Chapter LVII: Part 57

O’NEILL, WILLIAM O’NEILL, 1 Baron (eld. son of rev. Edward
Chichester, R. of Kilmore, Armagh, _d._ June 1840). _b._
Culdaff house, co. Donegal 3 March 1813; educ. Foyle college,
Londonderry, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1836; C. of
Kilmore 1837; prebendary of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1848–59; succeeded
to the O’Neill estates 1855, when he took name of O’Neill in
lieu of that of Chichester; acted frequently as organist in the
Dublin cathedrals; composer of church music, glees, and songs;
composed the poetry and music of an ode when prince Arthur
visited Shane’s Castle 1869; created baron O’Neill of Shane’s
Castle in the county of Antrim 18 April 1868; a great supporter
of the disestablished church; a member of the Victoria institute
1875; author of Friendly suggestions on Christian consistency,
Exeter 1847; The christian sabbath 1859; Unchanging love, or
the final perseverance of all believers in Christ Jesus 1860;
Absolution and the prayer book 1871; Essays and addresses on the
truths of the christian religion 1886; composer of Let others
quaff the racy wine, a glee 1881. _d._ Shane’s Castle 17 April
1883. The O’Neill scholarship founded in the divinity school,
Trin. coll. Dublin in his memory. _Sermon by the rev. lord
O’Neill_ (1885), _memoir pp. ix–xlviii portrait_.

O’NEILL, HENRY. _b._ Dundalk 1800; Irish archæologist; author
of A guide to pictorial art 1846; The most interesting of
the ancient crosses of ancient Ireland, drawn to scale and
lithographed by H. O’Neill 1857; The fine arts and civilization
of ancient Ireland, illustrated with chromo and other
lithographs 1863; Ireland for the Irish 1868. _d._ 109 Lower
Gardiner st. Dublin 21 Dec. 1880.

O’NEILL, HENRY ARTHUR. Ensign 41 foot 22 Nov. 1821; captain 12
foot 8 March 1827, major 28 Aug. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842, when
placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Nov. 1870. _d._ St. Ann’s Donnybrook,
co. Dublin 23 Nov. 1874.

O’NEIL, HENRY NELSON. _b._ St. Petersburg 7 Jany. 1817; came
to England 1823; studied at the R.A. from 1836; historical
painter; exhibited 94 pictures at R.A., 34 at B.I., and 14 at
Suffolk st. 1838–79; A.R.A. 1860; with other persons supplied
illustrations to L’Allegro and Il penseroso 1848; author of
Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy 1866; Two
thousand years hence 1868; Modern art in England and France
1869; Satirical dialogues 1870; The age of stucco, a satire in
three cantos 1871. _d._ 7 Victoria road, Kensington, London 13
March 1880. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Sandby’s History of
royal academy ii_ 343 (1862); _Walford’s Representative men_
(1868) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxvi_ 180, 181 (1860) _portrait_,
_lxxv_ 308 (1880) _portrait_.

O’NEILL OR O’NIELL, JOHN (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Waterford
8 Jany 1777; a shoemaker at Garrick-on-Suir 1800, afterwards
in London from 1812; a strong advocate of temperance; author
of The clothier’s looking-glass, a poem 1799; Irish melodies;
The sorrows of memory, a poem; Alva, a drama 1821; The Drunkard
1840, a poem, new edition with George Cruikshank’s etchings
of the effects of the Bottle 1842; The triumph of temperance,
or the destruction of the British upas tree 1852, a poem;
Handerahan the Irish fairy-man and legends of Carrick 1854; Hugh
O’Neill the prince of Ulster, a poem 1859; Mary of Avonmore,
or the foundling of the beach, a novel. _d._ White horse yard,
Drury lane, London 3 Feb. 1858. _J. O’Neill’s Blessings of
Temperance_ (1851), _memoir pp. i–vi_, _portrait_; _W. E.
Winks’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers_ (1883) 316–9; _D. J.
O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_, _part iii_, _p._ 195 (1893); _S.
Couling’s History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 338–9.

