to the Aberdeen Mag. 1831–2; edited The imperial dictionary, English, technical, and scientific, 2 vols. 1850, Supplement 1855, new ed. 4 vols. 1882–3; The comprehensive English dictionary 1864; The students’ English dictionary 1865; An English dictionary for the use of schools 1867. d. Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1867. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 613–16.

OGILVIE, Robert Annesley. b. 1807; educ. Eton; clerk in secretary’s office, custom house, London 27 July 1827, inspector general of the waterside department 27 Aug. 1857; surveyor general of customs 1863–76; assistant comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with France 23 Jany. 1860; joint comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with Austria 16 Dec. 1865; British delegate at conference on sugar convention in London 1–12 Aug. 1872; C.B. 28 Aug. 1872; his widow Robina Ogilvie was granted a civil list pension of £100 19 June 1879. d. 24 Mecklenburgh square, London 13 May 1879.

OGILVIE, William. Cadet Bombay army 1804; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 20 June 1805, lieut. 20 Feb. 1809 to 1818; lieut. 10 N.I. 1818–20; lieut. 12 N.I. 1820; captain 26 N.I. 19 July 1821, major 26 Jany. 1838 to 27 Nov. 1844; judge advocate general 30 June 1836 to death; lieut. col. 20 N.I. 27 Nov. 1844 to 22 Dec. 1849; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 22 Dec. 1849 to death. d. Poonah 17 June 1851.

OGILVY, Alexander William. Sub-lieut. R.N. 18 March 1869; lieut. 8 April 1873, retired 13 Oct. 1876; naval knight of Windsor 6 May 1881 to death. d. 27 Aug. 1887.

OGILVY, David Steuart. Unpaid vice-consul at Gallipoli, Dardanelles 9 May 1864 to 7 July 1868; captain on the staff of French army Oct. or Nov. 1870. killed by a bullet in the forehead while charging the Germans at battle of Beaune la Rolande 28 Nov. 1870.

OGILVY, George Ramsay (son of James Ramsay). b. about 1820; assumed name of Ogilvy; member of faculty of advocates 1844; sheriff substitute of the Forfar district 25 May 1857; sheriff substitute of Dundee 16 Oct. 1860, resigned Sept. 1866. d. Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1866. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 276.

OGILVY, Sir John, 9 Baronet (1 son of admiral sir Wm. Ogilvy, d. 1823). b. Edinburgh 17 March 1803; educ. Harrow 1817–21; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 5 Nov. 1821; lieut. 2 life guards 1826–31; succeeded 1823; convenor of Forfarshire 1828 to Dec. 1889; vice lieut. of Forfarshire 1860; contested Montrose 9 March 1855; M.P. Dundee 1857–74; hon. col. 1 Dundee rifle volunteers 1865 to death; major general Royal company of archers; resided Baldoven, near Dundee. d. Archerfield, Berwickshire, the residence of his son Henry Hamilton Ogilvy 29 March 1890.

OGLANDER, Sir William, 6 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Oglander, d. 1806). b. Parnham, Dorset 13 Sept. 1769; succeeded 5 Jany. 1806; M.P. Bodmin 1807–12. d. Parnham 17 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 297 (1852); Hutchin’s Dorset i 445 (1796), iv 371 (1815).

OGLE, Sir Charles, 2 Baronet (eld. son of admiral sir Chaloner Ogle, 1 baronet 1727–1816). b. 24 May 1775; entered navy 1787; captain of the Minerva in the Mediterranean 11 Jany. 1796; captain of the Princess Augusta yacht 1806–15; R.A. 12 Aug. 1819; commander-in-chief in North America 27 April 1827 to 14 July 1830; V.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 23 Nov. 1841; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 30 Sept. 1845 to 13 Sept. 1848; admiral of the fleet 8 Dec. 1857. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 June 1858.

OGLE, Charles Chaloner (4 son of John Ogle of St. Clare, near Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent). b. 16 April 1851; matric. at univ. of London June 1869; pupil of F. W. Roper the architect; an associate of the R.I.B.A. 1872; went to Athens Aug. 1875, where he worked in office of Her Ziller the royal architect; special correspondent of the Times in the war between Turkey and Montenegro 1878; wrote letters from Montenegro, the Herzegovina, Greece, Crete, and Thessaly; knight of the order of the Redeemer; was present at battle between Turkish troops and the insurgents occupying Mont Pelion and the town of Macrynitza 28 and 29 March 1878, slept at Katochori 29 and 30 March, found dead in a ravine 1 April. bur. the Piræus, Athens 10 April. Streit’s Mémoire concernant les détails du meutre de Charles Ogle (1878); Times 2, 10, 11, 25 April, 19 June 1878; Graphic xvii 401 (1878) portrait; I.L.N. 13 April 1878 pp. 329, 330 portrait.

OGLE, Sir Edmund, 6 baronet (3 son of rev. James Ogle, V. of Crondale, Hants 1778–1833). b. 20 Sept. 1816; 2 lieut. R.E. 9 June 1834, colonel 6 July 1867, col. commandant 11 Feb. 1883 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; succeeded his cousin as 6 baronet 2 Dec. 1885. d. Schallbach 14 June 1887.

OGLE, Harmon Chaloner (1 son of Nathaniel Ogle of Orpington, Kent). b. 1843; educ. Magdalen coll. Oxf., demy 1861–5, fellow 1865–87, usher 1866–7, tutor 1868–71, junior dean of arts 1868, bursar 1870, schoolmaster 1876–86; B.A. 1865, M.A. 1868; took the Ireland 1863, Craven 1866, Denyer and Johnson 1868, scholarships; warden Queen’s coll. Birmingham Aug. 1873 to 1874; master Worcester cathedral school 1874–6; R. of Tubney, Berks. 1886 to death; with Thomas Clayton published Select pieces for translation into Latin prose 1879; offered to go as a missionary in the archbishop’s mission to Assyria, was studying Assyrian preparatory to sailing in Aug. 1887. d. Queen’s hotel, Leeds 25 June 1887.

OGLE, James Adey (son of Richard Ogle, general practitioner). b. Great Russell st. London 22 Oct. 1792; educ Eton 1808–10; commoner Trin. coll. Oxf. 1810, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, M.B. 1817, M.D. 1820; studied at Edinb. univ., at St. George’s hospital, and at Windmill st. school of medicine London 1813, and in France, Italy, and Germany from 1814; physician at Oxford about 1819 to death; mathematical tutor of Trin. coll. 1820; F.R.C.P. 1 April 1822, Harveian orator 1844; physician to Radcliffe infirmary and to Warneford lunatic asylum Oxford 1824; Aldrich professor of medicine in univ. of Oxf. 1824–57, and clinical professor of medicine 1830–57; regius professor of physic 28 Oct. 1851 to death; obtained the institution of a public examination for the degree of M.D. 1835; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1826; pres. of provincial medical assoc. at Oxford meeting 1852; examiner in new school of natural science 1854–5; author of A letter to the warden of Wadham college, on the system of education pursued at Oxford 1841; Oratio in collegii Regalis medicorum Londinensis ædibus novis habita 1844. d. Old Shoreham vicarage, residence of his son-in-law James Bowling Mozley 25 Sept. 1857. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemet. Oxford. Munk’s College of physicians iii 245 (1878); Medical circular i 281 (1852) portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. ii 55 (1858).

