Part 41

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

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

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

ORMONDE, ALFRED. _b._ Kilkenny 19 March 1816; dramatist. _d._ April or May 1852. _Leipsig Illustrated News 23 May 1852 portrait._

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ORPEN, SIR RICHARD JOHN THEODORE (2 son of Francis Orpen, V. of Kilgarvan, co. Kerry, _d._ 1805). _b._ Cork 6 Nov. 1788; educ. Middleton and Cork; solicitor at Dublin 1809 to death; president of Incorporated society of attorneys and solicitors of Ireland 1860 to death; one of the comrs. to inquire into practice of courts of law and equity in Ireland; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868. d. 41 George’s st. Great North, Dublin 4 May 1876. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 8 May. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 478 (1876); _Irish Law Times x_ 266, 281, 300 (1876).

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

ORR, CHARLES ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Madras engineers 9 June 1831, colonel 29 June 1863; colonel commandant 24 March 1871 to death; L.G. 20 March 1876. _d._ 6 Oct. 1876.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OSBALDESTON, GEORGE (son of George Osbaldeston of Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, _d._ 1794). _b._ Wimpole st. London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8, and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs. he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket 5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won; fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17 April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the Squire. _d._ 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866. _C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana_ (1867) 6–54; _Baily’s Mag. ii_ 295–306 (1861) _portrait_; _Sporting Review lvi_ 170–80 (1866) _portrait_; _Day’s Reminiscences of the turf_ (1891) 84, 85; _Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck_ (1892) 402–8; _Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences_ (1843) 43–6; _Wildrake’s Cracks of the day_ (1841) 32–5; _H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport_ (1895); _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 342 (1862); _Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 21 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news ix_ 144, 163 (1878) _portrait_.

OSBORN, GEORGE (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper 1764–1836). _b._ Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester 1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863 and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols. 1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. _d._ 24 Cambrian road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. _Wesleyan Methodist mag. June 1891 pp._ 468–78 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp._ 124, 126 _portrait_, _2 May 1891 p._ 563 _portrait_.

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

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

OSBORN, SAMUEL (brother of Marmaduke Clark Osborn 1827–91). _b._ Sheffield Aug. 1826; a file maker Brook hill, Sheffield 1851; a manufacturer of steel railway materials in the Wicker, Sheffield, took J. E. Fawcett into partnership; head of firm of Samuel Osborn and co., Clyde steel and iron works, Sheffield; master cutler 1873; suspended payment April 1873 with heavy liabilities, bought back the business paying a composition of 12s. in the pound, paid all his creditors in full 9 Feb. 1884, and was presented with a testimonial April 1884; mayor of Sheffield 1890; removed to the Rutland works, Sheffield 1885. _d._ Blackpool 7 July 1891. _bur._ Ecclesall 11 July. _Sheffield Independent 8 July 1891 p._ 5, _10 July p._ 6, _13 July pp._ 5–6.

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

OSBORNE, CATHERINE REBECCA (eld. dau. of Robert Smith, major R.E.). _b._ 1795; _m._ 4 April 1816 sir Thomas Osborne, 8 baronet, _b._ 1757, _d._ 3 June 1821. She _d._ Newton Anner, co. Tipperary 10 Oct. 1856. _Memorial of life of Lady Osborne_, _edited by her daughter Mrs. Osborne_ 2 _vols._ (1870).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O’SHAUGNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR. _b._ London 14 March 1844; a junior assistant in the British Museum library 27 June 1861, assistant in the zoological department 5 Aug. 1863 to death, prepared the part of the annual zoological record devoted to herpetology; an authority on Reptilia; author of An epic of women and other poems 1870; Lays of France 1872; Music and moonlight 1874; Songs of a worker 1881; author with his wife of Toyland 1875, a book of tales for children; _m._ 1873 Eleanor, dau. of Westland Marston, the dramatist, she _d._ 8 Feb. 1879; he _d._ 163 Goldborne road, Kensal Green, London 30 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 3 Feb. _L. C. Moulton’s Arthur O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work_ (1894), _memoir pp._ 13–46 _portrait_; _E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets_ (1887) 284, 440; _A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii_ 171–92 (1893); _H. B. Forman’s Our living poets_ (1871) 508–12; _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 629–32 (1883).