O’NEILL, JOHN. _b._ about 1837; employed in the war office;
retired on a pension of £350 in 1879; accountant general in
Cyprus, where he had to reduce eleven different currencies to
a common denomination; made a special study of Japanese, and
compiled a grammar which was adopted by the Mikado; contributed
to philological and literary journals in London and Paris; an
authority on the Provençal language and literature; author of A
first Japanese book for English students 1874; The night of the
Gods, an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology 1893. _d._
Selling, near Faversham 12 Jany. 1895.

O’NEILL, JOHN ROBERT (only son of Robert O’Neill of Talylyn,
co. Brecon, who was brother of lady Becher). _b._ Ireland 1823;
matric. from Magdalen hall, Oxf. 5 Dec. 1844; appeared on the
stage at Exeter; a reader and lecturer; author of the plays, Don
Roderick; The Loose fish; Mrs. Johnson; Ali Baba, or a night
with the 40 thieves, extravaganza performed by the marionettes
at the St. James’ theatre, London 27 Dec. 1852; An optical
delusion, a farce, St. James’ theatre; under the name of Hugo
Vamp, esq. he wrote the dramas Aladdin; The Arcadian brothers;
Poll Practice; Roscius in spirits; The manager at home; composer
(as Hugo Vamp) of Alonzo the brave 1856; Lord Ronald the bold,
duke of Putney 1861; Mazeppa, the cream of Tartars 1869; King
Leah, a comic scena 1872; Othello, a comic scena 1872. _d._
39 Paulton square, Chelsea 12 June 1860. _W. Donaldson’s
Recollections of an actor_ (1865) 309–21; _The Era 24 June 1860
p._ 11.

ONSLOW, GEORGES (son of Edward Onslow). _b._ Clermont-Ferrand,
Auvergne 27 July 1784; pupil of Hullmandel, Dussek, and J. B.
Cramer in England; studied music in Vienna two years; pupil of
Reicha in Paris 1808; composed 3 operas, produced at the Théatre
Feydeau, Paris, L’Alcalde de la Vega 10 Aug. 1824, Le Colporteur
22 Nov. 1827, and Le Duc de Guise 8 Sept. 1837; one of the first
honorary members of the Philharmonic society, London 1832; nine
of his symphonies were played at the Conservatoire concerts
in Paris 1831, &c.; member of the French Institute Nov. 1842;
published at Paris, Vienna and Leipsic 34 quintets, 36 quartets
and 6 trios for piano, violin, and violincello 1824–50; printed
in London An air for the pianoforte 1828. _d._ Clermont-Ferrand
3 Oct. 1853. _F. Halevy’s Souvenirs et portraits_, _Paris_
(1861) 161–86; _Georges Onslow, Esquisse par, Auguste Gathy_.

ONSLOW, GUILDFORD JAMES HILLIER MAINWARING-ELLERKER (2 son of
succeeding). _b._ Bulstrode st. London 29 March 1814; educ.
Eton; lieut. Scots fusilier guards; M.P. Guildford 1858–74;
assumed by R.L. additional names of Mainwaring-Ellerker 19 Aug.
1861; a friend of sir Roger Tichborne from 1847; a firm believer
in the Tichborne claimant 1867, to whom he gave continuous
support, assisted him with money and was a holder of Tichborne
bonds, a believer in Tichborne to his death; the claimant in
June 1895 admitted that he was Arthur Orton and not sir Roger
Tichborne; author of Tichborne, Reasons why he should have
the benefit of the doubt 1874; Two hundred facts proving the
claimant to be Roger Tichborne, in De Morgan’s Popular series,
No. 2, 1876. _d._ The Grove, Ropley, Alresford 20 Aug. 1882.
_bur._ Old Alresford churchyard 24 Aug.