OGLE, Octavius (4 son of James Adey Ogle 1792–1857). b. 1829; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1846–52; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Lincoln coll. 1852–9, tutor and claviger 1853, Greek lecturer 1855, librarian 1854, sub-rector 1855, moderator 1854; public examiner 1879–80, master of the schools 1863; clerk of the market; a representative of the university in Oxford city council; chaplain of Warneford asylum, Oxford 1864; edited Copy-book of sir A. Paulet’s letters 1866 for Roxburgh club; with W. H. Bliss Calendar of the Clarendon state papers 1872, vol. i; author of Idylls of Ilium 1887; wrote The Oxford market in Oxford Hist. Soc. Collectanea, 2 series 1890. d. 19 Park crescent, Oxford 27 June 1894. The Times 30 June 1894 p. 14.

OGLE, Thomas. b. 1794; entered R.N. 25 Jany. 1809; aide de camp to capt. lord Amelius Beauclerk in Walcheren expedition 1809; served in operations on coast of America 1812; captain 28 June 1838; while on the Southampton, 50 guns, forced the entrance into Port Natal, and by landing troops rescued a detachment surrounded by Africans 1842; admiral 10 Sept. 1869; knight of Brazilian order of the Southern cross. d. Beaumaris, North Wales 27 Dec. 1886. The Times 30 Dec. 1886 p. 5.

O’GORMAN, Daniel. Educ. Belfast college; author of Intuitive arithmetic, Newcastle, 3 ed. 1849, 26 ed. 1885; The prince of Wales’s new table book 1859; A chronological record, containing the remarkable events from the creation of the world to the present time, Manchester 1860, 3 ed. 1865. drowned in the “London” in the bay of Biscay on his voyage to Melbourne 11 Jany. 1866.

O’GORMAN, James Michael. b. co. Limerick 1809; a Trappist monk 1828; founded Trappist monastery of New Milleray, near Dubuque, Iowa, of which he became prior; vicar apostolic of Nebraska 1859 to death; consecrated bishop of Raphanea in partibus infidelium 8 May; established a hospital and asylum, and founded academies and Indian missions. d. Cincinnati, Ohio 4 July 1874.

O’GORMAN, Judge Richard. Concerned in Smith O’Brien’s rising in Ireland 1848; fled to United States. d. New York about 28 Feb. 1895.

O’GORMAN, Nicholas Purcell (only child of James O’Gorman of Ennis 1717–87). Called to Irish bar 1803; Q.C. 13 July 1835; chairman and assistant barrister, co. Kilkenny to death. d. Dublin 31 Dec. 1857.

O’GORMAN, Purcell (2 son of the preceding). b. 1820; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840; 2 lieut. Ceylon regiment 3 Feb. 1843; lieut. 90 foot 9 Dec. 1845, captain 2 April 1852, sold out 17 Aug. 1855; served in Crimean war 1854–5; M.P. Waterford 1874–80. d. Springfield, co. Kilkenny 24 Nov. 1888.

O’GRADY, Hayes (son of Darby O’Grady of Mount Prospect, Limerick). b. 1787; entered navy 4 Dec. 1802; present at reduction of Cape of Good Hope, and in the expedition to the Rio de la Plata; captain 7 June 1814; R.A. 1 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 15 Jany. 1862. d. Erinagh house, co. Clare 8 July 1864.

O’GRADY, Michael. b. Roscommon, Ireland 1821; resided in London; sent to Sydney, N.S.W. to establish a branch of the People’s provident soc. 1855; connected with an insurance office in Melbourne 1856; member for Villiers and Heytesbury in legislative assembly of Victoria from 1861; commissioner for public works 6 May to 11 July 1868, and from 19 June 1871 to 10 June 1872; created by the Pope a knight of St. Gregory 1871. d. Hawthorne, near Melbourne 1875.

O’GRADY, Michael Martin. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. 1818; M.R.I.A.; in practice at Malahide, co. Dublin; member of botanical committee of Royal Dublin soc.; invented an instrument for removal of uterine polypi. d. La Mancha, Malahide 1858.

OGSTON, Francis (3 son of Alexander Ogston an Aberdeen soap manufacturer). b. Aberdeen July 1803; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; graduated M.D. Edinb. univ. 1824; physician at Aberdeen; began to teach chemistry privately 1827; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Marischal coll. 1839, and professor of medical jurisprudence 1857–60; professor of medical jurisprudence univ. of Aberdeen 1860–83; police surgeon in Aberdeen from 1831; medical officer of health for the city 1862–81; dean of the faculty of medicine in Aberdeen; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1885; author of Lectures on medical jurisprudence 1878. d. 13 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sept. 1887. E. H. B. Rodgers’s Aberdeen Doctors (1893) 201, 301, 312.

O’HAGAN, Thomas O’Hagan, 1 Baron (only son of Edward O’Hagan of Belfast, merchant 1779–1836). b. Belfast 29 May 1812; educ. Belfast academical institution; student of King’s inns, Dublin Nov. 1831, and bencher 1859; student of Gray’s inn Jany 1834, and hon. bencher 21 Dec. 1883; pupil of Thomas Chitty, special pleader; called to Irish bar Jany. 1836, went north-east circuit; edited the Newry Examiner 1836–40; defended C. G. Duffy, one of the repeal leaders 1843–4; assistant barrister of co. Longford 1847–57, and of co. Dublin 1857; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; third serjeant-at-law 1859; solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1860 to 1861; attorney general Feb. 1861 to 1865; P.C. Ireland 1861; member of board of national education 1858; M.P. Tralee May 1863 to Jany. 1865; judge of Irish court of common pleas Jany. 1865 to Dec. 1868; lord chancellor of Ireland Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, the first Roman catholic chancellor since the reign of James II, lord chancellor again May 1880, resigned Nov. 1881; created baron O’Hagan of Tullahogue, co. Tyrone 14 June 1870; an original member of the intermediate education board 1878, the first vice-chairman; a senator of royal univ. of Ireland 1880, and vice-chancellor 1880 to death; K.P. 17 Jany. 1882; author of Occasional papers and addresses 1884; Selected speeches and arguments, ed. by George Teeling 1885. d. Hereford house, Park st. London 1 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, statue by Farrell in the Four courts, Dublin. O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 314–44 portrait; Pump court ii 126 (1884) portrait; I.L.N. xlvi 296 (1865) portrait, liv 385, 446 (1869) portrait; The Period 2 July 1870 p. 91 portrait; Illustrated Times 4 Feb. 1865 p. 68 portrait.

O’HAGAN, John (2 son of John Arthur O’Hagan of Newry, co. Down). b. Newry 19 March 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1865; called to Irish bar 1842, went Munster circuit; a leader of the Young Ireland party; comr. of board of national education 1861; chairman of quarter sessions at Westmeath 1864–70, at Leitrim 1870–2, and at Clare 1872–8; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of King’s inns 1878; third serjeant 31 May 1881; county court judge; judicial comr. under the Land law (Ireland) act of 1881, with rank of justice of high court of justice Sept. 1881 to death; contributed many poems to The Nation newspaper, which are collected in The spirit of the nation, Dublin 1874; author of A lecture on Chaucer in Afternoon lectures on literature and art 1863; The song of Roland 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson 1887; The children’s ballad rosary 1890; Joan of Arc 1893. d. Howth, Dublin 12 Nov. 1890. D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1893) 188; Irish Law Times xxiv 578–9 (1890); Academy ii 476 (1890).