O’SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL. _b._ 1797; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 16 June 1859. _d._ Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept. 1884.

O’SHAUGHNESSY, SIR WILLIAM BROOKE, afterwards Sir William O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick). _b._ Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830; entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major 1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta; laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847, director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854; connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired 1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A. Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases 1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842; The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta 1844. _d._ Southsea 10 Jany. 1889. _Laurie’s Distinguished Anglo-Indians_, _1st series_ (1887) 281–2.

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

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

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

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

OSTREHAN, GEORGIANA AUGUSTA (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan). _b._ 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. _d._ at the Convent 5 Jany. 1884. _Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) 221–32 _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE.--Elsdale hall was produced by Miss Kelly in 1842.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OUSELEY, JOSEPH WALKER JASPER. _b._ 1799; attached to the college of Fort William, Calcutta 1821; assistant professor of Sanscrit, Mahratta and Bengali 1824; professor of Arabic and Persian 1825, secretary of the college 1833–8; superintendent of the Mysore princes 1838–44; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury, England 1844–57; an examiner in oriental languages for civil service commissioners 1862–83; colonel Bengal retired list 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ 10 Inverness terrace, London 29 Oct. 1889. _Times 1 Nov. 1889 p._ 5, _9 Nov. p._ 6.

OUSELEY, THOMAS JOHN. Published and edited the Manx Punch several months; author of Poems, Douglas 1869. _d._ May 1874.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OVERWEG, ADOLF. _b._ Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. _d._ of fever near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. _Notice of recent discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg._ _By J. Hogg_ 1852; _Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi_ 130 (1851), _xxii_ 133 (1852), _xxiii p. cx_ (1853), _xxvi pp. clxi, clxii_ (1857); _Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv_ 19–24 (1887).

OWDEN, SIR THOMAS SCAMBLER (youngest son of John Owden of Brighton). _b._ Cuckfield, Sussex 28 Oct. 1808; a merchant in City of London; common councilman for Bishopsgate ward 1845, alderman 12 May 1868 to death; sheriff of London 1870–1, lord mayor 1877–8; knighted at Windsor Castle 27 Nov. 1878; a member of the Innholders’ and Loriners’ companies; opened the new winter gardens at Blackpool, Lancs. 1878. _d._ Mulgrave house, Sutton, Surrey 9 Jany. 1889. _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_ (1884) 139–47; _Graphic xvi_ 436 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_ 444 (1877) _portrait_.

OWEN, ANEURIN (only son of Wm. Owen, who took name of Pughe). _b._ 23 July 1792; studied the Chronicle of the Princes in the Red Book of Hergest at Jesus coll. Oxf. 1831; an assistant tithe comr. for England and Wales 1836; an assistant poor law comr.; a comr. for inclosure of commonable lands 1845; the adviser of the Record office upon all Welsh matters 1825 to death; won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod 1832 for the best Welsh essay on agriculture, the essay was published in the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, ed. by W. Jones 1839, pp. 153–201, and in a separate volume; edited Ancient chronicles of the princes of Wales as far as 1066, printed in Petrie and Sharpe’s Monumenta Historica Britannica (Record Commission 1848) pp. 841–55, reprinted and completed in Brut y Tywysogion, or The chronicle of the princes of Wales, ed. by J. Williams ab Ithel (Rolls Series 1860). _d._ Trosypare, near Denbigh 17 July 1851. _Archæologia Cambrensis_, _3 ed. series iv_ 208–12, 245–9 (1858), _vi_ 184–6 (1860), _vii_ 93–103, 169–71, 263–7 (1861), _viii_ 289–90 (1862).

OWEN, CONRAD JOHN. Entered Bombay army 1823; captain 1 Bombay light cavalry 30 Oct. 1838, major 7 Dec. 1850, lieut. col. 28 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1858 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Malta 3 April 1860.

