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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).