O’HALLORAN, Henry Dunn. Ensign 69 foot 1 Nov. 1818, captain 1 Sept. 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Feb. 1853; major depôt battalion 2 March 1855; lieut. col. 1 West India foot 26 March 1858 to 16 March 1860, when he retired on full pay; M.G. 25 June 1866; author of Volunteer equipments in war 1861. d. Bath 30 Sept. 1871, aged 71.

O’HALLORAN, Thomas Shuldham (2 son of sir Joseph O’Halloran, G.C.B. 1763–1843). b. Berhampore, Bengal 25 Oct. 1797; educ. Marlow 1808, and at Sandhurst; ensign Royal West Middlesex militia 1809; ensign 17 foot 2 Feb. 1813, lieut. 1817–22; served during Nepaul war 1814–6, and Deccan war 1817–8; lieut. 44 foot 1822–7; captain 99 foot 27 April 1827; captain 56 foot 6 March 1828; captain 6 foot 19 Feb. 1829; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Saugor, Central India June 1830 to Jany. 1831, placed on h.p. Oct. 1834; captain 97 foot 27 April 1837, sold out 9 March 1838; suppressed the riots in Yorkshire 1837; settled near Adelaide, South Australia 1838; a justice of the peace 2 Feb. 1839; major commandant of South Australia militia 26 Feb. 1840; comr. of police 8 June 1840, resigned 12 April 1843; commanded expeditions against the natives 1840 and 1841; senior non-official member of the nominee council 1843–51; contested Noarlunga district 1851, and Sturt 1855; lieut. col. of the volunteer military force 1854; member of legislative council 1857, resigned 1863. d. Lizard lodge, O’Halloran Hill, near Adelaide 16 Aug. 1870.

O’HARA, Henry. Called to the Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The cotton plant and the countries adapted to its culture, Manchester 1862. d. 19 Nov. 1884.

O’HARA, Robert (only son of John O’Hara of Raheen, co. Galway). b. Dublin 1836; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; called to Irish bar 1860; parliamentary draftsman to Irish office in London several years; a member of statute law revision commission; author of a series of letters in The Times upon the Irish land question. d. Ostend 21 Sept. 1885. Law Times 7 Nov. 1885 p. 16.

O’HEA, James (3 son of John O’Hea of Greenfield, Clonakilty, co. Cork). b. 1809; educ. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1831; called to bar 1838; crown prosecutor for co. of Limerick 1860 to death, and for county and city of Cork 1849 to death; a follower of D. O’Connell. d. Harcourt st. Dublin 27 May 1882. Law Times 17 June 1882 p. 129.

O’HEA, Michael (son of James O’Hea of Woodfield, parish of Rosscarbery). b. Woodfield 12 Aug. 1808; studied at college of Picpus, Paris 3 years, at college of Larochefoucauld, and grand séminaire of Angoulême and Irish college, Paris; sub-deacon, deacon, and priest 1834; held curacies in Ireland 1835–50; parish priest of Rosscarbery 20 April 1850; vicar general of Ross 2 Feb. 1851; bishop of Ross 28 Sept. 1857 to death, consecrated in parish church of Skibbereen 7 Feb. 1858; visited Rome 1862, 1867 and 1869. d. Ross August 1877. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 113 (1876).

O’HEA, Miss, known as “Elena Norton.” Composed operetta of ‘The rose and the ring’; In a valley far away, ballad 1876; Gather ye rosebuds, song 1878. d. Southsea boarding house, West Cliff road, Bournemouth west, early in March 1880. Athenæum i 419 (1880).

OKE, George Colwell (son of Wm. Jane Oke d. Truro July 1859). b. St. Columb Major, Cornwall 8 Feb. 1821; accountant in a solicitor’s office; assistant clerk to Newmarket bench of justices 1848; assistant clerk at the Mansion House, London 1855–64, chief clerk 1864 to death; author of The synopsis of summary convictions 1848, 2 ed. under title of The Magisterial synopsis 1849, 14 ed. 1893; An improved system of solicitors’ book keeping 1849; The Magisterial formulist 1850, 7 ed. 1893; The laws of turnpike roads 1854, 2 ed. 1861; A handy book of the game and fishery laws 1861, 2 ed. 1863; The laws as to licensing inns 1872, 2 ed. 1874. d. Rosedale, St. Mary’s road, Peckham, Surrey 9 Jany. 1874. bur. Nunhead cemet. 15 Jany. Law Journal ix, 38 (1874); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 409, 1296 (1874–8); I.L.N. lxiv 80 (1874) portrait; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait.

O’KEEFE, Adelaide D. (only dau. of John O’Keefe, dramatist 1747–1833). b. Eustace st. Dublin 5 Nov. 1776; contributed 34 poems to Taylor’s Original poems for infant minds, by several young persons, 2 vols. 1804, her pieces are signed Adelaide; author of Original poems calculated to improve the mind of youth and to allure it to virtue, Part i 1808; National characters 1808; Patriarchal times, or the land of Canaan, 2 vols. 1811, 6 ed. 1842; Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a narrative founded on history, 2 vols. 1814; A trip to the coast, poems 1819; Dudley, 3 vols. 1819; Poems for young children 1849; The broken sword, a tale 1854; she was living at 3 Spring place hill, Southampton in April 1848. d. about 1855. Athenæum 5 Dec. 1874 p. 762; N. and Q. 7 May 1887 p. 361, 18 June p. 503.

O’KEEFE, Eugene. b. Cork; educ. St. Francis Xavier college, and at the Sulpitian college, Montreal; attached to the household of the bishop of Toronto until 1864; in charge of a parish in New Jersey; a great linguist and classical scholar. d. New York 22 Sept. 1880.

O’KEEFE, John (son of Patrick O’Keefe of Abbeyville). b. Waterford 1827; educ. Clongowes coll.; sheriff of Waterford 1865; M.P. Dungarvan 1874 to death; resided Mountain castle, Cappoquin. d. Stephen’s Green club, Dublin 10 June 1877.

O’KEEFE, Mathias. b. 1830; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1860; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; librarian Queen’s coll. Cork 1855–75; examiner in the Royal university; employed as an analyst in criminal cases; professor of materia medica at Queen’s coll. Cork and lecturer on medical jurisprudence 1875 to death. d. 17 St. Patrick’s hill, Cork 19 May 1884. Medical Times 24 May 1884 p. 719.

O’KEEFE, Robert. b. Callan, co. Kilkenny; chaplain to a convent in Kilkenny, removed by Dr. Walsh, bishop of Ossory 1849; priest at Rathdowney to 1863; parish priest of Callan 1863; attempted to establish a community of nuns from Beziers in France May 1869, but Dr. Walsh refused his sanction; tried to make the National school at Callan a school for higher education, named it the Callan academy, and sought to make French the normal language of the school; brought actions for libel against his bishop, suspended Oct. 1870; suspended from all ecclesiastical functions by cardinal Cullen, acting under authority from the Pope 13 Nov. 1871; brought an action against the cardinal in queen’s bench Ireland, obtained one farthing damages 27 May 1873; submitted to the Cardinal May 1876; author of Ultramontanism versus civil and religious liberty 1875. d. 2 Feb. 1881. The Callan case 1872; Cardinal Cullen and the P. P. Callan 1872; Court of queen’s bench, R. O’Keefe against cardinal Cullen 1874; Ultramontanism versus education, the case of Father O’Keefe 1875; The Dublin review July 1873 pp. 211–38; Irish reports Common law series vii 319–444 (1874).

