Chapter LVI: Part 56

O’GORMAN, NICHOLAS PURCELL (only child of James O’Gorman of
Ennis 1717–87). Called to Irish bar 1803; Q.C. 13 July 1835;
chairman and assistant barrister, co. Kilkenny to death. _d._
Dublin 31 Dec. 1857.

O’GORMAN, PURCELL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 1820; educ.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840; 2 lieut. Ceylon regiment 3 Feb.
1843; lieut. 90 foot 9 Dec. 1845, captain 2 April 1852, sold
out 17 Aug. 1855; served in Crimean war 1854–5; M.P. Waterford
1874–80. _d._ Springfield, co. Kilkenny 24 Nov. 1888.

O’GRADY, HAYES (son of Darby O’Grady of Mount Prospect,
Limerick). _b._ 1787; entered navy 4 Dec. 1802; present at
reduction of Cape of Good Hope, and in the expedition to the Rio
de la Plata; captain 7 June 1814; R.A. 1 Oct. 1849; admiral on
h.p. 15 Jany. 1862. _d._ Erinagh house, co. Clare 8 July 1864.

O’GRADY, MICHAEL. _b._ Roscommon, Ireland 1821; resided in
London; sent to Sydney, N.S.W. to establish a branch of the
People’s provident soc. 1855; connected with an insurance
office in Melbourne 1856; member for Villiers and Heytesbury in
legislative assembly of Victoria from 1861; commissioner for
public works 6 May to 11 July 1868, and from 19 June 1871 to 10
June 1872; created by the Pope a knight of St. Gregory 1871.
_d._ Hawthorne, near Melbourne 1875.

O’GRADY, MICHAEL MARTIN. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. 1818;
M.R.I.A.; in practice at Malahide, co. Dublin; member of
botanical committee of Royal Dublin soc.; invented an instrument
for removal of uterine polypi. _d._ La Mancha, Malahide 1858.

OGSTON, FRANCIS (3 son of Alexander Ogston an Aberdeen soap
manufacturer). _b._ Aberdeen July 1803; ed. at gr. sch. and
Marischal coll. Aberdeen; graduated M.D. Edinb. univ. 1824;
physician at Aberdeen; began to teach chemistry privately 1827;
lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Marischal coll. 1839,
and professor of medical jurisprudence 1857–60; professor of
medical jurisprudence univ. of Aberdeen 1860–83; police surgeon
in Aberdeen from 1831; medical officer of health for the city
1862–81; dean of the faculty of medicine in Aberdeen; hon. LL.D.
Aberdeen 1885; author of Lectures on medical jurisprudence
1878. _d._ 13 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sept. 1887. _E. H. B.
Rodgers’s Aberdeen Doctors_ (1893) 201, 301, 312.

O’HAGAN, THOMAS O’HAGAN, 1 Baron (only son of Edward O’Hagan
of Belfast, merchant 1779–1836). _b._ Belfast 29 May 1812;
educ. Belfast academical institution; student of King’s inns,
Dublin Nov. 1831, and bencher 1859; student of Gray’s inn Jany
1834, and hon. bencher 21 Dec. 1883; pupil of Thomas Chitty,
special pleader; called to Irish bar Jany. 1836, went north-east
circuit; edited the Newry Examiner 1836–40; defended C. G.
Duffy, one of the repeal leaders 1843–4; assistant barrister of
co. Longford 1847–57, and of co. Dublin 1857; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849;
third serjeant-at-law 1859; solicitor general for Ireland Feb.
1860 to 1861; attorney general Feb. 1861 to 1865; P.C. Ireland
1861; member of board of national education 1858; M.P. Tralee
May 1863 to Jany. 1865; judge of Irish court of common pleas
Jany. 1865 to Dec. 1868; lord chancellor of Ireland Dec. 1868 to
Feb. 1874, the first Roman catholic chancellor since the reign
of James II, lord chancellor again May 1880, resigned Nov. 1881;
created baron O’Hagan of Tullahogue, co. Tyrone 14 June 1870; an
original member of the intermediate education board 1878, the
first vice-chairman; a senator of royal univ. of Ireland 1880,
and vice-chancellor 1880 to death; K.P. 17 Jany. 1882; author
of Occasional papers and addresses 1884; Selected speeches and
arguments, ed. by George Teeling 1885. _d._ Hereford house,
Park st. London 1 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin,
statue by Farrell in the Four courts, Dublin. _O. J. Burke’s
Lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 314–44 _portrait_; _Pump
court ii_ 126 (1884) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 296 (1865)
_portrait_, _liv_ 385, 446 (1869) _portrait_; _The Period 2 July
1870 p._ 91 _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 4 Feb. 1865 p._ 68
_portrait_.

O’HAGAN, JOHN (2 son of John Arthur O’Hagan of Newry, co. Down).
_b._ Newry 19 March 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842,
M.A. 1865; called to Irish bar 1842, went Munster circuit; a
leader of the Young Ireland party; comr. of board of national
education 1861; chairman of quarter sessions at Westmeath
1864–70, at Leitrim 1870–2, and at Clare 1872–8; Q.C. 8 Feb.
1865; bencher of King’s inns 1878; third serjeant 31 May 1881;
county court judge; judicial comr. under the Land law (Ireland)
act of 1881, with rank of justice of high court of justice Sept.
1881 to death; contributed many poems to The Nation newspaper,
which are collected in The spirit of the nation, Dublin 1874;
author of A lecture on Chaucer in Afternoon lectures on
literature and art 1863; The song of Roland 1880, 2 ed. 1883;
The poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson 1887; The children’s ballad
rosary 1890; Joan of Arc 1893. _d._ Howth, Dublin 12 Nov. 1890.
_D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_ (1893) 188; _Irish Law
Times xxiv_ 578–9 (1890); _Academy ii_ 476 (1890).

O’HALLORAN, HENRY DUNN. Ensign 69 foot 1 Nov. 1818, captain 1
Sept. 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Feb. 1853; major depôt battalion
2 March 1855; lieut. col. 1 West India foot 26 March 1858 to
16 March 1860, when he retired on full pay; M.G. 25 June 1866;
author of Volunteer equipments in war 1861. _d._ Bath 30 Sept.
1871, aged 71.

O’HALLORAN, THOMAS SHULDHAM (2 son of sir Joseph O’Halloran,
G.C.B. 1763–1843). _b._ Berhampore, Bengal 25 Oct. 1797; educ.
Marlow 1808, and at Sandhurst; ensign Royal West Middlesex
militia 1809; ensign 17 foot 2 Feb. 1813, lieut. 1817–22;
served during Nepaul war 1814–6, and Deccan war 1817–8; lieut.
44 foot 1822–7; captain 99 foot 27 April 1827; captain 56 foot
6 March 1828; captain 6 foot 19 Feb. 1829; deputy assistant
Q.M.G. at Saugor, Central India June 1830 to Jany. 1831, placed
on h.p. Oct. 1834; captain 97 foot 27 April 1837, sold out 9
March 1838; suppressed the riots in Yorkshire 1837; settled
near Adelaide, South Australia 1838; a justice of the peace 2
Feb. 1839; major commandant of South Australia militia 26 Feb.
1840; comr. of police 8 June 1840, resigned 12 April 1843;
commanded expeditions against the natives 1840 and 1841; senior
non-official member of the nominee council 1843–51; contested
Noarlunga district 1851, and Sturt 1855; lieut. col. of the
volunteer military force 1854; member of legislative council
1857, resigned 1863. _d._ Lizard lodge, O’Halloran Hill, near
Adelaide 16 Aug. 1870.

