Part 39

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_.