O’KELLY, Joseph (2 son of Matthias Joseph O’Kelly, conchologist). b. Dublin 31 Oct. 1832; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860; employed on the geological survey of Ireland 1854; secretary to the survey Oct. 1865 to death; wrote many geological memoirs, published by the survey; M.R.I.A. 1866. d. 13 April 1883. Geological Mag. (1883) 288.

OKES, Richard (19 child of Thomas Verney Okes of Cambridge, surgeon). b. Cambridge 25 Dec. 1797; educ. Eton and King’s coll. Camb., scholar 1817, fellow 1820–6, Browne’s medallist 1819–21; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1848; master at Eton 1823–38, lower master 1838–50, member of the governing body; provost of King’s coll. Camb. Nov. 1850 to death, abandoned the old regulations and obtained for the college a high rank in the university; vice-chancellor 1851; gave with Dr. Hawtrey the heraldic window in the school museum at Eton; chairman of Cambridge water co. 1858–87; edited Musæ Etonenses, new series 1796–1833, 2 vols. 1859–69; author of Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata et in curia Cantabrigiensis recitata 1819, 1820 and 1820, 3 vols. d. The lodge, King’s coll. Cambridge 25 Nov. 1888. bur. King’s college chapel. Saturday Review lxvi 647–8 (1888).

OKEY, Charles Henry (son of Henry Okey). b. 7 April 1797; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1805 and at Heidelberg univ.; barrister I.T. 9 May 1823; private sec. to lord Stuart de Rothesay, when ambassador to France 1828–30; counsel to British embassy at Paris; police magistrate Antigua 1862, puisne justice and member of council Aug. 1863; knight of legion of honor; author of Droit d’ Aubaine de la Grande Britaine, Paris 1830, 2 ed. 1831; A concise digest of the law affecting the commercial and civil intercourse of the subjects of Great Britain and France, 2 ed. 1829, 6 ed. 1842. d. 1876.

OKEY, Elizabeth. b. 1824; she and her sister Jane, b. 1826, were cured of epileptic fits by Dr. John Elliotson by mesmerism; they were experimented on by Dr. Elliotson at his residence in Conduit st. Hanover sq. London 1842, before audiences, when he made them do many wonderful things in a mesmeric state; E. Okey was an inmate of University college hospitals under Dr. John Elliotson from April 1837; she developed a power of seeing spirits sitting on the beds of patients who were about to die, which had a baneful effect on all the patients; turned out of the the hospital 28 Dec. 1838. T. Wakley’s Undeniable facts concerning practices of Dr. Elliotson with E. & J. Okey (1842); The Lancet 5 Jany. 1839 pp. 561–2, 590–7.

OLD, John. b. Totnes 1829; studied under John and Edward Loder 1842, and at Royal academy of music under sir W. S. Bennett, and afterwards under Thalberg and Molique; conductor of Torquay choral soc. 1855–9; settled at Reading 1859, where he founded the Layston college of music, which had 200 pupils; composer of The seventh seal, a sacred drama 1853; The battle, a dramatic solo and chorus 1854; Herne, a legend of royal Windsor, an opera in 3 acts, libretto by E. Oxenford 1879, performed at Reading; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces of music 1849–79; he also contributed essays to The Monthly musical record. d. Reading 4 Feb. 1892.

OLDAKER, William Fitzhardinge (son of Tom Oldaker, huntsman). b. Woodbank, Gerrard’s Cross 1810; a saddler at Finsbury and Upper Brook street, London, his hunting saddles were in much request; a dealer in horses; rode in a steeplechase 1838; managed the stag hunting establishments of barons Lionel and Nathaniel Rothschild; ran a match with John Darby at Horncastle; retired and lived at Gerrard’s cross, Middlesex; resided at Newbold-on-Avon near Rugby 1865, where he hunted with all the neighbouring packs; retired to Woodbank, Chester 1880. d. Woodbank 6 Sept. 1884. W. Day’s Turf Celebrities (1891) 107–16; Baily’s Mag. xliii 121–2 (1885).

OLDFIELD, John (only son of John Nicholls Oldfield, lieutenant in royal marines, d. 1793). b. Portsmouth 29 May 1789; 2 lieut. R.E. 2 April 1806, captain 26 Jany. 1815, placed on h.p. April 1819; served at battle of Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; commanded the R.E. in Newfoundland Sept. 1830 to Oct. 1835, in Jersey Oct. 1835 to March 1839, and in Canada March 1839 to 1843, where he served during the rebellion; K.H. 23 July 1830; A.D.C. to the queen 9 Nov. 1841; colonel R.E. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 25 Oct. 1859 to death; commanded the R.E. in Ireland 1848–54; general 3 April 1862; contributed Memoranda on the use of asphalte to the Professional papers of the corps of the R.E., new series, vols. 3 and 5. d. Oldfield lawn, Emsworth, Sussex 2 Aug. 1863. bur. Westbourne.

OLDHAM, James. b. 17 Jany. 1817; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1865; in practice at 53 Norfolk square, Brighton 1842–80; a founder of the Brighton and Sussex medical chirurgical soc. 1847, president; purchased and supported a coffee tavern; chief supporter of St. Christopher’s home for sick children at Hayward’s Heath. d. Lucastes, Hayward’s Heath 26 Dec. 1881. Lancet i 40 (1882).

OLDHAM, James (son of a millwright). b. Hull 23 June 1801; at sea in the Baltic 1815–7; an apprentice to his father 1817; built a movable bridge for Hull corporation; reclaimed for the commissioners of woods and forests 700 acres in the estuary of the Humber 1850; government inspector of steamers for Hull; gave evidence before parliamentary committee on public works connected with Hull; wrote a paper on the Reclamation of land from seas and estuaries, for which he obtained Council premium of Institution of Civil engineers 1862; superintended tidal observations on the Humber, Trent and Ouse for British Association 1862–4; took George Bohn into partnership 1874, made the Hull and Barnsley railway and the Alexandra dock; M.I.C.E. 28 Jany. 1834. d. Hull 10 June 1890. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 377–80 (1891).

OLDHAM, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Oldham). b. Dublin 4 May 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin 1832, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846, LL.D. 1874; chief geological assistant in ordnance survey of Ireland 1839, surveyed counties of Kerry and Tyrone 1843; assistant professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, professor of geology 1845–51; president of Dublin geological society 1846; local director for Ireland of geological survey of the United Kingdom 1846; discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, co. Wicklow, the fossils or organic marks named after him Oldhamia 1849; superintendent of geological survey of India Nov. 1850, retired 1876; M.R.I.A. 1842; F.G.S. 1843; F.R.S. 9 June 1848, royal medallist 1875; member of royal Asiatic society of Bengal 1857, president four times; author of On the geological structure of part of the Khasi hills 1854; Memoirs of the geological survey of India, Palentologia Indica 1861; Memoranda on the result of an examination of the salt range in the Punjab 1864; Catalogue of the meteoric stones in the museum of the Geological survey of India 1865, 2 ed. 1868; Catalogue of the organic remains belonging to the echinodermata 1865; edited Records of the Geological survey of India 1868 etc. d. 18 Hillmorton’s road, Rugby 17 July 1878. Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv 46–8 (1879); Geological Mag. (1878) 382.