ONSLOW, THOMAS CRANLEY (2 son of 2 earl of Onslow 1754–1827).
_b._ 7 Oct. 1778; educ. Harrow; ensign 3 foot guards 29 April
1795, captain 26 Sept. 1805, sold out 1812; colonel 2 Surrey
militia to 1852; M.P. Guildford 1806–18. _d._ Upton house,
Alresford 7 July 1861.

ONSLOW, WILLIAM. Cornet 11 dragoons 12 Dec. 1798, lieut. 26 Feb.
1801; captain 4 dragoons 29 Jany. 1805, major 23 Nov. 1820;
major 88 foot 15 Feb. 1827, placed on h.p. 2 July 1829; major 55
foot 7 Feb. 1840, sold out same day; K.H. 1832.

NOTE.--He is in Burke’s and Dod’s Peerages 1887, but probably died some years before this date.

ONWHYN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1787; bookseller 3 Catherine st. Strand,
London; published Onwhyn’s Guide to the Highlands of Scotland
1839; Onwhyn’s Welsh tourist 1840, 2 ed. 1853; Onwhyn’s Pocket
guide to the Lakes 1841; and The Owl, a Wednesday journal of
politics and society. First issue numbered 1001 27 April 1864,
last issue 1095 22 July 1868, a satirical journal treating
chiefly on political subjects. _d._ New Hillingdon, Cowley,
Uxbridge, Middlesex 27 Nov. 1870.

ONWHYN, THOMAS (youngest son of the preceding). _b._ London
1811; designer and engraver; in Additional illustrations to the
Pickwick Papers by Samuel Weller, issued in 8 monthly parts,
Lond. E. Grattan 1837, he executed 21 of the 32 plates, some
of which bear his initials; and in Illustrations to Nicholas
Nickleby by Peter Palette, esq., issued in 9 parts, Lond. E.
Grattan 1839, he executed all the 40 plates, this work was
reprinted in 1848, another set of illustrations to the same
work by Onwhyn appeared in 1893; he illustrated The memoirs of
David Dreamy 1839; Charles Selby’s Maxims and specimens of
William Muggins 1841; M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris
1844; Etiquette illustrated by an X M.P. 1849; he illustrated
the following works by Henry Cockton, Valentine Vox, the
Ventriloquist 1840; George St. George Julian, the Prince 1842;
Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist 1844; The Love Match 1845;
The Steward 1850; The Sisters 1851; Lady Felicia 1851; Percy
Effingham 1853; under the name of Peter Palette he wrote Mr.
and Mrs. Brown’s Visit to the Exhibition 1851; Peter Palette’s
Tales and Pictures, 1856, second series 1856; with J. Onwhyn he
produced Costumes of the times of George iii, designed for her
majesty’s state ball 1845; his 12 pictures entitled Cupid and
crinoline, dated 20 Oct. 1858, were reprinted in The Picture
Magazine June 1893, pp. 326–7. _d._ 9 May’s buildings, Strand,
St. Martin in the Fields, London 21 Jany. 1886, his son Thomas
Onwhyn present at his death. _Jas. Cook’s Bibliography of C.
Dickens_ (1879) 12, 17, 83, 85.