O’HARA, HENRY. Called to the Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 4 July 1860;
author of The cotton plant and the countries adapted to its
culture, Manchester 1862. _d._ 19 Nov. 1884.

O’HARA, ROBERT (only son of John O’Hara of Raheen, co. Galway).
_b._ Dublin 1836; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin and Caius coll.
Camb., B.A. 1859; called to Irish bar 1860; parliamentary
draftsman to Irish office in London several years; a member of
statute law revision commission; author of a series of letters
in _The Times_ upon the Irish land question. _d._ Ostend 21
Sept. 1885. _Law Times 7 Nov. 1885 p._ 16.

O’HEA, JAMES (3 son of John O’Hea of Greenfield, Clonakilty, co.
Cork). _b._ 1809; educ. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar
1829, B.A. 1831; called to bar 1838; crown prosecutor for co. of
Limerick 1860 to death, and for county and city of Cork 1849 to
death; a follower of D. O’Connell. _d._ Harcourt st. Dublin 27
May 1882. _Law Times 17 June 1882 p._ 129.

O’HEA, MICHAEL (son of James O’Hea of Woodfield, parish of
Rosscarbery). _b._ Woodfield 12 Aug. 1808; studied at college of
Picpus, Paris 3 years, at college of Larochefoucauld, and grand
séminaire of Angoulême and Irish college, Paris; sub-deacon,
deacon, and priest 1834; held curacies in Ireland 1835–50;
parish priest of Rosscarbery 20 April 1850; vicar general
of Ross 2 Feb. 1851; bishop of Ross 28 Sept. 1857 to death,
consecrated in parish church of Skibbereen 7 Feb. 1858; visited
Rome 1862, 1867 and 1869. _d._ Ross August 1877. _Brady’s
Episcopal succession ii_ 113 (1876).

O’HEA, MISS, known as “Elena Norton.” Composed operetta of ‘The
rose and the ring’; In a valley far away, ballad 1876; Gather ye
rosebuds, song 1878. _d._ Southsea boarding house, West Cliff
road, Bournemouth west, early in March 1880. _Athenæum i_ 419
(1880).

OKE, GEORGE COLWELL (son of Wm. Jane Oke d. Truro July 1859).
_b._ St. Columb Major, Cornwall 8 Feb. 1821; accountant in
a solicitor’s office; assistant clerk to Newmarket bench of
justices 1848; assistant clerk at the Mansion House, London
1855–64, chief clerk 1864 to death; author of The synopsis of
summary convictions 1848, 2 ed. under title of The Magisterial
synopsis 1849, 14 ed. 1893; An improved system of solicitors’
book keeping 1849; The Magisterial formulist 1850, 7 ed. 1893;
The laws of turnpike roads 1854, 2 ed. 1861; A handy book of the
game and fishery laws 1861, 2 ed. 1863; The laws as to licensing
inns 1872, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Rosedale, St. Mary’s road, Peckham,
Surrey 9 Jany. 1874. _bur._ Nunhead cemet. 15 Jany. _Law Journal
ix_, 38 (1874); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 409, 1296
(1874–8); _I.L.N. lxiv_ 80 (1874) _portrait_; _Graphic ix_ 124,
131 (1874) _portrait_.

O’KEEFE, ADELAIDE D. (only dau. of John O’Keefe, dramatist
1747–1833). _b._ Eustace st. Dublin 5 Nov. 1776; contributed 34
poems to Taylor’s Original poems for infant minds, by several
young persons, 2 vols. 1804, her pieces are signed Adelaide;
author of Original poems calculated to improve the mind of youth
and to allure it to virtue, Part i 1808; National characters
1808; Patriarchal times, or the land of Canaan, 2 vols. 1811,
6 ed. 1842; Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a narrative founded on
history, 2 vols. 1814; A trip to the coast, poems 1819; Dudley,
3 vols. 1819; Poems for young children 1849; The broken sword, a
tale 1854; she was living at 3 Spring place hill, Southampton in
April 1848. _d._ about 1855. _Athenæum 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 762; _N.
and Q. 7 May 1887 p._ 361, _18 June p._ 503.

O’KEEFE, EUGENE. _b._ Cork; educ. St. Francis Xavier college,
and at the Sulpitian college, Montreal; attached to the
household of the bishop of Toronto until 1864; in charge of a
parish in New Jersey; a great linguist and classical scholar.
_d._ New York 22 Sept. 1880.

O’KEEFE, JOHN (son of Patrick O’Keefe of Abbeyville). _b._
Waterford 1827; educ. Clongowes coll.; sheriff of Waterford
1865; M.P. Dungarvan 1874 to death; resided Mountain castle,
Cappoquin. _d._ Stephen’s Green club, Dublin 10 June 1877.

O’KEEFE, MATHIAS. _b._ 1830; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1860;
M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; librarian Queen’s coll. Cork 1855–75;
examiner in the Royal university; employed as an analyst in
criminal cases; professor of materia medica at Queen’s coll.
Cork and lecturer on medical jurisprudence 1875 to death. _d._
17 St. Patrick’s hill, Cork 19 May 1884. _Medical Times 24 May
1884 p._ 719.

O’KEEFE, ROBERT. _b._ Callan, co. Kilkenny; chaplain to a
convent in Kilkenny, removed by Dr. Walsh, bishop of Ossory
1849; priest at Rathdowney to 1863; parish priest of Callan
1863; attempted to establish a community of nuns from Beziers
in France May 1869, but Dr. Walsh refused his sanction; tried
to make the National school at Callan a school for higher
education, named it the Callan academy, and sought to make
French the normal language of the school; brought actions for
libel against his bishop, suspended Oct. 1870; suspended from
all ecclesiastical functions by cardinal Cullen, acting under
authority from the Pope 13 Nov. 1871; brought an action against
the cardinal in queen’s bench Ireland, obtained one farthing
damages 27 May 1873; submitted to the Cardinal May 1876; author
of Ultramontanism versus civil and religious liberty 1875. _d._
2 Feb. 1881. _The Callan case_ 1872; _Cardinal Cullen and the
P. P. Callan_ 1872; _Court of queen’s bench, R. O’Keefe against
cardinal Cullen_ 1874; _Ultramontanism versus education_, _the
case of Father O’Keefe_ 1875; _The Dublin review July 1873 pp._
211–38; _Irish reports Common law series vii_ 319–444 (1874).

O’KELLY, JOSEPH (2 son of Matthias Joseph O’Kelly,
conchologist). _b._ Dublin 31 Oct. 1832; educ. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860; employed on the geological survey
of Ireland 1854; secretary to the survey Oct. 1865 to death;
wrote many geological memoirs, published by the survey; M.R.I.A.
1866. _d._ 13 April 1883. _Geological Mag._ (1883) 288.

OKES, RICHARD (19 child of Thomas Verney Okes of Cambridge,
surgeon). _b._ Cambridge 25 Dec. 1797; educ. Eton and King’s
coll. Camb., scholar 1817, fellow 1820–6, Browne’s medallist
1819–21; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1848; master at Eton
1823–38, lower master 1838–50, member of the governing body;
provost of King’s coll. Camb. Nov. 1850 to death, abandoned
the old regulations and obtained for the college a high rank
in the university; vice-chancellor 1851; gave with Dr. Hawtrey
the heraldic window in the school museum at Eton; chairman of
Cambridge water co. 1858–87; edited Musæ Etonenses, new series
1796–1833, 2 vols. 1859–69; author of Epigrammata numismate
annuo dignata et in curia Cantabrigiensis recitata 1819, 1820
and 1820, 3 vols. _d._ The lodge, King’s coll. Cambridge 25 Nov.
1888. _bur._ King’s college chapel. _Saturday Review lxvi_ 647–8
(1888).