OLDHAM, Wilton. b. 1835; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A., LL.B. and LL.D. 1865; of Bengal civil service; magistrate at Ghazipore; C. of St. Michael, Louth 1878–80; C. of Stoke Bishop, Bristol 1880 to death; author of Historical and statistical memoir of Ghazipore 2 vols. 1870–6; Tenant right and auction sales in Ghazipore 1873. d. St. Servan, France 2 Oct. 1883.

OLDKNOW, Sir James (son of John Oldknow). b. Nottingham 1821; a lace manufacturer; alderman of Nottingham, mayor 1869, 1878, and 1879; after the visit of the prince and princess of Wales to open the Castle Art museum, knighted at Osborne 14 Aug. 1878. d. Villa road, Nottingham 4 Jany. 1888.

OLDKNOW, Joseph (son of Octavius Oldknow mayor of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 16 March 1809; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; D.D. of Hartford univ. U.S. of America 1857; V. of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, Birmingham 1841 to death; leader of high church party in Birmingham, established daily services and the observance of saints’ day 1841; he was libelled by marks put on the copper coins, such as ‘Oldknow is a papist and has pay from Rome,’ others were marked ‘No surplice,’ and such coins were at times thrown through the windows into the church during service time; the first in Birmingham to establish early weekly communion and harvest festivals; author of The catholic church, its nature, constitution and privileges 1839; A letter on the relations of the church of England to the church of Rome and the protestant bodies 1848; A month in Portugal 1855; The validity of the holy orders in the church of England 1857; Anti-ritual proceedings, a letter to the clergy of the rural deanery of Birmingham 1866; Sermons on various points of doctrine and practice 1868; and with A. D. Crake The priest’s book of private devotion 1872, 4 ed. 1891. d. Birmingham 3 Sept. 1874. bur. Holy Trinity churchyard. Guide to the church congress (1883) 54–5.

O’LEARY, Daniel Florence. Served in the war of Colombian independence, general of brigade; aide-de-camp to general Bolivar 1819–27; British consul at Puerto Cabello 11 Aug. 1841; chargé d’ affaires and consul general in New Granada 28 Nov. 1843 to death. d. 24 Feb. 1854.

O’LEARY, Ellen (dau. of a shopkeeper). b. Tipperary 1831; contributed verse to The Commercial journal, The Irishman, The Shamrock, and to the Irish People newspaper Nov. 1863 to 15 Sept. 1865, when the paper was seized by the government; assisted James Stephens, chief organiser of the Irish republic, in directing the affairs of the Fenian organisation; raised £200 on a mortgage of her property to help Stephens to escape from Ireland 1866; resided in Tipperary 1866–85, and with her brother John O’Leary in Dublin from 1885. d. Cork 16 Oct. 1889. Ellen O’Leary’s Lays of country, home and friends (1891) portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century (1893) 449–58; Irish Monthly xvii 83–94 (1889); Academy xl 70 (1891).

O’LEARY, William Hagerty (son of Thomas O’Leary of Charleston road, co. Dublin). b. 16 June 1839; educ. catholic univ. Ireland, gold medallist; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1861, F.R.C.S. Ireland 1871; professor of anatomy and physiology at Sedwick school of medicine 1872–4; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin to 1874; M.P. Drogheda 5 Feb. 1874 to death; wrote on Original researches on the sources of animal heat; New theory on the functions of iron in the blood; Food, its relation to animal heat and muscular motion; received a treasury grant to assist him in prosecuting investigations in scientific philosophy. d. 1 Cottage green, Camberwell, London 15 Feb. 1880.

OLIPHANT, Sir Anthony (3 son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Perth, d. 1807). b. Condie 1793; educ. Hyde Abbey school; advocate Edinburgh; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; attorney general, Cape of Good Hope 1826–38; chief justice of Ceylon 22 Oct. 1838, retired on a pension 1855; knighted by patent 7 Aug. 1839; C.B. 27 April 1848. d. London 9 March 1859. Gent. Mag. vi 429 (1859).

OLIPHANT, Francis Romano (younger son of the succeeding). b. Rome Oct.-Dec. 1859; educ. Eton, at Balliol coll. Oxf. and at New Inn hall; B.A. 1883; assistant to R. R. Holmes in the royal library at Windsor castle; contributed frequently to The Spectator and other periodicals; assisted his mother M. O. Oliphant in the preparation of her Victorian age of literature 1892; author of Notes of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land 1891. d. about 4 Oct. 1894. Times 5 Oct. 1894 p. 3, 13 Oct. p. 6.

Note.—His elder brother Cyril Francis Oliphant, b. 1856, educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1883, published in 1890 in the Foreign classics series A biography and criticism of the work of Alfred de Musset, he d. 1890.

OLIPHANT, Francis Wilson (son of Thomas Oliphant of Edinburgh). b. Newcastle 31 Aug. 1818; educ. Edinburgh academy of art; designer of painted glass in the works of Messrs. Wailes of Newcastle; worked with Welby Pugin in London, especially upon the painted windows in new houses of parliament; sent in a cartoon to the competition for the decoration of Westminster Hall; exhibited the Prodigal son nearing home and 4 other pictures at R.A. 1849–55; produced the windows in the ante-chapel of King’s college, Cambridge, those in the chancel of Aylesbury church, and designed the famous choristers’ window in Ely cathedral; author of A plea for painted glass 1855. d. Rome Oct. 1859.

OLIPHANT, Henry William. b. 1822; connected with Drury lane theatre 1842–46; edited Weekly Despatch; edited Sunday Times to death; resided 8 Brigstock road, Croydon. d. Clapham, London 5 March 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 March.