OPIE, AMELIA (only child of James Alderson of Norwich,
physician, _d._ Oct. 1825). _b._ Calvert st. Norwich 12 Nov.
1769; took charge of her father’s house on her mother’s death
31 Dec. 1784; wrote a tragedy entitled Adelaide about 1787;
author of The dangers of coquetry 2 vols. 1790, anon.; _m._ at
Marylebone church 8 May 1798 John Opie, the Cornish painter, who
_d._ April 1807, aged 46; received into the Society of Friends
11 Aug. 1825; author of The father and daughter 1801, 4 ed.
1804; Poems 1802, 6 ed. 1811; Adelaide Mowbray or the mother
and daughter, 3 vols. 1804, new ed. 1844; Simple Tales 1806,
4 ed. 1815; The warrior’s return and other poems 1808; Temper
or domestic scenes, 3 vols. 1812; Tales of real life, 3 vols.
1813, 3 ed. 1816; Valentine’s Eve, 3 vols. 1816; New tales, 4
vols. 1818; Tales of the heart, 4 vols. 1820; Madeline, 2 vols.
1822; Illustrations of lying in all its branches, 2 vols. 1825;
Detraction displayed 1828; Lays for the dead 1834, 2 ed. 1840;
a collected edition of her Miscellaneous tales was published
in 12 vols. 1845–7. _d._ Castle Meadow, Norwich 2 Dec. 1853.
_bur._ in the Friends’ burying-ground, Gildencroft, Norwich 9
Dec. _C. L. Brightwell’s Memorials of life of A. Opie_ (1854)
_portrait_; _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_, _2 series_ (1893)
175–90 _portrait_; _Biographical catalogue of lives of friends_
(1888) 473–80; _A book of memories by S. C. Hall_ (1877) 167–80;
_J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii_ 15–30 (1858); _J.
Kavanagh’s English women of letters ii_ 237–84 (1863); _H.
Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (1876) 329–36; _A book of
sibyls by Miss Thackeray_ (_Mrs. R. Ritchie_ 1883) _pp._ 149–96;
_Cornhill magazine Oct. 1883 pp._ 357–82.

ORANGE, JAMES. _b._ 1799; minister of the Gospel, formerly
resident at Castle terrace, Nottingham; edited Narrative of the
late George Vason, missionary in the ship Duff, with An essay
on the South Seas, Derby 1840; author of The ecclesiastical and
civil history of the town and people of Nottingham, 2 vols.
1840; Synoptica Hebræa, Anglo-Hebrew Bible expositor, a manual
of self instruction, London 1858; a teacher of Hebrew at 471
Mile end road, London 1866 to death. _d._ 471 Mile end road,
London 6 Jany. 1878. _Christian World 25 Jany. 1878 p._ 72.

ORANMORE, DOMINICK BROWNE, 1 Baron (2 son of Dominick Geoffrey
Browne, governor of Mayo 1755–1826). _b._ Sackville st. Dublin
28 May 1787; educ. Eton, Edinburgh, and St. John’s coll. Camb.;
M.P. Mayo 1814–36; P.C. Ireland 1834; lord lieutenant of Mayo
1834–42; cr. baron Oranmore and Browne of Carra Browne castle,
Oranmore, co. Galway and of Castle Mac Garrett, co. Mayo 4 May
1836. _d._ Brighton 30 Jany. 1860. _G.M. viii_ 296 (1860).

ORCZY, BODOG, Baron. _b._ Hungary 1835; composer of II
rinnegato, opera in 3 acts, Hungarian libretto by Farkas Deak,
Italian adaptation by S. C. Marchesi, English adaptation by
Frederick Corder, London 1881. _d._ 23 Wimpole st. London 20
Jany. 1892.

ORD, SIR HARRY ST. GEORGE (eld. son of Harry Gough Ord, captain
R.A.). _b._ North Cray, Kent 17 June 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 14
Dec. 1837; adjutant of the R.E. at Chatham 1 Jany. 1852 to July
1854; brigade major of the R.E. in the Baltic July 1854; lieut.
col. R.E. 28 Nov. 1859, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 16 April
1869; lieutenant governor of Dominica 2 Sept. 1857; governor of
the Bermudas 16 Feb. 1861 to Nov. 1866; governor of the Straits
Settlements 5 Feb. 1867 to Nov. 1873; governor of Western
Australia 12 Nov. 1877, retired on a pension 6 April 1880; C.B.
9 Oct. 1865; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1867; K.C.M.G. 30 May
1877, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. _d._ Homburg 20 Aug. 1885. _bur._
in churchyard of Fornham, St. Martin, near Bury St. Edmunds,
portrait in chamber of legislative council, Bermuda.