OKEY, CHARLES HENRY (son of Henry Okey). _b._ 7 April 1797;
educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1805 and at Heidelberg univ.;
barrister I.T. 9 May 1823; private sec. to lord Stuart de
Rothesay, when ambassador to France 1828–30; counsel to British
embassy at Paris; police magistrate Antigua 1862, puisne justice
and member of council Aug. 1863; knight of legion of honor;
author of Droit d’ Aubaine de la Grande Britaine, Paris 1830, 2
ed. 1831; A concise digest of the law affecting the commercial
and civil intercourse of the subjects of Great Britain and
France, 2 ed. 1829, 6 ed. 1842. _d._ 1876.

OKEY, ELIZABETH. _b._ 1824; she and her sister Jane, _b._ 1826,
were cured of epileptic fits by Dr. John Elliotson by mesmerism;
they were experimented on by Dr. Elliotson at his residence in
Conduit st. Hanover sq. London 1842, before audiences, when he
made them do many wonderful things in a mesmeric state; E. Okey
was an inmate of University college hospitals under Dr. John
Elliotson from April 1837; she developed a power of seeing
spirits sitting on the beds of patients who were about to die,
which had a baneful effect on all the patients; turned out of
the the hospital 28 Dec. 1838. _T. Wakley’s Undeniable facts
concerning practices of Dr. Elliotson with E. & J. Okey_ (1842);
_The Lancet 5 Jany. 1839 pp._ 561–2, 590–7.

OLD, JOHN. _b._ Totnes 1829; studied under John and Edward Loder
1842, and at Royal academy of music under sir W. S. Bennett,
and afterwards under Thalberg and Molique; conductor of Torquay
choral soc. 1855–9; settled at Reading 1859, where he founded
the Layston college of music, which had 200 pupils; composer of
The seventh seal, a sacred drama 1853; The battle, a dramatic
solo and chorus 1854; Herne, a legend of royal Windsor, an opera
in 3 acts, libretto by E. Oxenford 1879, performed at Reading;
his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces of music 1849–79;
he also contributed essays to The Monthly musical record. _d._
Reading 4 Feb. 1892.

OLDAKER, WILLIAM FITZHARDINGE (son of Tom Oldaker, huntsman).
_b._ Woodbank, Gerrard’s Cross 1810; a saddler at Finsbury
and Upper Brook street, London, his hunting saddles were in
much request; a dealer in horses; rode in a steeplechase 1838;
managed the stag hunting establishments of barons Lionel and
Nathaniel Rothschild; ran a match with John Darby at Horncastle;
retired and lived at Gerrard’s cross, Middlesex; resided at
Newbold-on-Avon near Rugby 1865, where he hunted with all the
neighbouring packs; retired to Woodbank, Chester 1880. _d._
Woodbank 6 Sept. 1884. _W. Day’s Turf Celebrities_ (1891)
107–16; _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 121–2 (1885).

OLDFIELD, JOHN (only son of John Nicholls Oldfield, lieutenant
in royal marines, _d._ 1793). _b._ Portsmouth 29 May 1789; 2
lieut. R.E. 2 April 1806, captain 26 Jany. 1815, placed on h.p.
April 1819; served at battle of Waterloo and the occupation of
Paris; commanded the R.E. in Newfoundland Sept. 1830 to Oct.
1835, in Jersey Oct. 1835 to March 1839, and in Canada March
1839 to 1843, where he served during the rebellion; K.H. 23
July 1830; A.D.C. to the queen 9 Nov. 1841; colonel R.E. 9 Nov.
1846, col. commandant 25 Oct. 1859 to death; commanded the R.E.
in Ireland 1848–54; general 3 April 1862; contributed Memoranda
on the use of asphalte to the Professional papers of the corps
of the R.E., new series, vols. 3 and 5. _d._ Oldfield lawn,
Emsworth, Sussex 2 Aug. 1863. _bur._ Westbourne.

OLDHAM, JAMES. _b._ 17 Jany. 1817; educ. Guy’s hospital;
L.S.A. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1865; in practice at 53
Norfolk square, Brighton 1842–80; a founder of the Brighton and
Sussex medical chirurgical soc. 1847, president; purchased and
supported a coffee tavern; chief supporter of St. Christopher’s
home for sick children at Hayward’s Heath. _d._ Lucastes,
Hayward’s Heath 26 Dec. 1881. _Lancet i_ 40 (1882).

OLDHAM, JAMES (son of a millwright). _b._ Hull 23 June 1801;
at sea in the Baltic 1815–7; an apprentice to his father 1817;
built a movable bridge for Hull corporation; reclaimed for the
commissioners of woods and forests 700 acres in the estuary of
the Humber 1850; government inspector of steamers for Hull;
gave evidence before parliamentary committee on public works
connected with Hull; wrote a paper on the Reclamation of
land from seas and estuaries, for which he obtained Council
premium of Institution of Civil engineers 1862; superintended
tidal observations on the Humber, Trent and Ouse for British
Association 1862–4; took George Bohn into partnership 1874, made
the Hull and Barnsley railway and the Alexandra dock; M.I.C.E.
28 Jany. 1834. _d._ Hull 10 June 1890. _Min. of proc. of Instit.
of C.E. ciii_ 377–80 (1891).

OLDHAM, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Oldham). _b._ Dublin 4 May
1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin 1832, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846, LL.D.
1874; chief geological assistant in ordnance survey of Ireland
1839, surveyed counties of Kerry and Tyrone 1843; assistant
professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, professor of
geology 1845–51; president of Dublin geological society 1846;
local director for Ireland of geological survey of the United
Kingdom 1846; discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, co. Wicklow,
the fossils or organic marks named after him Oldhamia 1849;
superintendent of geological survey of India Nov. 1850, retired
1876; M.R.I.A. 1842; F.G.S. 1843; F.R.S. 9 June 1848, royal
medallist 1875; member of royal Asiatic society of Bengal 1857,
president four times; author of On the geological structure of
part of the Khasi hills 1854; Memoirs of the geological survey
of India, Palentologia Indica 1861; Memoranda on the result of
an examination of the salt range in the Punjab 1864; Catalogue
of the meteoric stones in the museum of the Geological survey
of India 1865, 2 ed. 1868; Catalogue of the organic remains
belonging to the echinodermata 1865; edited Records of the
Geological survey of India 1868 etc. _d._ 18 Hillmorton’s road,
Rugby 17 July 1878. _Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv_ 46–8
(1879); _Geological Mag._ (1878) 382.

OLDHAM, WILTON. _b._ 1835; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.,
LL.B. and LL.D. 1865; of Bengal civil service; magistrate at
Ghazipore; C. of St. Michael, Louth 1878–80; C. of Stoke Bishop,
Bristol 1880 to death; author of Historical and statistical
memoir of Ghazipore 2 vols. 1870–6; Tenant right and auction
sales in Ghazipore 1873. _d._ St. Servan, France 2 Oct. 1883.

OLDKNOW, SIR JAMES (son of John Oldknow). _b._ Nottingham 1821;
a lace manufacturer; alderman of Nottingham, mayor 1869, 1878,
and 1879; after the visit of the prince and princess of Wales to
open the Castle Art museum, knighted at Osborne 14 Aug. 1878.
_d._ Villa road, Nottingham 4 Jany. 1888.