OLIPHANT, Laurence (only child of sir Anthony Oliphant 1793–1859). b. Capetown 1829; private secretary to his father in Ceylon 1848; called to the bar in Ceylon; barrister Lincoln’s Inn 30 April 1855; secretary to lord Elgin during negotiation at Washington of reciprocity treaty with Canada 1854; superintendent of Indian affairs at Quebec 1854; went to the Crimea with lord Stratford de Redcliffe 1855; joined the force under Omar Pasha, present at battle of the Ingour 6 Nov. 1855, was correspondent of The Times during this expedition; a candidate for Stirling 1855; private secretary to lord Elgin in China and Japan 1857–9; first secretary of legation in Japan, arrived at Yeddo June 1861, severely wounded by a Japanese 5 July, returned to England; started with sir Algernon Borthwick and others a journal called The Owl 1864, contributed to the first ten numbers; M.P. the Stirling burghs 13 July 1865 to April 1868; joined the community of The Brotherhood of the New Life, of which Thomas Lake Harris was the leader, at Brockton Junction or Salem-on-Erie, Chautauqua county, United States of America 1867, where he gave all his money to the community and was employed in very menial occupations; Times correspondent in the Franco-German war 1870–71; m. June 1872 at St. George’s, Hanover sq. London, Alice, dau. of Henry le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk (she d. at Haifa, Syria 2 Jany. 1886 aged 40), returned with his wife and mother to Brockton by Harris’s orders 1873; recovered his land at Brockton by legal proceedings from Harris May 1881; resided a great deal at Mount Carmel, Palestine from 1882; m. (2) at Malvern 16 Aug. 1888 Rosamond Dale, dau. of Robert Dale Owen; author of A journey to Khatmandu 1852; The Russian shores of the Black Sea 1853; The Trans-Caucasian campaign under Omar Pasha, a personal narrative 1856; Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the years 1857–8–9, 2 vols. 1859; Patriots and filibusters incidents of political and exploratory travel 1860; Universal suffrage and Napoleon the Third 1860; Piccadilly, a fragment of contemporary biography 1870, 5 ed. 1874; The land of Gilead with excursions in the Lebanon 1880; The land of Khemi, up and down the Middle Nile 1882; Traits and travesties 1882; Altiora Peto, 2 vols. 1883; Massollam, 3 vols. 1886; Episodes in a life of adventure 1887; Fashionable philosophy 1887; The star in the east 1887; Scientific religion 1888; author with Alice Oliphant of Sympneumata 1885. d. at residence of sir M. G. Duff, York house, Richmond road, Twickenham 23 Dec. 1888. M. O. W. Oliphant’s Memoir of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice, his wife, 2 vols. (1891) with portraits; L. Liesching’s Personal reminiscences of L. Oliphant (1891); R. Mac Cully’s Brotherhood of the new life (1893) 146–61; The Times 21 Jany. 1886 p. 7, 23 Jany. p. 10.

Note.—He is described under name of Cyril Gordon in Haskett Smith’s novel For God and humanity, a romance of Mount Carmel, 3 vols. 1891, the dedication is inscribed ‘To the memory of my beloved friend Laurence Oliphant.’

OLIPHANT, Thomas (son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Strathearn, Perthshire). b. Condie 25 Dec. 1799; educ. Winchester; member of the stock exchange, London a short time; member of the Madrigal society 1830, adapted for the use of its members English words to Italian madrigals, honorary secretary of the society many years, president 1871; sang as a bass vocalist in the chorus at the Handel festival, Westminster Abbey 1834; engaged cataloguing the music at British museum some years; wrote English versions of Beethoven’s Fidelio and the Mount of Olives, and the words for many songs; author of Comments of a chorus singer at the royal musical festival in Westminster abbey. By Solomon Sackbut 1834; A brief account of the Madrigal society 1835; A short account of madrigals 1836; La musa madrigalesia 1837; In C. E. Pascoe’s Everyday life in our public schools 1881 he wrote the section Life among the Oppidans, Eton pp. 37–62; edited and arranged Catches and rounds by Old Composers 1835; Ditties of the olden time 1835; Ten favourite madrigals 1836; German songs adapted to English words, two series, Nos. 1 to 40, 1838–49; Six ancient part songs for five voices 1845; Six English songs 1847; Select German and English vocal duets 1849; Phœbe and Corydon by W. Croft 1853; National and popular ballads 1863; his name is attached to upwards of 70 pieces, chiefly of arranged music 1835–73. d. Great Marlborough st. London 9 March 1873, his collection of ancient music sold by Puttick and Simpson April 24–6.

OLIPHANT, William. b. Edinburgh 14 Jany. 1807; bookseller as Wm. Oliphant & co. 7 South Bridge, Edinburgh 1831 to death. d. 21 Buccleuch place, Edinb. 13 Nov. 1860. Bookseller Dec. 1860 p. 908.

OLIVEIRA, Benjamin (3 son of Dominick Oliveira of Madeira, then of London, merchant, naturalised by R.L. 30 Aug. 1811, and d. 1846). b. England 24 June 1806; contested Reading 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Pontefract 8 July 1852 to 20 March 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; revived the Star club 1830, president 1831 to death, in 1855 sir F. G. Moon the lord mayor conferred on the club a charter constituting it The Star club of London; author of Wine duties reduction, committee proceedings 1861; A few observations on the works of the isthmus of Suez canal 1863; A visit to the Spanish camp in Morocco during the late war 1863. d. 8 Upper Hyde Park st. London 28 Sept. 1865. Memorials of Star club of London (1860) memoir and portrait; G. M. xix 658 (1865); I.L.N. xxii 277, 278 (1853) portrait.

OLIVER, Emma Sophia (dau. of W. Eburne of Rathbone place, London, coachbuilder). b. 15 Aug. 1819; exhibited 34 landscapes at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. 1842–74; member of New society of painters in water-colours 1849; m. 1840 Wm. Oliver landscape painter 1804–53; m. (2) about 1856 John Sedgwick of Watford, Herts, solicitor, b. 1812, d. 23 Oct. 1882. She d. Brewery house, Great Berkhamstead 15 March 1885. Clayton’s English female artists ii 227–30 (1876).

OLIVER, George. b. Newington, Butts, Surrey 9 Feb. 1781; educ. Sedgley park, Staffs. and Stonyhurst college 11 years; ordained at Durham May 1806; served the mission of the society of Jesus at St. Nicholas, Exeter Oct. 1807 to 6 Oct. 1851, but never became a member of the society; hon. member of Historical society of Boston 30 March 1843; created D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI 15 Sept. 1844; provost of the chapter of Plymouth 1852–7; author of Historic collections relating to the monasteries in Devon 1820; The history of Exeter 1821, 2 ed. 1861; Ecclesiastical antiquities in Devon, 3 vols. 1840–2; Collections towards illustrating the biography of the Scotch, English and Irish members of the society of Jesus 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Merrye Englaunde or the golden daies of goode queene Besse 1841, anon.; Monasticon diœcesis Exoniensis, a collection of records illustrating conventual, collegiate and eleemosynary foundations in the counties of Cornwall and Devon and a supplement 1846, additional supplement 1854; Collections illustrative of the history of the Catholic religion in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts. and Gloucester 1857; Lives of the bishops of Exeter and a history of the cathedral 1861. d. St. Nicholas priory, Exeter 23 March 1861. bur. near the high altar in the chapel 2 April. T. N. Brushfield’s Bibliography of the rev. G. Oliver (1885) portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 410 (1874); G.M. x 575–7 (1861).

OLIVER, George (eld. son of Samuel Oliver, R. of Lambley, Notts.). b. Papplewick, Notts. 5 Nov. 1782; educ. Nottingham; second master of gr. sch. at Caistor, Lincs. 1803–9; head master of Great Grimsby gr. sch. 1809; C. of Grimsby 1814–32; V. of Clee, Lincs. 1815–35; V. of Scopwick, Lincs. 12 Oct. 1831 to death; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1834–46; created D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 25 July 1835; R. of South Hyckham, Lincs. 1846 to death; deputy past grand master of masons for Lincolnshire 1832; author of The antiquities of freemasonry 1823 and 1843; The star in the east 1825, new ed. 1842; The monumental antiquities of Great Grimsby, Hull, 1825; The history and antiquities of the Town and minster of Beverley 1829; History of the Holy Trinity guild at Sleaford, Lincoln 1837; Historical landmarks and other evidences of freemasonry, 2 vols. 1845–6; The golden remains of the early masonic writers, 5 vols. 1847–50; The book of the lodge or officer’s manual 1849, 4 ed. 1879. d. Eastgate, Lincoln 3 March 1867, bur. in cemetery attached to St. Swithin’s church 7 March.

