Chapter LIV: Part 54

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

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

NORTON, BERNARD GUSTAVUS. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister
I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March
1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death.
_d._ Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal xv_ 478
(1871).

NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (2 dau. of Thomas Sheridan,
_d._ Cape of Good Hope 1817). _b._ 11 South Audley st. London
1808; resided with her mother in Hampton court palace 1817, then
at Great George st. Westminster; _m._ (1) 30 July 1827 George
Chapple Norton, he brought an action for crim. con. against
lord Melbourne who was acquitted at the trial 23 June 1836; she
obtained a separation 1840, he _d._ 24 Feb. 1876; she _m._ (2)
1 March 1877 sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 9 baronet, he _d._ 15
Jany. 1878; edited La belle assemblée, vols. 1–9, 1832 etc.; The
English annual 1834; Fisher’s Drawing room scrap-book 1832 etc.;
author of The dandies’ rout 1828, a satirical piece; The sorrows
of Rosalie, a tale with other poems 1829; The undying one, and
other poems 1830; A voice from the factories 1836, a poem;
The dream and other poems 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The child of the
islands 1845, a poem; Aunt Carry’s ballads for children 1847;
Stuart of Dunleath, 3 vols. 1851; English laws for women in the
nineteenth century 1854; Letter to the queen on lord chancellor
Cranworth’s marriage and divorce bill 1855; Heimgegangen, in
memory of H.R.H. the prince consort 1862; The lady of La Garaye
1862, 8 ed. 1875; Lost and saved, 3 vols. 1863, 5 ed. 1863;
Old sir Douglas, 3 vols. 1867, new ed. 1871; edited The rose
of Jericho, from the French 1869. _d._ 10 Upper Grosvenor st.
London 15 June 1877, portrait by Mrs. Ferguson in Scottish
National portrait gallery, she is depicted as Astrea the spirit
of justice in Maclise’s fresco in the house of lords executed
1849; she is the heroine of George Meredith’s novel Diana of
the Crossways, 3 vols. 1885. _Songs, poems and verses by Helen,
lady Dufferin_ (1894) _p._ 32 _etc._; _F. Harvey’s Genealogical
table of Sheridan family_ (1873); _P. Fitzgerald’s Lives of the
Sheridans ii_ 352–448 (1886); _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_,
_second series_ (1893) 121–41 _portrait_; _W. Bates’s Maclise
portrait gallery_ (1883) 53–8 _portrait_, 355, 419, 457, 493;
_C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs iii_ 349–51 (1874); _Graphic xv_
624 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 595, 613 (1877) _portrait_;
_Temple Bar Feb. 1878 pp._ 101–110; _Englishwoman’s Domestic
Mag. xxiv_ 49, 67 (1878); _Traits of character by a contemporary
ii_ 317–42 (1860); _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record_, _2 ed._ 1855
_p._ 761 _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_
(1885) 101–3; _Reynold’s Miscellany i_ 233 (1847) _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

NORTON, JOHN BRUCE (eld. son of sir John David Norton, puisne
justice Madras, _d._ 24 Sept. 1843). _b._ 1815; educ. Harrow
1829–34, in the cricket eleven 1832–3, head of the school 1833;
matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 13 June 1833, postmaster 1833–7,
B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1841; sheriff of Madras
1843–5; clerk of the crown in supreme court of judicature 1845
till 17 Aug. 1862, when court was abolished; counsel for paupers
1847; government pleader 1 Feb. 1853; public prosecutor 15 Aug.
1862; acting advocate general 1862–3; advocate general 2 June
1863, resigned 1871; a senator of Madras univ. and professor of
law; president of Patcheapah’s Institution; lecturer on law to
Indian students at the Temple, London Jany. 1873; held private
classes; author of Folia opima. By J. B. N. of Merton college
1843; The rebellion in India, how to prevent another 1857; The
law of evidence applicable to the courts of the East India
company 1858, 8 ed. 1873; Memories of Merton 1861, 2 ed. 1865 in
verse; Nemesis, a poem 1861; A selection of leading cases in the
Hindu law of inheritance, 2 vols. 1870–1. _d._ 11 Pengwern road,
Kensington, London 13 July 1883. _Law Times 21 July 1883 p._
232, _28 July p._ 249.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTTAGE, GEORGE SWAN. _b._ London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex
to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W.
Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and
photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856;
opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his
photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected
the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for
Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor
1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; _m._ 1851
Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank
and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885.
_d._ Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. _Graphic xvi_ 436
(1877) _portrait_; _I.L N. lxxxi_ 444 (1877) _portrait_, _lxxxv_
444 (1884) _portrait_; _City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp._ 2–3, 6, _15
April 1885 pp._ 2–3.

NOTTIDGE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and
dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated
the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey
and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty
sessions; a well known philanthropist. _d._ Wandsworth, Surrey
17 March 1853. _bur._ at Bermondsey 23 March. _G.M. xxxix_ 550
(1853).

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

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

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

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

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

NOWOSIELSKI, FELIX. _b._ Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant
colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order
Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. _d._ London 22 April 1864.
_bur._ Highgate cemetery.

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

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

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

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

NUGENT, GEORGE HODGES. Vice-consul at Arica, Peru 16 March
1846, and consul there 16 June 1871 to death; acting chargé
d’affaires at Lima 13 June to 4 Sept. 1874. _d._ Mollendo 25
March 1879. _I.L.N. lxxv_ 505 (1879) _portrait_.

NUGENT, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1814; proprietor of royal Cambridge
music hall, Commercial st. Whitechapel, London 1869–79. _d._ at
his house 59 Maida Yale, London 8 March 1884. _bur._ St. Mary’s
cemetery, Kensal Green 14 March.

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

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

NUGENT, SIR PERCY FITZGERALD, 1 Baronet (son of Thomas
Fitzgerald). _b._ Baltinoran, co. Westmeath 29 Sept. 1797; educ.
Old hall green, Herts.; assumed name of Nugent 14 Sept. 1831;
created baronet 30 Sept. 1831; M.P. Westmeath 1847–52. _d._
Donore, near Multifarnham, co. Westmeath 25 June 1874. _I.L.N.
lxv_ 23 (1874).

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

NUN, RICHARD. Called to Irish bar 1808; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844. _d._
1867.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O

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

OAKELEY, SOULDEN. _b._ 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June
1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. _d._ Oakeley, Shropshire
17 Oct. 1856.

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

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

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

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

OAKLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of
Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) _b._ Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ.
Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850;
scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A.
1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery
in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to
Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden,
London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its
history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince
Albert Victor 1864. _d._ Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. _G.M.
xix_ 526, 651 (1865); _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._ 7, _25 Sept. p._
12.

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

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

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

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

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

OATES, FRANCIS (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside,
Yorkshire). _b._ Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch.
Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America
1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from
Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873
and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river;
started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi
31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. _d._
of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the
Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. _Matabele land and the Victoria falls,
a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F.
Oates_, _ed. by C. J. Oates_ 1881, _2 ed._ (1889) _memoir pp.
xix–xlii and portrait_; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv_, _p.
clii_ (1875).

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

OATES, WILLIAM WILFRID. _b._ 1828; publisher of Roman catholic
books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st.
Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and
Oates to death. _d._ 28 Dec. 1876.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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