OWEN, DAVID (son of Benjamin Owen of Llanpumpsant, near Carmarthen, shoemaker). _b._ Llanpumpsant 1794; originally known as David Benjamin; kept school at Gilfach, near Aber, Carnarvonshire; in charge of the Baptist churches of Talygraig, Galltraeth, Tyndomen and Rhos Hirwaen in Carnarvonshire; expelled from the Baptist denomination; member of the Independent church at Capel Newydd; wrote an article signed Brutus on The poverty of the Welsh language in Seren Gomer, the leading Welsh magazine 1824; edited an undenominational monthly magazine entitled Lleuad yr Oes, Swansea 1827–31; edited at Llandovery an Independent magazine entitled Efengydydd 1831–5, and a church magazine entitled The Haul 1835 to death; author of A treatise in defence of infant baptism, Aberystwith 1828; Allwedd y Cyssegr new Eglurhad byr ar yr Ysgyrthyrau Sanctaidd, Llanmddyfri 1834; Proceedings of the established church 1841; Eliasia. By Bleddyn 1844, being notes on the career of John Elias of Anglesey; Brutusiana 1855, a selection of his non-controversial writings. _d._ Bron Arthen near Llandovery 16 Jany. 1866. _bur._ Llywel churchyard. _Ashton’s History of Welsh literature_ (1894); _Red Dragon iii_ 385–405 (1883) _portrait_; _Y Traethodydd_, _Denbigh_ (1867) 213–27, 421–8.

OWEN, DAVID DALE (son of Robert Owen, the Socialist 1771–1858). _b._ Lanarkshire 24 June 1807; graduated at Ohio medical college 1835; conducted the survey of Minnesota territory 1849–52; state geologist of Kentucky 1854–7, of Arkansas 1857–9, and of Indiana 1859 to death; author of Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, Philadelphia, 2 vols. 1852; Report of a geological reconnoisance of Indiana 1839; A geological report of the Marble hall quarry 1853; Report of the geological survey in Kentucky, 2 vols. 1856–7; Reports of a geological reconnoisance of Arkansas, 2 vols. 1858–60. _d._ New Harmony, Indiana 13 Nov. 1860.

OWEN, EDWARD (only son of Edward Owen of Garthyngharad, Merioneth). Educ. Friars school, Bangor, and Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1852; C. of St. George, Hulme 1856–7; C. of Stockton Heath, Cheshire 1858–9; in charge of Eastham, Cheshire 1859–60; V. of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1861 to death; author of A brief history of the church and parish of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1868; Jottings on the rubrics for morning and evening prayer 1874. _d._ Oldham 22 Jany. 1883 aged 52. _bur._ Chaddington cemetery.

OWEN, EDWARD PRYCE (only son of Hugh Owen 1761–1827, archdeacon of Salop). _b._ March 1788; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; minister of Park st. chapel, Grosvenor sq. London; V. of Wellington and R. of Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors, Shropshire 1823–40; contributed several plates to Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury 1825; published Etchings of ancient buildings in Shrewsbury, 2 numbers 1820–1; Etchings 1826, containing 45 plates with his portrait; The book of etchings, 2 vols. 1842–55. _d._ Roderic house, Cheltenham 15 July 1863.

OWEN, ELLIS (son of Owen Ellis of Cefnymeusydd in the parish of Ynys Cynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, farmer). _b._ 31 March 1789; educ. Penmorfa and Shrewsbury; farmer at Cefnymeusydd to his death; a local antiquary and genealogist; a writer of englynion (stanzas); president of the Literary Society of Cefnymeusydd 1846–57; F.S.A. 23 Jany. 1868; his poetical and prose writings were published with a biographical notice under the title of Cell Mendwy, The Hermit’s Cell 1877. _d._ Cefnymeusydd 27 Jany. 1868.