OLIVER, John (son of John Oliver, shopkeeper). b. Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire 7 Nov. 1838; educ. Carmarthen sch. and at Carmarthen presbyterian college to 1859; Congregational minister and an occasional preacher in Welsh and English; author of Welsh poems on David, the prince of the Lord; The beauties of nature; The widow of Nain; The wreck of the Royal Charter and Myfyrdod; author of English poems on Life, and When I die. d. Llanfynydd 24 June 1866. Cerddi Cystudd edited by Henry Oliver (1867) portrait.

OLIVER, John. b. 1804; educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; V. of Warmington, near Oundle 1844–73; chaplain to King’s college hospital, London 1855–62; warden of the London diocesan penitentiary, Highgate 1862 to death, where he was very successful in the reformation of the poor girls. d. The Penitentiary, Highgate 10 July 1883. Guardian 11 July 1883 p. 1023.

OLIVER, Martha Cranmer (dau. of John Oliver, scene-painter). b. Salisbury 1834; appeared at Salisbury theatre 1840; first appeared in London at Marylebone theatre 1847; played at Lyceum 1849–55; always known as Pattie Oliver; acted Matilda in Married for money at Drury Lane 10 Oct. 1855, and Celia in As you like it 4 Sept. 1856; played in Talfourd’s burlesque of Atalanta at Haymarket 14 April 1857; leading actress at Strand theatre 1858–61, where she played Amy Robsart in Ye queen, ye earl and ye maiden 29 Dec. 1858, Pauline in Byron’s burlesque The lady of Lyons 14 June 1859, Lisetta in Talfourd’s burlesque Tell and the strike of the cantons 26 Dec. 1859, and the Prince in Byron’s burlesque Cinderella 26 Dec. 1860; the original Mary Meredith in Our American cousin at Haymarket 16 Nov. 1861; played Beautiful Haidee in Byron’s burlesque of that name at Princess’s 10 April 1863; lessee and manager of New Royalty theatre March 1866 to 30 April 1870; played Meg in H. T. Craven’s Meg’s Diversion 17 Oct. 1866; produced F. C. Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, in which she played Susan 29 Nov. 1866, which ran 420 nights and was revived 3 March 1870; produced A. Halliday’s drama Daddy Gray 1 Feb. 1868, and his drama The loving cup 26 Nov. 1868; m. 26 Dec. 1876 Wm. Charles Phillips of Bond st. London, auctioneer; she d. 5 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Dec. 1880. The Players i 97–8 (1860) portrait.

OLIVER, Nathaniel Wilmot. Second lieut. R.A. 2 June 1796, colonel 10 Jany. 1837; col. commandant 18 Feb. 1851 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Clifton 11 Jany. 1854.

OLIVER, Richard Aldworth (son of admiral Robert Dudley Oliver). b. 1811; entered navy 26 April 1825, lieut. 28 June 1838, captain 11 Dec. 1854, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 Oct. 1884; served at battle of Navarino 1827; commanded the Monarch in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854; chairman of the sanitary committee of Marylebone, London to death; published A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand 1853. d. 38 Grove-end road, St. John’s Wood, London 13 Sept. 1889.

OLIVER, Richard Silver (1 son of Robert S. Oliver of Darrington, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, d. 1842). Educ. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 29 July 1830, captain 16 Dec. 1836, sold out 25 June 1844; hunted at Melton, Bicester and Northampton; settled at Bolton Percy, Yorkshire; a supporter of the Bramham Moor hounds; a coachman and a good shot. d. Bolton lodge Feb. 1889. Baily’s Mag. li 208–9 (1889).

OLIVER, Samuel. b. 1801; V. of Calverton, near Nottingham 1826 to death; author of Emma Whiteford, or death in the bosom of the church 1852; War and its probable consequences as foreshadowed in holy scripture 1855; Village lectures on some controverted articles of Catholic faith. d. in a cottage in Calverton village Sept. 1874. bur. 1 Oct.

OLIVER, Thomas. b. about 1776; founded with George Boyd, firm of Oliver and Boyd, publishers, Edinburgh 1806, retired in 1843 after George Boyd’s death. d. Newington lodge, Edinburgh 26 April 1853.

OLIVER, Thomas. b. Breadlow, Bucks. June 1789; employed by Mr. Baker of Millbank, London, gardener; fought and beat Kimber a stone-mason at Tothill Fields, Westminster 1811; always known afterwards as the Chelsea gardener; beat George Cooper at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 15 May 1813, and Edward Painter at Shepperton Range, Middlesex 17 May 1814; landlord of the Duke’s Head 31 Peter st. Westminster 1814; fought Jack Carter at Gretna Green for 100 guineas a side 4 Oct. 1816, when he was badly beaten in 32 rounds lasting 46 minutes; beaten by Wm. Neat at Rickmansworth, Herts. 10 July 1818 in 28 rounds lasting one hour; beat Kendrick the black 28 May 1819; beaten by Daniel Donnelly, the Irish champion 21 July 1819 at Crawley Hurst, Sussex for 100 guineas a side; beat Tom Shelton at Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 13 Jany. 1820; beaten by Edward Painter at North Walsham, Norfolk 17 July 1820; beaten by Tom Spring at Hayes, Middlesex 20 Feb. 1821 for 100 guineas a side 25 rounds in 55 minutes; beaten by T. Hickman 12 June 1821 at Blindow Heath, Surrey for £100 a side; beaten by Wm. Abbott at Moulsey Hurst 6 Nov. 1821, 33 rounds in 54 minutes; commissary of the ring, taking charge of the ropes and stakes; beat Benjamin Burn at Hampton, Middlesex 28 Jany. 1834; a fruiterer and greengrocer in Pimlico and Chelsea. d. London June 1864. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii 89–103 (1880) portrait; The Fancy. By An Operator i 609–16 (1826) portrait; Boxiana ii 954 (1818), iii 262 (1825) portrait, iv 233 etc.; Hannan’s British boxing, part 2, pp. 43–6.

OLIVER, Thomas. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 6 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1805, captain 16 Nov. 1818; major 3 N.I. 13 July 1827; lieut. col. of 3 N.I 3 July 1832 to 1838, and of 12 N.I. 1838 to 10 April 1843; col. of 37 N.I. 13 March 1844 to 1869; general 19 June 1866. d. 43 Duke street, Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1872.

OLIVER, Thomas (son of a farmer and maltster). b. Angmering, Sussex; a stable boy to his uncle, Mr. Page of Epsom; rode light weights for lord Mountcharles; sold horses at fairs for Mr. Farrell of Liverpool; became a steeple chase rider; rode Harlequin at Clifton and won; won the Great Dunchurch steeplechase on Foreigner; a partner with Mr. Curlewis; in Northampton gaol for debt; landlord of The Star at Leamington; won the Great Liverpool on Jerry; a steeple chaser trainer at Prestbury; brought out Charles Boyce and Robert James. Sporting Review xli 249–54 (1859).