ORD, JOHN WALKER (son of Richard Ord of Guisborough, Yorkshire,
tanner). _b._ Guisborough 5 March 1811; educ. univ. of Edinb.;
apprenticed to Robert Knox the anatomist; founded in London
1834 the Metropolitan literary journal, which was merged in the
Britannia; author of England, a historical poem, 2 vols. 1834–5;
Remarks on the sympathetic condition existing between the body
and the mind, especially during disease 1836; The Bard and
minor poems 1841; Rural sketches and poems chiefly relating to
Cleveland 1845; The history and antiquities of Cleveland 1846;
edited Roseberry Topping, a poem by Thomas Pierson, Stockton
1847. _d._ Guisborough 29 Aug. 1853. _J. W. Ord’s History and
antiquities of Cleveland_ (1846) _portrait_.

ORD, WILLIAM REDMAN. _b._ about 1792; second lieut. R.E. 25
April 1809, colonel 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 20 April 1861
to death; general 1 Jany. 1868. _d._ Stoke Damarel, Devonport 11
April 1872.

ORDISH, ROWLAND MASON (son of John Ordish, land agent and
surveyor). _b._ Melbourne, near Derby 11 April 1824; employed
by R. E. Brounger, civil engineer, London 1847, afterwards
by Charles Fox; made the working drawings for the iron work
of the Great Exhibition building 1851, and was engaged on
the re-erection of the building at Sydenham 1852–4; chief
draughtsman in the works’ department of the admiralty at
Somerset house Jany. 1856 to March 1858; engineer at 18 Great
George st. Westminster 1858; partner with W. H. Le Feuvre;
took out a patent April 1858 for an improvement in suspension
bridges, which is known as Ordish’s straight chain suspension
system; designed the Franz-Joseph bridge over the Moldau at
Prague 1868, and the Albert bridge over the Thames at Chelsea,
opened Sept. 1873, both constructed on this principle; designed
the roof of the Dutch-Rhenish railway station at Amsterdam
1863, roof of the Dublin winter palace 1865, winter garden for
Leeds infirmary 1868, and the railway station at Cape Town;
designed with J. W. Grover the roof of the Albert Hall at South
Kensington 1870; member of the Society of Engineers 1857,
president 1860. _d._ Stratford place, Camden Town, London 12
Sept. 1886. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

O’REARDON, JOHN. _b._ 1776; educ. Maynooth 1797; a physician
1802; studied in Paris 1803; a prisoner in France to 1814;
physician to fever hospital, Cork st. Dublin 1814–48, wrote
the annual reports for 1824, 1827, 1830 and 1833; physician
to Daniell O’Connell; author of De ictero 1802; A memoir of
Richard Kirwan, the chemist. _d._ Mount Prospect, Killarney 14
March 1866. _Medical Times 31 March 1866 p._ 353.

O’REGAN, ANTHONY. _b._ Kiltullagh, Ireland 1809; a priest in
Tuam cathedral; professor and then president of St. Jarlath’s
coll. Tuam; went to U.S. of America; vicar-general of diocese of
St. Louis; president of the college of Carondelet and professor
of theology and sacred scriptures; bishop of Chicago 1854,
resigned 1858 and was transferred to the titular see of Dora;
resided in Europe 1858 to death. _d._ Michael’s grove, Brompton,
London 13 Nov. 1866. _bur._ Cloonfad, co. Galway, 22 Nov. _The
Tablet 17 Nov. 1866 p._ 721, _1 Dec. p._ 764.