OLDKNOW, JOSEPH (son of Octavius Oldknow mayor of Nottingham).
_b._ Nottingham 16 March 1809; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1831, M.A. 1835; D.D. of Hartford univ. U.S. of America 1857;
V. of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, Birmingham 1841 to death; leader
of high church party in Birmingham, established daily services
and the observance of saints’ day 1841; he was libelled by marks
put on the copper coins, such as ‘Oldknow is a papist and has
pay from Rome,’ others were marked ‘No surplice,’ and such coins
were at times thrown through the windows into the church during
service time; the first in Birmingham to establish early weekly
communion and harvest festivals; author of The catholic church,
its nature, constitution and privileges 1839; A letter on the
relations of the church of England to the church of Rome and the
protestant bodies 1848; A month in Portugal 1855; The validity
of the holy orders in the church of England 1857; Anti-ritual
proceedings, a letter to the clergy of the rural deanery of
Birmingham 1866; Sermons on various points of doctrine and
practice 1868; and with A. D. Crake The priest’s book of private
devotion 1872, 4 ed. 1891. _d._ Birmingham 3 Sept. 1874. _bur._
Holy Trinity churchyard. _Guide to the church congress_ (1883)
54–5.

O’LEARY, DANIEL FLORENCE. Served in the war of Colombian
independence, general of brigade; aide-de-camp to general
Bolivar 1819–27; British consul at Puerto Cabello 11 Aug. 1841;
chargé d’ affaires and consul general in New Granada 28 Nov.
1843 to death. _d._ 24 Feb. 1854.

O’LEARY, ELLEN (dau. of a shopkeeper). _b._ Tipperary 1831;
contributed verse to The Commercial journal, The Irishman,
The Shamrock, and to the Irish People newspaper Nov. 1863 to
15 Sept. 1865, when the paper was seized by the government;
assisted James Stephens, chief organiser of the Irish republic,
in directing the affairs of the Fenian organisation; raised £200
on a mortgage of her property to help Stephens to escape from
Ireland 1866; resided in Tipperary 1866–85, and with her brother
John O’Leary in Dublin from 1885. _d._ Cork 16 Oct. 1889. _Ellen
O’Leary’s Lays of country, home and friends_ (1891) _portrait_;
_A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century_ (1893) 449–58; _Irish
Monthly xvii_ 83–94 (1889); _Academy xl_ 70 (1891).

O’LEARY, WILLIAM HAGERTY (son of Thomas O’Leary of Charleston
road, co. Dublin). _b._ 16 June 1839; educ. catholic univ.
Ireland, gold medallist; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1861, F.R.C.S. Ireland
1871; professor of anatomy and physiology at Sedwick school of
medicine 1872–4; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin to
1874; M.P. Drogheda 5 Feb. 1874 to death; wrote on Original
researches on the sources of animal heat; New theory on the
functions of iron in the blood; Food, its relation to animal
heat and muscular motion; received a treasury grant to assist
him in prosecuting investigations in scientific philosophy. _d._
1 Cottage green, Camberwell, London 15 Feb. 1880.

OLIPHANT, SIR ANTHONY (3 son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie,
Perth, _d._ 1807). _b._ Condie 1793; educ. Hyde Abbey school;
advocate Edinburgh; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; attorney
general, Cape of Good Hope 1826–38; chief justice of Ceylon 22
Oct. 1838, retired on a pension 1855; knighted by patent 7 Aug.
1839; C.B. 27 April 1848. _d._ London 9 March 1859. _Gent. Mag.
vi_ 429 (1859).

OLIPHANT, FRANCIS ROMANO (younger son of the succeeding). _b._
Rome Oct.-Dec. 1859; educ. Eton, at Balliol coll. Oxf. and
at New Inn hall; B.A. 1883; assistant to R. R. Holmes in the
royal library at Windsor castle; contributed frequently to The
Spectator and other periodicals; assisted his mother M. O.
Oliphant in the preparation of her Victorian age of literature
1892; author of Notes of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy
Land 1891. _d._ about 4 Oct. 1894. _Times 5 Oct. 1894 p._ 3, _13
Oct. p._ 6.

NOTE.--His elder brother Cyril Francis Oliphant, _b._ 1856, educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1883, published in 1890 in the Foreign classics series A biography and criticism of the work of Alfred de Musset, he _d._ 1890.

OLIPHANT, FRANCIS WILSON (son of Thomas Oliphant of Edinburgh).
_b._ Newcastle 31 Aug. 1818; educ. Edinburgh academy of art;
designer of painted glass in the works of Messrs. Wailes of
Newcastle; worked with Welby Pugin in London, especially upon
the painted windows in new houses of parliament; sent in a
cartoon to the competition for the decoration of Westminster
Hall; exhibited the Prodigal son nearing home and 4 other
pictures at R.A. 1849–55; produced the windows in the
ante-chapel of King’s college, Cambridge, those in the chancel
of Aylesbury church, and designed the famous choristers’ window
in Ely cathedral; author of A plea for painted glass 1855. _d._
Rome Oct. 1859.

OLIPHANT, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ 1822; connected with Drury lane
theatre 1842–46; edited Weekly Despatch; edited Sunday Times to
death; resided 8 Brigstock road, Croydon. _d._ Clapham, London 5
March 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 10 March.

OLIPHANT, LAURENCE (only child of sir Anthony Oliphant
1793–1859). _b._ Capetown 1829; private secretary to his
father in Ceylon 1848; called to the bar in Ceylon; barrister
Lincoln’s Inn 30 April 1855; secretary to lord Elgin during
negotiation at Washington of reciprocity treaty with Canada
1854; superintendent of Indian affairs at Quebec 1854; went to
the Crimea with lord Stratford de Redcliffe 1855; joined the
force under Omar Pasha, present at battle of the Ingour 6 Nov.
1855, was correspondent of The Times during this expedition; a
candidate for Stirling 1855; private secretary to lord Elgin in
China and Japan 1857–9; first secretary of legation in Japan,
arrived at Yeddo June 1861, severely wounded by a Japanese 5
July, returned to England; started with sir Algernon Borthwick
and others a journal called The Owl 1864, contributed to the
first ten numbers; M.P. the Stirling burghs 13 July 1865 to
April 1868; joined the community of The Brotherhood of the New
Life, of which Thomas Lake Harris was the leader, at Brockton
Junction or Salem-on-Erie, Chautauqua county, United States of
America 1867, where he gave all his money to the community and
was employed in very menial occupations; Times correspondent
in the Franco-German war 1870–71; _m._ June 1872 at St.
George’s, Hanover sq. London, Alice, dau. of Henry le Strange
of Hunstanton, Norfolk (she _d._ at Haifa, Syria 2 Jany. 1886
aged 40), returned with his wife and mother to Brockton by
Harris’s orders 1873; recovered his land at Brockton by legal
proceedings from Harris May 1881; resided a great deal at Mount
Carmel, Palestine from 1882; _m._ (2) at Malvern 16 Aug. 1888
Rosamond Dale, dau. of Robert Dale Owen; author of A journey to
Khatmandu 1852; The Russian shores of the Black Sea 1853; The
Trans-Caucasian campaign under Omar Pasha, a personal narrative
1856; Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s mission to China and
Japan in the years 1857–8–9, 2 vols. 1859; Patriots and
filibusters incidents of political and exploratory travel 1860;
Universal suffrage and Napoleon the Third 1860; Piccadilly, a
fragment of contemporary biography 1870, 5 ed. 1874; The land of
Gilead with excursions in the Lebanon 1880; The land of Khemi,
up and down the Middle Nile 1882; Traits and travesties 1882;
Altiora Peto, 2 vols. 1883; Massollam, 3 vols. 1886; Episodes
in a life of adventure 1887; Fashionable philosophy 1887; The
star in the east 1887; Scientific religion 1888; author with
Alice Oliphant of Sympneumata 1885. _d._ at residence of sir M.
G. Duff, York house, Richmond road, Twickenham 23 Dec. 1888.
_M. O. W. Oliphant’s Memoir of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice,
his wife_, 2 _vols._ (1891) _with portraits_; _L. Liesching’s
Personal reminiscences of L. Oliphant_ (1891); _R. Mac Cully’s
Brotherhood of the new life_ (1893) 146–61; _The Times 21 Jany.
1886 p._ 7, _23 Jany. p._ 10.

