Chapter LV: Part 55

O’BRIEN, WILLIAM SMITH (2 son of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet
1773–1837). _b._ Dromoland, co. Clare 17 Oct. 1803; educ. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; assumed additional
name of Smith on death of his maternal grandfather; M.P.
Ennis 1828–31; fought a duel with Thomas Steele, O’Connell’s
‘head pacificator’; M.P. Limerick 1835–48; a motion in house
of commons declaring him guilty of contempt for refusing to
serve on a railway committee of which he had been appointed a
member, was carried by 120 votes 28 April 1846, committed to
custody of sergeant-at-arms 30 April and discharged 25 May;
made his last speech in house of commons 10 April 1848; joined
the Repeal Association 20 Oct. 1843 and became the second man
in the movement; seceded from O’Connell’s party 27 July 1846;
chief founder of the Irish Confederation, which first met 13
Jany. 1847; met Mitchel at the confederate soirée at Limerick
29 April 1848, which meeting is burlesqued by Thackeray in his
The Battle of Limerick (W. M. Thackeray’s Ballads and Tales
1869, pp. 179–83); tried in court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15
May 1848, for his speech at meeting of the Irish confederation
15 March urging formation of a national guard, but the jury
were discharged without returning a verdict 16 May; made an
attack on the police at Boulah Common, near Ballingarry 29 July
1848, which failed, arrested at Thurles railway station 5 Aug.,
tried at Clonmel by a special commission 28 Sept., found guilty
of high treason 7 Oct. and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and
quartered 9 Oct., this sentence was commuted to transportation
for life and he was sent to Tasmania 29 July 1849, granted a
pardon 26 Feb. 1854; resided at Brussels 1854–6; returned to
Ireland July 1856; author of Considerations relative to the
renewal of the East India company’s charter 1830; Principles of
government or meditations in exile, 2 vols. 1856. _d._ Penrhyn
arms, Bangor 18 June 1864. _bur._ Rathronan churchyard, co.
Limerick 24 June, statue by Thomas Farrell, R.H.A. erected close
to O’Connell bridge, Dublin 1870. _Cusack’s The liberator: his
life and times_ (1872) 573–5; _Duffy’s Four years of Irish
history_ (1883) 316–7, 331–3, 511, 561; _W. C. Townsend’s Modern
state trials i_ 469–533 (1850); _Sullivan’s New Ireland i_
163–8 (1877); _Clark and Finnelly’s House of Lords cases ii_
465–96 (1851); _T. C. Anstey’s Case as to the legality of the
arrest of W. S. O’Brien_ 1846; _J. G. Hodge’s Report of trial
of W. S. O’Brien for high treason_ 1849; _I.L.N. iv_ 424 (1844)
_portrait_, _viii_ 300 (1846) _portrait_, _xiii_ 92, 220 (1848)
_portrait_.

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

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

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

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

O’CALLAGHAN, WILLIAM FREDERICK ORMONDE (2 son of 2 viscount
Lismore, _b._ 1815). _b._ London 14 Nov. 1852; educ. Eton 1868
etc.; M.P. co. Tipperary Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 20 April 1877.
_Times 23 April 1877 p._ 6.

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

O’CONNELL, CHARLES (son of Daniel O’Connell of Porthagee, co.
Kerry). _b._ 1805; M.P. co. Kerry 1833–4; resident magistrate
in Bantry 1847 to death. _d._ Ballynabloun, co. Kerry 20 Jany.
1877. _Times 23 Jany. 1877 p._ 6.

O’CONNELL, SIR JAMES, (1 Baronet) 4 son of Morgan O’Connell
of Carhen, co. Kerry 1739–1809). _b._ Carhen house, co. Kerry
10 Jany. 1786; educ. Cork; created baronet 29 Oct. 1869. _d._
Lakeview, near Killarney 28 July 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 143 (1872).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O’CONNOR, ARTHUR (3 son of Roger Connor of Connerville). _b._
Mitchelstown, co. Cork 4 July 1765; fellow commoner of Trin.
coll. Dublin 1779 under name of Arthur Connor, B.A. 1782;
called to Irish bar Nov. 1788; member for Philipstown in the
Irish parliament 1791, resigned his seat 4 May 1795; joined the
United Irishmen 1796; formed with lord Edward Fitzgerald the
first Leinster Directory 1796; arrested for seditious libel
Feb. 1797, imprisoned in Dublin Castle six months; chief editor
of The Press, the organ of the United Irishmen 1797; tried at
Maidstone, Kent May 1798 for high treason, when acquitted, but
detained as a state prisoner 1798–1803 for negotiating with
the French general Hoche; confined at Fort George, Scotland
April 1799, released and went to France June 1803; appointed by
Bonaparte a general of division 29 Feb. 1804; _m._ 1807 Eliza de
Condorcet, only dau. of Marquis de Condorcet, the mathematician;
resided in Rue de Tournon, Paris 1818–34, and in the chateau
de Bignon, near Nemours 1834 to death; became a naturalised
Frenchman 1818 and took name of Arthur Condorcet O’Connor;
author of The measures of ministry to prevent a revolution are
the certain means of bringing it on. By a Stoic, Cork 1794; A
letter to the earl of Carlisle 1795; Speech on the Catholic
bill 1795, 3 ed. 1796; State of Ireland 1798; Etat actuel de
la Grande Bretagne 1804; Monopoly the cause of all evil, 3
vols. 1848; edited with Arago The works of Condorcet, 12 vols.
1847–9. _d._ Chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 25 April 1852.
_Madden’s United Irishmen_, _2nd series_, _ii_ 289–324 (1842);
_Biographical Anecdotes of the founders of the Irish rebellion_.
_By A candid observer_ (1799) 38–43; _Biographie Générale
xxxviii_ 451–4 (1862).