OLIVER, William. b. about 1804; landscape painter, chiefly in water-colours; member of the New society (now royal institute) of painters in water-colours 1834; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 54 at B.I., and 36 at Suffolk st. 1829–53; published Scenery of the Pyrenees, lithographed by G. Barnand, T. S. Boys, Carl Hughe and others 1843. d. Langley Mill house, Halstead, Essex 2 Nov. 1853.

OLLENDORFF, Heinrick Godefroy, or Hermann Gerschal. b. Rewitsch, Posen, Prussia about 1802; professor of the German language and literature; resided in 1843 at 23 Titchbourne st. Westminster; his system of acquiring a language was founded on the principle, that each question contained nearly the answer required to be returned; Capt. Basil Hall recommended this system to the English; naturalised in England 20 Dec. 1850; author of A new method of learning to read, write and speak a language in six months, adapted to the German, two parts 1838–41; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the French 1843, 9 ed. 1861; A new method of learning to read, etc., applied to the Italian 1846, 5 ed. 1865; Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à lire, à écrire et à parler une language en six mois, appliquée à l’Anglais, Paris 1848, 6 ed. 1856; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the Spanish 1858; Introduction à la méthode Ollendorff, appliquée au Latin, Paris 1862; the above works all went to many editions in various languages, with keys to them in other volumes. d. Paris 1865.

Note.—On 10 Dec. 1850 he obtained an injunction against Alexander Black to restrain him from selling a pirated edition of A new method of learning French, originally published in London by Ollendorff 25 April 1843. The son Paul Ollendorff is a teacher of languages at 28 bis Rue de Richelieu, Paris.

OLLIER, Charles. b. Bath, Somersetshire 1788; clerk in Coutt’s bank, Strand, London 1802; publisher with his brother James Ollier at 3 Welbeck st. and then in Vere st. Bond st. 1816–22; a friend of Leigh Hunt; published Leigh Hunt’s Foliage 1818, Hero and Leander 1819, and The story of Rimini, 2 ed. 1819; also Keats’s Poems 1817, and Shelley’s The revolt of Islam 1817, the Collected works of Charles Lamb 1818, and several of Barry Cornwall’s volumes of Poems; literary adviser to Henry Colburn and then to Richard Bentley; a lecturer on celebrated writers; a publisher in Southampton st. Strand, London 1845–9; author of Altham and his wife, a domestic tale 1818; Inesilla, or the tempter, a romance, with other tales 1824; Ferrers, a romance, 3 vols. 1842; Fallacy of ghosts, dreams, and omens, with stories of witchcraft, life-in-death, and monomania 1848; Original views of London 1842, and Original views of Oxford 1843, 2 vols., letterpress by C. Ollier. d. 5 Caroline place, Fulham road, London 5 June 1859. Correspondence of Leigh Hunt i 308–11, ii 61 etc. (1862); Spectator 18 June 1859 p. 640; Lady Shelley’s Shelley memorials (1875) ix 80 etc.; Temple Bar lviii 243–52 (1880); St. James’s Mag. xxxv 387–413 (1875).

OLLIER, Edmund (son of the preceding). b. near London 26 Nov. 1826; wrote for Ainsworth’s magazine, the Athenæum, All the year round 1850–70, and Household Words 1850–9; edited the first series of The essays of Elia for Hotten’s Worldwide library 1867; edited Leigh Hunt’s Tale for the chimney corner 1869; on staff of the Daily News 1853–77; sub-editor of The Leader 1855–8; editor of The Atlas 1859–60; literary editor of London review 1874–6; worked for the firm of Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, publishers; granted cross of the Italian order of S.S. Maurice and Lazarus 1867; author of Poems from the Greek mythology 1867; The Doré gallery 1870; Cassell’s History of the war between France and Germany, 2 vols. 1871–2, 3 ed. 1887–9; Cassell’s History of the United States, 3 vols. 1874–7; Our British portrait painters, from sir P. Lely to J. Sant 1874; Cassell’s Illustrated history of the Russo-Turkish war, 2 vols. 1877–9, 3 ed. 1889–91; Cassell’s Illustrated universal history, 4 vols. 1882–5, 2 ed. 1892; The life and times of queen Victoria by R. Wilson 1887, the first eleven chapters were by E. Ollier. d. 154 Oakley st. King’s road, Chelsea 19 April 1886. Biograph ii 533–5 (1879); Academy xxix 309–10 (1886); Athenæum i 583 (1886).

OLLIFFE, Sir Joseph Francis (son of Joseph Olliffe of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 1808; educ. univ. of Paris, M.A. 1829, M.D. 1840; began practice in Paris 1840; fellow of Anatomical society of Paris; president of Paris Medical society; a knight of the Legion of honour 1846, officer 1855; physician to British embassy, Paris from March 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 13 June 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; took part with count de Morny in unremunerative building operations at Deauville, near Trouville. d. 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 14 March 1869. British medical Journal 20 March 1869 p. 274; Reg. and mag. of biog. April 1869 p. 296.

OLLIVANT, Alfred (son of Wm. Ollivant of Ashton-under-Lyne, cotton spinner). b. Mosley st. Manchester 16 Aug. 1798; educ. St. Paul’s school 1809–17, captain of the school; Campden exhibitioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 1817; Perry exhibitioner 1819, Craven scholar 1820, sixth wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1821; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1836; fellow of Trin. coll. 1821; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1822; vice-principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827–43; prebendary of St. David’s 28 July 1829; R. of Llangeler, Carmarthenshire 1831, vicar 1832–43; prebendary of Brecon 10 Nov. 1831; R. of Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire 1835–7; V. of Kerry, Montgomeryshire 1836–43; regius professor of divinity at Cambridge and R. of Somersham, Hunts. March 1843 to Nov. 1849; bishop of Llandaff 20 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec; restored the cathedral and built, restored, or enlarged about 170 churches; established the Church extension society; member of the Old Testament revision company, which he had suggested 1870; presented with his portrait in the town hall at Cardiff 30 Nov. 1882; author of An analysis of the Hebrew text of the history of Joseph 1828, 3 ed. 1836; Some account of the condition of the fabric of Llandaff cathedral 1857, 2 ed. 1860; and of upwards of 30 charges, letters, and sermons 1827–81. d. Bishop’s court, Llandaff 16 Dec. 1882. bur. in churchyard of Llandaff cathedral 21 Dec., tomb with effigy in marble by Armitstead, on north side of the altar steps. J. Morgan’s Four biographical sketches (1892) 1–60; Church portrait journal i 41 (1880) portrait; Red Dragon iii 193 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. xv 376 (1849) portrait, lxxxi 680 (1882) portrait.

OLMAR, stage name of James Chadwick. Performer on a trapèze-swing; a walker head downwards with his feet in rings; performed at the Alhambra palace, London in Nov. 1862; weighed 130 lbs.; his biceps, fore-arm, wrists, pectoral muscles and muscles of his back were of great strength. d. 1 King st. Chester road, Manchester 24 Feb. 1885. bur. Ardwick cemetery 27 Feb. F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of natural history, 3rd series, 2 ed. ii 92–6 (1868).

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).