NOTE.--He is described under name of Cyril Gordon in Haskett Smith’s novel For God and humanity, a romance of Mount Carmel, 3 vols. 1891, the dedication is inscribed ‘To the memory of my beloved friend Laurence Oliphant.’

OLIPHANT, THOMAS (son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie,
Strathearn, Perthshire). _b._ Condie 25 Dec. 1799; educ.
Winchester; member of the stock exchange, London a short time;
member of the Madrigal society 1830, adapted for the use of its
members English words to Italian madrigals, honorary secretary
of the society many years, president 1871; sang as a bass
vocalist in the chorus at the Handel festival, Westminster
Abbey 1834; engaged cataloguing the music at British museum
some years; wrote English versions of Beethoven’s Fidelio and
the Mount of Olives, and the words for many songs; author of
Comments of a chorus singer at the royal musical festival in
Westminster abbey. By Solomon Sackbut 1834; A brief account of
the Madrigal society 1835; A short account of madrigals 1836;
La musa madrigalesia 1837; In C. E. Pascoe’s Everyday life
in our public schools 1881 he wrote the section Life among
the Oppidans, Eton pp. 37–62; edited and arranged Catches and
rounds by Old Composers 1835; Ditties of the olden time 1835;
Ten favourite madrigals 1836; German songs adapted to English
words, two series, Nos. 1 to 40, 1838–49; Six ancient part songs
for five voices 1845; Six English songs 1847; Select German and
English vocal duets 1849; Phœbe and Corydon by W. Croft 1853;
National and popular ballads 1863; his name is attached to
upwards of 70 pieces, chiefly of arranged music 1835–73. _d._
Great Marlborough st. London 9 March 1873, his collection of
ancient music sold by Puttick and Simpson April 24–6.

OLIPHANT, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 14 Jany. 1807; bookseller as
Wm. Oliphant & co. 7 South Bridge, Edinburgh 1831 to death. _d._
21 Buccleuch place, Edinb. 13 Nov. 1860. _Bookseller Dec. 1860
p._ 908.

OLIVEIRA, BENJAMIN (3 son of Dominick Oliveira of Madeira, then
of London, merchant, naturalised by R.L. 30 Aug. 1811, and _d._
1846). _b._ England 24 June 1806; contested Reading 8 Jany.
1835; M.P. Pontefract 8 July 1852 to 20 March 1857; F.R.S. 4
June 1835; revived the Star club 1830, president 1831 to death,
in 1855 sir F. G. Moon the lord mayor conferred on the club a
charter constituting it The Star club of London; author of Wine
duties reduction, committee proceedings 1861; A few observations
on the works of the isthmus of Suez canal 1863; A visit to the
Spanish camp in Morocco during the late war 1863. _d._ 8 Upper
Hyde Park st. London 28 Sept. 1865. _Memorials of Star club of
London_ (1860) _memoir and portrait_; _G. M. xix_ 658 (1865);
_I.L.N. xxii_ 277, 278 (1853) _portrait_.

OLIVER, EMMA SOPHIA (dau. of W. Eburne of Rathbone place,
London, coachbuilder). _b._ 15 Aug. 1819; exhibited 34
landscapes at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. 1842–74;
member of New society of painters in water-colours 1849; _m._
1840 Wm. Oliver landscape painter 1804–53; _m._ (2) about 1856
John Sedgwick of Watford, Herts, solicitor, _b._ 1812, _d._ 23
Oct. 1882. She _d._ Brewery house, Great Berkhamstead 15 March
1885. _Clayton’s English female artists ii_ 227–30 (1876).

OLIVER, GEORGE. _b._ Newington, Butts, Surrey 9 Feb. 1781;
educ. Sedgley park, Staffs. and Stonyhurst college 11 years;
ordained at Durham May 1806; served the mission of the society
of Jesus at St. Nicholas, Exeter Oct. 1807 to 6 Oct. 1851, but
never became a member of the society; hon. member of Historical
society of Boston 30 March 1843; created D.D. by Pope Gregory
XVI 15 Sept. 1844; provost of the chapter of Plymouth 1852–7;
author of Historic collections relating to the monasteries
in Devon 1820; The history of Exeter 1821, 2 ed. 1861;
Ecclesiastical antiquities in Devon, 3 vols. 1840–2; Collections
towards illustrating the biography of the Scotch, English and
Irish members of the society of Jesus 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Merrye
Englaunde or the golden daies of goode queene Besse 1841,
anon.; Monasticon diœcesis Exoniensis, a collection of records
illustrating conventual, collegiate and eleemosynary foundations
in the counties of Cornwall and Devon and a supplement 1846,
additional supplement 1854; Collections illustrative of the
history of the Catholic religion in the counties of Cornwall,
Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts. and Gloucester 1857; Lives of
the bishops of Exeter and a history of the cathedral 1861. _d._
St. Nicholas priory, Exeter 23 March 1861. _bur._ near the high
altar in the chapel 2 April. _T. N. Brushfield’s Bibliography
of the rev. G. Oliver_ (1885) _portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub. i_ 410 (1874); _G.M. x_ 575–7 (1861).

OLIVER, GEORGE (eld. son of Samuel Oliver, R. of Lambley,
Notts.). _b._ Papplewick, Notts. 5 Nov. 1782; educ. Nottingham;
second master of gr. sch. at Caistor, Lincs. 1803–9; head master
of Great Grimsby gr. sch. 1809; C. of Grimsby 1814–32; V. of
Clee, Lincs. 1815–35; V. of Scopwick, Lincs. 12 Oct. 1831 to
death; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1834–46; created D.D.
by archbishop of Canterbury 25 July 1835; R. of South Hyckham,
Lincs. 1846 to death; deputy past grand master of masons for
Lincolnshire 1832; author of The antiquities of freemasonry
1823 and 1843; The star in the east 1825, new ed. 1842; The
monumental antiquities of Great Grimsby, Hull, 1825; The history
and antiquities of the Town and minster of Beverley 1829;
History of the Holy Trinity guild at Sleaford, Lincoln 1837;
Historical landmarks and other evidences of freemasonry, 2 vols.
1845–6; The golden remains of the early masonic writers, 5 vols.
1847–50; The book of the lodge or officer’s manual 1849, 4 ed.
1879. _d._ Eastgate, Lincoln 3 March 1867, _bur._ in cemetery
attached to St. Swithin’s church 7 March.