OWEN, SIR FRANCIS PHILIP CUNLIFFE (3 son of Charles Cunliffe Owen, captain R.N.) _b._ 8 June 1828; entered navy 1840, served in the Mediterranean and West Indies 1840, retired from ill health 1845; clerk in the Science and art department, Marlborough house, London 1854; one of the superintendents of the British section of the International exhibition at Paris 1855; deputy general superintendent of the South Kensington museum 1857, assistant director 1860–73, and director 1873–93; director of the foreign sections of the London exhibition 1862; assistant executive comr. at Paris exhibition 1867; secretary of the English commission at the Vienna exhibition 1873; entertained at a banquet in London and presented with 3,500 guineas for his services as secretary of royal commission at Paris exhibition of 1878, 12 March 1881; one of the executive committee of the Fisheries exhibition 1883, the Health exhibition 1884, and the Inventions exhibition 1885; executive officer of the Colonial and Indian exhibition 1886; C.B. 5 Jany. 1875, K.C.B. 28 June 1886, K.C.M.G. 29 Oct. 1878; C.I.E. 30 June 1879; grand officer of the legion of honour. _d._ Lowestoft 23 March 1894. _New monthly mag. cxvi_ 1260 (1879) _portrait_; _Touchstone 3 May 1879 pp._ 1–2 _portrait_; _Biograph March–April 1882 pp._ 249–51; _Huish’s Year’s Art_ (1892) 15 _portrait_; _Graphic xiii_ 459, 472 (1876) _portrait, and 20 May 1893 p._ 562 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 445 (1873) _portrait_.

OWEN, FREDERICK. _b._ 1800 or 1801; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; R. of Aghold with Mullinacuffe, co. Wicklow 1857–89; precentor of Leighlin 1880–90; dean of Leighlin 1890 to death. _d._ Aghold rectory 3 July 1895.

OWEN, GEORGE. Secretary of the Welsh property defence association; organized the landlord’s case for the Welsh land commission; chief organizer of the conservative party in North Wales; _committed suicide_ by taking poison at Carnarvon 9 July 1895.

OWEN, HENRY CHARLES CUNLIFFE (brother of Sir Francis P. C. Owen 1828–94). _b._ Lausanne, Switzerland 16 Oct. 1821; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 March 1839, lieut col. 1 April 1862 to death; served in the Boer war 1845, and the Kaffir war 1846–7; computer of space for the United Kingdom at the Great exhibition 1851, then superintendent of the foreign departments, and lastly general superintendent of the exhibition; inspector of art schools in the department of practical art at Marlborough house 1851–4; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 3 Feb. 1852; lost his leg in the Crimean war 1855; granted pension of £100 per annum; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; assistant inspector-general of fortifications at the war office Oct. 1855, deputy inspector-general April 1856 to Aug. 1860; commanded R.E. of the Western district Aug. 1860 to death; colonel in the army 22 Nov. 1861; a founder of the English church union 1860. _d._ Plymouth 7 March 1867, memorial window in St. James’s church, Plymouth.

OWEN, HENRY JOHN (son of John Owen, minister of Park chapel, Chelsea 1812–22, _d._ Ramsgate 1822). _b._ 22 Sept. 1796; perpetual curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1822–34; Miss Hughes miraculously cured in the chapel July 1831; Dr. Bayford spoke in the spirit there; built the Catholic Apostolic church in College st. Chelsea, ordained to be the angel there 1834, some of his former congregation joined him there, held office to his death, it was generally known as Owen’s chapel; author of Discourses on the Lord’s Supper 1830; The prayer of faith viewed in connexion with the healing of the sick 1831; We are not our own, a discourse 1859. _d._ 11 Foulis terrace, South Kensington, London 26 Nov. 1872. _A. Beaver’s Memorials of Old Chelsea_ (1892) 146, 342; _Miller’s Irvingism i_ 139–40 (1878).

OWEN, HUGH. _b._ Denbigh 23 May 1784; captain Shropshire volunteers 24 Nov. 1803; cornet in sir Stapleton Cotton’s regiment 31 July 1806; captain of cavalry in the Portuguese army 1810; brigade major to sir Loftus Otway and then to sir Benjamin D’Urban; led a brigade into action at battle of Vittoria 21 June 1813; captain 18 hussars 22 June 1813; placed on h.p. 25 May 1816; sold out of British army 4 Sept. 1817; went with lord Beresford to Brazil 1820; retired and resided on his estate near Oporto; knight commander of San Bento d’Aviz and knight of the Tower and Sword; author of A Guerra civil em Portugal, o sitio do Porto e a morte de Don Pedro. Por hum Estrangeiro 1836; The civil war in Portugal and the siege of Oporto 1836; Memoir of major the hon. Somers Cocks, privately printed by sir John Rennie. _d._ Garratt’s hall, Banstead, Surrey 16 Dec. 1861.