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

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

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

O’CONNOR, JOHN (son of Edward O’Connor of Mulgeeth house, co.
Kildare). _b._ 1 May 1837; proprietor of many licensed houses in
Dublin, and of a bacon curing establishment under the name of
Donnelly & Co.; a representative of Inns-quay ward, Dublin 1880,
alderman 1883, lord mayor of Dublin 1885; contested co. Kildare
April 1880; M.P. South Kerry Dec. 1885, resigned Sept. 1887.
_d._ 23 Rutland square, Dublin 12 Jany. 1891. _bur._ Glasnevin
cemet. 15 Jany. _Freeman’s Journal 13 Jany. 1891 p._ 5, _15
Jany. p._ 3.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ODGER, GEORGE, (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). _b._
Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice
to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London;
member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men
in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade
council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder
of the International association; a member of the National
reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a
candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for
Bristol July 1870; contested Southwark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874;
president of general council of international association of
working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London
Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of
Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers;
Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s
reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger _v._ the
publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary
Review 1870–71. _d._ 18 High st. Bloomsbury, London 4 March
1877. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 10 March. _The life of George
Odger_ (1877); _London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait_; _W. E.
Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers_ (1883) 350–2; _Graphic
xv_ 270 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 257 (1877) _portrait_;
_Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia_ (1890) 633–4; _Littell’s
Living age cxxxiii_ 2 (1877), _a poem_.

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

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

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

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

O’DONNELL, LAURENCE, D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to
death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. _d._ Taylor’s hill, Galway 23
June 1855. _bur._ 25 June. _The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855
p._ 2, _27 June p._ 2.

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

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

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

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

O’DONOGHUE, PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; sentenced to death for high
treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. _d._ New York Feb.
1854.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OGDEN, JOHN. _b._ 1790; author of Varieties in verse, including
songs for the celebration of Shakspeare’s birthday 1823; The
friendly observer, or remarks and suggestions on various
subjects of public interest 1851. _d._ 15 Dec. 1853. _bur._
Highgate cemetery. _F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs_ (1872) 146.

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

OGDEN, JONATHAN ROBERT (only son of Robert Ogden, merchant, _d._
1816). _b._ Leeds 13 June 1806; became a unitarian; a piano and
violin player, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and August Kollman in
London; studied music in Paris, Munich, and Vienna 1827; resided
at Lakefield, Sawrey, Lancs. 1834 to death; composed Holy songs
and musical prayers for four voices, London 1843, in which he
adapted pieces by Beethoven and others as hymn tunes, these
adaptations were omitted from the seventh ed. of Holy songs
1873. _d._ Lakefield 26 March 1882. _bur._ Hawkshead churchyard
31 March. _Inquirer 1 April 1882 p._ 207, _22 April pp._ 261–2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OGILVY, GEORGE RAMSAY (son of James Ramsay). _b._ about 1820;
assumed name of Ogilvy; member of faculty of advocates 1844;
sheriff substitute of the Forfar district 25 May 1857; sheriff
substitute of Dundee 16 Oct. 1860, resigned Sept. 1866. _d._
Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1866. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873)
276.

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

OGLANDER, SIR WILLIAM, 6 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Oglander,
_d._ 1806). _b._ Parnham, Dorset 13 Sept. 1769; succeeded 5
Jany. 1806; M.P. Bodmin 1807–12. _d._ Parnham 17 Jany. 1852.
_G.M. xxxvii_ 297 (1852); _Hutchin’s Dorset i_ 445 (1796), _iv_
371 (1815).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O’GORMAN, JUDGE RICHARD. Concerned in Smith O’Brien’s rising in
Ireland 1848; fled to United States. _d._ New York about 28 Feb.
1895.