OLIVER, JOHN (son of John Oliver, shopkeeper). _b._ Llanfynydd,
Carmarthenshire 7 Nov. 1838; educ. Carmarthen sch. and at
Carmarthen presbyterian college to 1859; Congregational minister
and an occasional preacher in Welsh and English; author of Welsh
poems on David, the prince of the Lord; The beauties of nature;
The widow of Nain; The wreck of the Royal Charter and Myfyrdod;
author of English poems on Life, and When I die. _d._ Llanfynydd
24 June 1866. _Cerddi Cystudd edited by Henry Oliver_ (1867)
_portrait_.

OLIVER, JOHN. _b._ 1804; educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1847; V. of Warmington, near Oundle 1844–73; chaplain to
King’s college hospital, London 1855–62; warden of the London
diocesan penitentiary, Highgate 1862 to death, where he was
very successful in the reformation of the poor girls. _d._ The
Penitentiary, Highgate 10 July 1883. _Guardian 11 July 1883 p._
1023.

OLIVER, MARTHA CRANMER (dau. of John Oliver, scene-painter).
_b._ Salisbury 1834; appeared at Salisbury theatre 1840; first
appeared in London at Marylebone theatre 1847; played at Lyceum
1849–55; always known as Pattie Oliver; acted Matilda in Married
for money at Drury Lane 10 Oct. 1855, and Celia in As you like
it 4 Sept. 1856; played in Talfourd’s burlesque of Atalanta
at Haymarket 14 April 1857; leading actress at Strand theatre
1858–61, where she played Amy Robsart in Ye queen, ye earl and
ye maiden 29 Dec. 1858, Pauline in Byron’s burlesque The lady of
Lyons 14 June 1859, Lisetta in Talfourd’s burlesque Tell and the
strike of the cantons 26 Dec. 1859, and the Prince in Byron’s
burlesque Cinderella 26 Dec. 1860; the original Mary Meredith in
Our American cousin at Haymarket 16 Nov. 1861; played Beautiful
Haidee in Byron’s burlesque of that name at Princess’s 10 April
1863; lessee and manager of New Royalty theatre March 1866 to
30 April 1870; played Meg in H. T. Craven’s Meg’s Diversion 17
Oct. 1866; produced F. C. Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition
of Black-eyed Susan, in which she played Susan 29 Nov. 1866,
which ran 420 nights and was revived 3 March 1870; produced
A. Halliday’s drama Daddy Gray 1 Feb. 1868, and his drama The
loving cup 26 Nov. 1868; _m._ 26 Dec. 1876 Wm. Charles Phillips
of Bond st. London, auctioneer; she _d._ 5 Grove end road, St.
John’s Wood, London 20 Dec. 1880. _The Players i_ 97–8 (1860)
_portrait_.

OLIVER, NATHANIEL WILMOT. Second lieut. R.A. 2 June 1796,
colonel 10 Jany. 1837; col. commandant 18 Feb. 1851 to death;
M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Clifton 11 Jany. 1854.

OLIVER, RICHARD ALDWORTH (son of admiral Robert Dudley Oliver).
_b._ 1811; entered navy 26 April 1825, lieut. 28 June 1838,
captain 11 Dec. 1854, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27
Oct. 1884; served at battle of Navarino 1827; commanded the
Monarch in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854; chairman of
the sanitary committee of Marylebone, London to death; published
A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand
1853. _d._ 38 Grove-end road, St. John’s Wood, London 13 Sept.
1889.

OLIVER, RICHARD SILVER (1 son of Robert S. Oliver of Darrington,
Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, _d._ 1842). Educ. Eton; cornet royal
horse guards 29 July 1830, captain 16 Dec. 1836, sold out 25
June 1844; hunted at Melton, Bicester and Northampton; settled
at Bolton Percy, Yorkshire; a supporter of the Bramham Moor
hounds; a coachman and a good shot. _d._ Bolton lodge Feb. 1889.
_Baily’s Mag. li_ 208–9 (1889).

OLIVER, SAMUEL. _b._ 1801; V. of Calverton, near Nottingham 1826
to death; author of Emma Whiteford, or death in the bosom of the
church 1852; War and its probable consequences as foreshadowed
in holy scripture 1855; Village lectures on some controverted
articles of Catholic faith. _d._ in a cottage in Calverton
village Sept. 1874. _bur._ 1 Oct.

OLIVER, THOMAS. _b._ about 1776; founded with George Boyd, firm
of Oliver and Boyd, publishers, Edinburgh 1806, retired in 1843
after George Boyd’s death. _d._ Newington lodge, Edinburgh 26
April 1853.

OLIVER, THOMAS. _b._ Breadlow, Bucks. June 1789; employed
by Mr. Baker of Millbank, London, gardener; fought and beat
Kimber a stone-mason at Tothill Fields, Westminster 1811;
always known afterwards as the Chelsea gardener; beat George
Cooper at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 15 May 1813, and Edward Painter
at Shepperton Range, Middlesex 17 May 1814; landlord of the
Duke’s Head 31 Peter st. Westminster 1814; fought Jack Carter
at Gretna Green for 100 guineas a side 4 Oct. 1816, when he
was badly beaten in 32 rounds lasting 46 minutes; beaten by
Wm. Neat at Rickmansworth, Herts. 10 July 1818 in 28 rounds
lasting one hour; beat Kendrick the black 28 May 1819; beaten
by Daniel Donnelly, the Irish champion 21 July 1819 at Crawley
Hurst, Sussex for 100 guineas a side; beat Tom Shelton at
Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 13 Jany. 1820; beaten by Edward Painter
at North Walsham, Norfolk 17 July 1820; beaten by Tom Spring at
Hayes, Middlesex 20 Feb. 1821 for 100 guineas a side 25 rounds
in 55 minutes; beaten by T. Hickman 12 June 1821 at Blindow
Heath, Surrey for £100 a side; beaten by Wm. Abbott at Moulsey
Hurst 6 Nov. 1821, 33 rounds in 54 minutes; commissary of the
ring, taking charge of the ropes and stakes; beat Benjamin Burn
at Hampton, Middlesex 28 Jany. 1834; a fruiterer and greengrocer
in Pimlico and Chelsea. _d._ London June 1864. _H. D. Miles’s
Pugilistica ii_ 89–103 (1880) _portrait_; _The Fancy. By An
Operator i_ 609–16 (1826) _portrait_; _Boxiana ii_ 954 (1818),
_iii_ 262 (1825) _portrait_, _iv_ 233 _etc._; _Hannan’s British
boxing_, _part_ 2, _pp._ 43–6.

OLIVER, THOMAS. _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 6
Bengal N.I. 18 May 1805, captain 16 Nov. 1818; major 3 N.I. 13
July 1827; lieut. col. of 3 N.I 3 July 1832 to 1838, and of
12 N.I. 1838 to 10 April 1843; col. of 37 N.I. 13 March 1844
to 1869; general 19 June 1866. _d._ 43 Duke street, Grosvenor
square, London 22 April 1872.

OLIVER, THOMAS (son of a farmer and maltster). _b._ Angmering,
Sussex; a stable boy to his uncle, Mr. Page of Epsom; rode
light weights for lord Mountcharles; sold horses at fairs
for Mr. Farrell of Liverpool; became a steeple chase rider;
rode Harlequin at Clifton and won; won the Great Dunchurch
steeplechase on Foreigner; a partner with Mr. Curlewis; in
Northampton gaol for debt; landlord of The Star at Leamington;
won the Great Liverpool on Jerry; a steeple chaser trainer at
Prestbury; brought out Charles Boyce and Robert James. _Sporting
Review xli_ 249–54 (1859).