OWEN, SIR HUGH (son of Owen Owen). _b._ Voel, parish of Llangeinwen, Anglesea 14 Jany. 1804; educ. Carnarvon 1812–17; clerk to W. Bulkeley Hughes, barrister the Temple, London 1825; clerk to R. Vaughan Williams, solicitor, Hatton garden 1819 and for many years; clerk in the poor law office, Somerset house 22 Feb. 1836; advanced to be in the secretary’s office; chief clerk of the poor law board 1853 to Nov. 1872, gave evidence before parliamentary committees on the poor law board which led to the establishment of local government board; sec. to a committee for establishing the South Islington and Pentonville British schools 1839; a great advocate of improved education in Wales and a promoter of the Bangor training college, established 1858, and the Swansea training college for women; founded social science section of the national Eisteddfod at Carnarvon 1862; a founder of the honorable society of the Cymmroderion Nov. 1873; chief founder of the University college of Wales at Aberystwith, opened Oct. 1872; member of London school board for Finsbury 3 April 1872; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. _d._ Mentone 20 Nov. 1881. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 26 Nov., bronze statue unveiled at Carnarvon 22 Oct. 1888, bust at royal institution, Swansea. _Red Dragon i_ 291–300 (1882) _portrait_; _The Times 8 and 23 Oct. 1888_.

OWEN, SIR HUGH OWEN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Owen, _d._ 1861). _b._ Lincoln’s inn, London Jany. 1804; M.P. Pembroke boroughs 1826–38 and 1861–68; lieut. col. Pembrokeshire militia 1830; succeeded 6 Feb. 1861; lieut. col. commandant royal Pembroke artillery 14 May 1872, hon. col. 10 Feb. 1875 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 24 May 1872 to death. _d._ Cranmore, Midhurst, Sussex 5 Sept. 1891.

OWEN, JACOB. _b._ North Wales 28 July 1778; clerk of the works to royal engineer department at Portsmouth 1804–32; principal engineer and architect at Irish board of works in Dublin 1832–56; erected criminal lunatic asylum at Dundrum, near Dublin 1848, and Mountjoy prison, Dublin 1850; erected model schools and other government buildings in Ireland. _d._ Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs. 26 Oct. 1870. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. _Dictionary of architecture vi_ 54 (1877).

OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS (son of Jacob Owen 1778–1870). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1852; architect to Irish board of works at Dublin, in succession to his father, 1856 to death. _d._ 9 April 1891.

OWEN, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 March 1796; served in battles of Camperdown and Trafalgar; commanded the detachment of marines at Languilia, which defeated the 52 French regt. 1812; commanded marines in lord John Hay’s squadron on coast of Spain 1836–7; aide-de-camp to the sovereign 21 April 1837 to 11 Nov. 1851; deputy adjutant general of R.M. 1 Jany. 1838 to 13 Dec. 1854; col. commandant R.M. 10 July 1844 to Nov. 1851; L.G. 20 June 1855; K.H. 1 Jany. 1833, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852. _d._ 47 Connaught sq. London 15 Feb. 1857.

OWEN, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Lord of Pembroke, _d._ 15 June 1801). _b._ Pembroke 1776; barrister I.T. 23 May 1800; M.P. Pembrokeshire 1806–41; M.P. Pembroke district of burgh 1841 to death; assumed by R.L. name of Owen in lieu of Lord on succeeding to estates of sir Hugh Owen on 23 Aug. 1809; cr. baronet 12 Jany. 1813; governor of Milford Haven 14 June 1821 to death; lord lieut. of Pembrokeshire 1824 to death. _d._ Taynton house, near Newent, Gloucestershire 6 Feb. 1861.