OLIVER, WILLIAM. _b._ about 1804; landscape painter, chiefly in
water-colours; member of the New society (now royal institute)
of painters in water-colours 1834; exhibited 29 pictures at
R.A., 54 at B.I., and 36 at Suffolk st. 1829–53; published
Scenery of the Pyrenees, lithographed by G. Barnand, T. S. Boys,
Carl Hughe and others 1843. _d._ Langley Mill house, Halstead,
Essex 2 Nov. 1853.

OLLENDORFF, HEINRICK GODEFROY, OR HERMANN GERSCHAL. _b._
Rewitsch, Posen, Prussia about 1802; professor of the German
language and literature; resided in 1843 at 23 Titchbourne st.
Westminster; his system of acquiring a language was founded on
the principle, that each question contained nearly the answer
required to be returned; Capt. Basil Hall recommended this
system to the English; naturalised in England 20 Dec. 1850;
author of A new method of learning to read, write and speak
a language in six months, adapted to the German, two parts
1838–41; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to
the French 1843, 9 ed. 1861; A new method of learning to read,
etc., applied to the Italian 1846, 5 ed. 1865; Nouvelle méthode
pour apprendre à lire, à écrire et à parler une language en
six mois, appliquée à l’Anglais, Paris 1848, 6 ed. 1856; A new
method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the Spanish 1858;
Introduction à la méthode Ollendorff, appliquée au Latin, Paris
1862; the above works all went to many editions in various
languages, with keys to them in other volumes. _d._ Paris 1865.

NOTE.--On 10 Dec. 1850 he obtained an injunction against Alexander Black to restrain him from selling a pirated edition of A new method of learning French, originally published in London by Ollendorff 25 April 1843. The son Paul Ollendorff is a teacher of languages at 28 bis Rue de Richelieu, Paris.

OLLIER, CHARLES. _b._ Bath, Somersetshire 1788; clerk in Coutt’s
bank, Strand, London 1802; publisher with his brother James
Ollier at 3 Welbeck st. and then in Vere st. Bond st. 1816–22;
a friend of Leigh Hunt; published Leigh Hunt’s Foliage 1818,
Hero and Leander 1819, and The story of Rimini, 2 ed. 1819; also
Keats’s Poems 1817, and Shelley’s The revolt of Islam 1817,
the Collected works of Charles Lamb 1818, and several of Barry
Cornwall’s volumes of Poems; literary adviser to Henry Colburn
and then to Richard Bentley; a lecturer on celebrated writers;
a publisher in Southampton st. Strand, London 1845–9; author
of Altham and his wife, a domestic tale 1818; Inesilla, or the
tempter, a romance, with other tales 1824; Ferrers, a romance, 3
vols. 1842; Fallacy of ghosts, dreams, and omens, with stories
of witchcraft, life-in-death, and monomania 1848; Original views
of London 1842, and Original views of Oxford 1843, 2 vols.,
letterpress by C. Ollier. _d._ 5 Caroline place, Fulham road,
London 5 June 1859. _Correspondence of Leigh Hunt i_ 308–11,
_ii_ 61 _etc._ (1862); _Spectator 18 June 1859 p._ 640; _Lady
Shelley’s Shelley memorials_ (1875) _ix_ 80 _etc._; _Temple Bar
lviii_ 243–52 (1880); _St. James’s Mag. xxxv_ 387–413 (1875).

OLLIER, EDMUND (son of the preceding). _b._ near London 26
Nov. 1826; wrote for Ainsworth’s magazine, the Athenæum, All
the year round 1850–70, and Household Words 1850–9; edited
the first series of The essays of Elia for Hotten’s Worldwide
library 1867; edited Leigh Hunt’s Tale for the chimney corner
1869; on staff of the Daily News 1853–77; sub-editor of The
Leader 1855–8; editor of The Atlas 1859–60; literary editor of
London review 1874–6; worked for the firm of Cassell, Petter,
and Galpin, publishers; granted cross of the Italian order of
S.S. Maurice and Lazarus 1867; author of Poems from the Greek
mythology 1867; The Doré gallery 1870; Cassell’s History of the
war between France and Germany, 2 vols. 1871–2, 3 ed. 1887–9;
Cassell’s History of the United States, 3 vols. 1874–7; Our
British portrait painters, from sir P. Lely to J. Sant 1874;
Cassell’s Illustrated history of the Russo-Turkish war, 2
vols. 1877–9, 3 ed. 1889–91; Cassell’s Illustrated universal
history, 4 vols. 1882–5, 2 ed. 1892; The life and times of queen
Victoria by R. Wilson 1887, the first eleven chapters were by
E. Ollier. _d._ 154 Oakley st. King’s road, Chelsea 19 April
1886. _Biograph ii_ 533–5 (1879); _Academy xxix_ 309–10 (1886);
_Athenæum i_ 583 (1886).

OLLIFFE, SIR JOSEPH FRANCIS (son of Joseph Olliffe of Cork,
merchant). _b._ Cork 1808; educ. univ. of Paris, M.A. 1829,
M.D. 1840; began practice in Paris 1840; fellow of Anatomical
society of Paris; president of Paris Medical society; a knight
of the Legion of honour 1846, officer 1855; physician to British
embassy, Paris from March 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace
13 June 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; took part with count de Morny in
unremunerative building operations at Deauville, near Trouville.
_d._ 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 14 March 1869. _British
medical Journal 20 March 1869 p._ 274; _Reg. and mag. of biog.
April 1869 p._ 296.

OLLIVANT, ALFRED (son of Wm. Ollivant of Ashton-under-Lyne,
cotton spinner). _b._ Mosley st. Manchester 16 Aug. 1798; educ.
St. Paul’s school 1809–17, captain of the school; Campden
exhibitioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 1817; Perry exhibitioner 1819,
Craven scholar 1820, sixth wrangler and senior chancellor’s
medallist 1821; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1836;
fellow of Trin. coll. 1821; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1822;
vice-principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827–43;
prebendary of St. David’s 28 July 1829; R. of Llangeler,
Carmarthenshire 1831, vicar 1832–43; prebendary of Brecon 10
Nov. 1831; R. of Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire 1835–7; V. of
Kerry, Montgomeryshire 1836–43; regius professor of divinity at
Cambridge and R. of Somersham, Hunts. March 1843 to Nov. 1849;
bishop of Llandaff 20 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated at Lambeth
2 Dec; restored the cathedral and built, restored, or enlarged
about 170 churches; established the Church extension society;
member of the Old Testament revision company, which he had
suggested 1870; presented with his portrait in the town hall at
Cardiff 30 Nov. 1882; author of An analysis of the Hebrew text
of the history of Joseph 1828, 3 ed. 1836; Some account of the
condition of the fabric of Llandaff cathedral 1857, 2 ed. 1860;
and of upwards of 30 charges, letters, and sermons 1827–81. _d._
Bishop’s court, Llandaff 16 Dec. 1882. _bur._ in churchyard
of Llandaff cathedral 21 Dec., tomb with effigy in marble by
Armitstead, on north side of the altar steps. _J. Morgan’s Four
biographical sketches_ (1892) 1–60; _Church portrait journal i_
41 (1880) _portrait_; _Red Dragon iii_ 193 (1883) _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xv_ 376 (1849) _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 680 (1882) _portrait_.

OLMAR, stage name of James Chadwick. Performer on a
trapèze-swing; a walker head downwards with his feet in rings;
performed at the Alhambra palace, London in Nov. 1862; weighed
130 lbs.; his biceps, fore-arm, wrists, pectoral muscles and
muscles of his back were of great strength. _d._ 1 King st.
Chester road, Manchester 24 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Ardwick cemetery
27 Feb. _F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of natural history_, _3rd
series_, _2 ed. ii_ 92–6 (1868).