OWEN, JOHN. V. of Thrussington, Leicestershire 1845 to death; rural dean 1853; translated from the Latin of John Calvin Commentaries on the twelve minor Prophets 1846; On Paul to the Romans 1849; On Jeremiah and Lamentations 1850; On Paul to the Hebrews 1853; On the Catholic Epistles 1855; from the Latin of Martin Luther Commentary on the Galatians 1845; from the Welsh of W. Rees The Mercy seat 1861; author of A memoir of rev. Daniel Rowlands 1840; Lectures on popery 1843; Memoirs of rev. T. Jones 1851; Church government according to the New Testament 1852. _d._ 1867.

OWEN, JOHN (son of the captain of a small vessel). _b._ Crane st. Chester 14 Nov. 1821; apprenticed to Messrs. Powell and Edwards, cutlers; became a professional musician 1844; organist successively of Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, S. Paul’s, Boughton, St. Bridgets, St. Mary’s, and the Welsh church, all in Chester; known in Wales as Owain Alaw 1863; won the prize for the best anthem at the royal Eisteddfod of Rhuddlan 1850; edited Gems of Welsh melody, 2 series 1862, 4 series 1873; composed The prince of Wales cantata 1862; The festival of Wales cantata 1866; The Welsh harp, national songs 1880; wrote glees, songs, and anthems in Welsh musical magazines; his name is attached to upwards of 25 pieces of music. _d._ Lorne st. Chester 30 Jany. 1883. _Y Geninen_, _Carnarvon_ (1883) 124–30; _The musical world 3 Feb. 1883 p._ 74.

OWEN, JOHN BLACKMAN. In the service of Great Eastern railway from 1836, secretary 1850 to death. _d._ 17 Upper Hornsey Rise, London 31 July 1873. _bur._ Great Northern cemetery, Southgate 7 Aug.

OWEN, JOHN PICKARD. _b._ Goodge st. Tottenham court road, London 5 Feb. 1832; received baptism by immersion in a pond near Dorking; joined the church of Rome; became a Deist, but afterwards a believer in christianity; author of The fair haven, a work in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord’s ministry upon earth, by J. P. Owen, ed. by W. B. Owen 1873, memoir pp. 1–70. _d._ 15 March 1872.

OWEN, JONATHAN. _b._ 3 April 1820; billiard player; teacher of billiards; marker in annual matches between Oxford and Cambridge many years; known as Oxford Jonathan; father of Fred Owen, the actor. _d._ Craven Buildings, Strand, London 26 March 1879. _Bell’s Life in London 29 March 1879 p._ 2.

OWEN, JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH (5 son of Jacob Owen, architect, Dublin 1778–1870). _b._ Portsmouth 22 July 1809; educ. St. Paul’s gram. sch. near Portsmouth, and at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of Walsall Wood, Staffs. 1835; in charge of Farthingstone, Northants. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary, Bilston, Staffs. 1838–54, also preacher at St. George’s ch. Wolverhampton, on leaving received a service of plate valued at £1,000; incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1854–7, when the chapel fell in and the ruins were taken down; preached in Store st. music hall 1857; preacher at St. Swithin’s, Cannon st. 1856; chairman of directors of Royal Polytechnic soc. 1857 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Chelsea 1858 to death; lecturer St. John’s, Wapping 1858 to death; author of Six plain sermons on the Sabbath 1835; Six lectures on the rite of confirmation 1840; The pottery schoolmaster, a biographical sketch of Silas Even 1852; Diligent in business, a memoir of G. B. Thornycroft 1856; Business without christianity, with statistics and facts 1856, 2 ed. 1858; The mischief and miseries of temper 1857; Cliques, social, professional, and religious, with sketches of the Latch-Key and the Lock-out-the-Town’s libel 1864; The homes of scripture 1865; Men’s infirmities, natural and acquired 1865. _d._ 40 Cadogan place, London 18 May 1872. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 May. _Lectures and sermons by J. B. Owen_ (1873), _memoir pp._ 1–96; _R. Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_ (1874) 339–40.