O’LOGHLEN, SIR COLMAN MICHAEL, 2 baronet (eld. son of sir
Michael O’Loghlen, 1 baronet 1789–1842). _b._ Dublin 20 Sept.
1819; B.A. univ. of Dublin 1840; admitted King’s inns 1838;
called to Irish bar 1840, went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov.
1852; chairman of Carlow quarter sessions 1856–9; chairman of
Mayo quarter sessions 1859–61; M.P. Clare 1863 to death; third
sergeant-at-law 1865, second sergeant 1866; judge advocate
general 16 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1870; P.C. 12 Dec. 1868; introduced
and carried the bill enabling Roman Catholics to hold the lord
chancellorship of Ireland. _d._ suddenly on board the mail-boat
while crossing from Holyhead to Kingstown 22 July 1877. _J. R.
O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 301–6.

OLPHERT, WYBRANTS (son of rev. John Olphert, _d._ 1851). _b._
1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; always resided on
his estates in Ireland, where he had a large number of small
tenants; in 1884 after formation of the Land league had to
evict 32 of his tenants; refusing to make large reductions in
his rents 1887 Father M’Fadden organised the ‘Plan of campaign’
and the evictions were resisted by cutting and barricading the
roads, loopholding the houses, and using pitchforks, stones and
boiling water against the bailiffs, the tenants eventually paid
up and were reinstated 1892. _found dead_ in his arm chair,
Ballyconnell house, co. Donegal 21 Sept. 1892.

O’MAHONY, JOHN FRANCIS. _b._ Kilbeheney, co. Limerick 1816;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; took part in Smith O’Brien’s attempted
insurrection 1848, fled to France, lived in Paris 1849–54, and
in New York 1854 to death; one of the founders of the Emmet
movement association about 1854; for a short time in a lunatic
asylum; col. of 69th regt. in U.S. of America; took a prominent
part in the Fenian movement from 1858; was head centre of
the Fenian brotherhood several years; published Foras feasa
ar Eirinn, The history of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D.,
translated from the original Gaelic and copiously annotated, New
York 1857. _d._ New York 7 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet.
near Dublin in Feb. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 579–80
(1888).

O’MALLEY, PETER FREDERIC (son of Charles O’Malley of the Lodge,
co. Mayo). _b._ 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, M.A. 1828;
barrister L.I. 2 May 1834; went Oxford circuit; migrated to
Middle Temple 1839, bencher 1850 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850;
leader of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Norwich April 1859
to death; contested Finsbury as a Conservative 16 Nov. 1868;
author of Religious liberty and the Indian proclamation 1859;
The articles, liturgy, and subscription 1865; To the electors
of the borough of Finsbury, two addresses 1868. _d._ 7 Lowndes
st. Belgrave sq. London 10 Dec. 1874. _Irish Law Times viii_ 649
(1874); _Law Times lviii_ 124 (1874).

O’MALLEY, SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (son of Owen O’Malley of
Borrishowle, co. Mayo). _b._ 26 Dec. 1779; created baronet 2
July 1804. _d._ Kilboyne house, Castlebar, Mayo 18 Aug. 1864.
_G.M. xvii_ 529 (1864).

O’MALLEY, THADEUS JOSEPH. _b._ Garryowen, near Limerick 1796;
a Roman Catholic minister, Philadelphia, U.S. of America,
but was suspended by bishop England 1825; assistant priest
to the cathedral in Marlborough st. Dublin under archbishop
Daniel Murray 1827; advocated a poor law for Ireland and a
system of national education; rector of R.C. university of
Malta, but dismissed by the government; started a newspaper in
Dublin entitled The social economist and another entitled The
Federalist, No. 1 Sept. 24, 1870, which ran to No. 31 April 22,
1871; tried to unite the Old Ireland and Young Ireland parties;
advocated home rule from 1870; author of A sketch of the state
of popular education in Holland, Prussia, Belgium and France,
2 ed. 1840; Home rule on the basis of federalism 1873. _d._ 1
Henrietta st. Dublin 2 Jany. 1877. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. _The
works of the right rev. J. England, bishop of Charleston v_
187–202 (1849).

O’MEARA, KATHLEEN (dau. of Dennis O’Meara of Tipperary). _b._
Dublin 1839; resided in Paris most of her life, where she was
correspondent of The Tablet newspaper many years; author of
the following works under pseudonym of Grace Ramsay, A woman’s
trials, 3 vols. 1867; Iza’s story, 3 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1877; The
bells of the sanctuary, Agnes 1871; The bells of the sanctuary,
A daughter of St. Dominick 1873; A salon in the last days of the
Empire 1873; Thomas Grant, first bishop of Southwark 1874, 2 ed.
1886; The battle of Connemara 1878, 2 ed. 1878; Are you my wife,
3 vols. 1878; translated Henri Perreyve and his counsels to the
sick 1881; author under own name of The Bells of the sanctuary,
Mary Benedicta, etc. 1879; The blind apostle 1890; Frederic
Ozanam, his life and works 1876, 2 ed. 1878; Madame Mohl, her
salon and her friends 1885, 2 ed. 1886; Narka, 2 vols. 1888; The
old house in Picardy 1887; One of God’s heroines, Mother Mary
Teresa Kelly 1878; Queen by right divine and other tales 1885;
The ven. Jean Baptiste Viauney 1891. _d._ at residence of Father
Faber, Paris 10 Nov. 1888. _Irish Monthly Oct. 1889 pp._ 527–36;
_Tablet 17 Nov. 1888 p._ 789.

OMMANNEY, HENRY MANATON. _b._ 1775; entered navy June 1787;
captain 22 Jany. 1806; retired R.A. 28 June 1838, placed on the
active list 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. _d._ 11
West Emma place, Stonehouse 22 March 1857.

OMMANNEY, SIR JOHN ACWORTH (eld. son of rear admiral Cornthwaite
Ommanney, _d._ 1801). _b._ 1773; entered navy 1786; captain 16
Oct. 1800; flag captain to sir Erasmus Gower on the Newfoundland
station 1804–6; commanded the Albion 1825–30; served at battle
of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827, for which created C.B. 1828, and
knight of the orders of St. Louis, St. Vladimir and the
Redeemer of Greece; R.A. 22 July 1830; knighted at St. James’s
palace 20 May 1835; commanded the Lisbon station 1837–40, and
the Mediterranean station 1840–1; K.C.B. 20 July 1838; V.A. 23
Nov. 1841, admiral 4 May 1849; commander-in-chief at Devonport
17 April 1851 to 1 May 1854. _d._ Warblington house, Havant 8
July 1855.

O’NEILL, JOHN BRUCE RICHARD O’NEILL, 3 Viscount (younger son of
1 viscount O’Neill 1740–98). _b._ Shane’s castle, co. Antrim
30 Dec. 1780; ensign Coldstream guards 10 Oct. 1799; lieut.
col. Chasseurs Britanniques 21 April 1808 to 29 March 1810;
lieut. col. 19 dragoons 29 March 1810 to 11 July 1816; captain
Coldstream guards 11 July 1816 to 27 May 1825; M.G. 27 May
1825; general 20 June 1854; M.P. co. Antrim 1802–41; succeeded
his brother as 3 viscount 25 March 1841; constable of Dublin
castle May 1811 to death; vice-admiral of the coast of Ulster; a
representative peer of Ireland Feb. 1842 to death. _d._ Shane’s
Castle 12 Feb. 1855.