O’REILLY, BERNARD. _b._ co. Longford 1803; embarked for U.S. of
America 17 Jany. 1825; educ. Ecclesiastical seminary, Montreal
1825, and at St. Mary’s coll. Baltimore; ordained in New York
13 Oct. 1831; a priest at St. James’ ch. Brooklyn from 1831;
devoted himself to the sick during the cholera of 1832; pastor
of St. Patrick’s ch. Rochester Dec. 1832; vicar-general of the
new see of Buffalo Oct, 1847; consecrated bishop of Hartford
in St. Patrick’s ch. 1850; introduced Sisters of mercy to the
states of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and protected them
against a mob in 1855; went to Europe 5 Dec. 1855; embarked at
Liverpool on board the steamer Pacific on his return to his
diocese 23 Jany. 1856, but the ship was never again heard of,
requiem masses said for him in June 1856. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives
of bishops of catholic church in United States ii_ 391–407
(1872).

O’REILLY, BERNARD (son of a farmer). _b._ Ballybeg, co. Meath
10 Jany. or June 1824; educ. at St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw,
Durham 10 June 1836 to 17 May 1847; received tonsure and 4
minor orders 15 Feb. 1845, sub-deacon 20 Sept. 1845, deacon 19
Dec. 1846, priest 9 May 1847; assistant priest of mission at
St. Patrick’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 18 May 1847 to 8 Dec.
1852; removed to new mission of St. Vincent de Paul 8 Dec. 1852,
erected a new church 1857; canon of chapter of Liverpool 24 Dec.
1862 and vicar-general; bishop of Liverpool 28 Feb. 1873 to
death; consecrated at St. Vincent’s, Liverpool 19 March 1873.
_d._ St. Edward’s coll. Everton 9 April 1894. _bur._ Upholland
cemet. Wigan 13 April. _Brady’s Episcopal succession iii_ 423
(1877).

O’REILLY, DOWELL (4 son of Matthew O’Reilly of Knock Abbey
castle, co. Louth, _d._ Jany. 1817). _b._ May 1795; called to
Irish bar; barrister L.I. 17 April 1832; attorney general of
Jamaica 1831–55; nominated president of legislative council
there June 1855, but he died before being inaugurated. _d._ St.
Andrews, Kingston, Jamaica 13 Sept. 1855. _bur._ in R.C. cemet.
Kingston 14 Sept. _G.M. xliv_ 651 (1855).

O’REILLY, EDMUND JOSEPH. _b._ London 30 April 1811; studied
at Maynooth and the Irish college at Rome 1830, doctor in
sacred theology 1835; professor of theology at Maynooth college
1838–50; member of the Society of Jesus 1852; teacher of
theology at the Jesuits’ college of St. Beuno, near St. Asaph
1852–8; teacher of divinity in the catholic univ. of Ireland
1858–9; superior of the Jesuits’ house of retreat at Milltown
Park, Dublin 1859 to death; Irish provincial of Society of Jesus
1863–70. _d._ Milltown Park 10 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Glasnevin
cemet. Dublin. _E. J. O’Reilly’s The relations of the church to
society_ (1892) _memoir pp. i–viii_; _Irish Monthly vi_ 695–700
(1878).

O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE (2 son of Wm. David O’Reilly, master of
the national school attached to the Netterville institution
at Dowth Castle, near Drogheda 35 years, _d._ 17 Feb. 1871).
_b._ Dowth Castle 28 June 1844; a compositor on the Guardian
newspaper at Preston 1859, reporter on the paper to March 1863;
a trooper in the 10 hussars May 1863, arrested at Island Bridge
barracks, Dublin 13 Feb. 1866, tried by court martial at the
royal barracks, Dublin 27 June 1866 for having in Dublin in
January 1866 come to the knowledge of an intended mutiny in her
majesty’s forces in Ireland and not giving information to his
commanding officer, ordered to be shot 9 July, but eventually
sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, sent to Western Australia
Oct. 1867, escaped on an American whaler April 1869; editor and
part proprietor of the Pilot newspaper in Boston 1870; took
part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the
rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western
Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national
celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas, Boston
1873; Songs, legends, and ballads, Boston 1878; The statues
in the block and other poems 1881; Ethics of boxing and manly
sports 1888; In Bohemia, poems 1886; Moondyne, a story 1889;
edited The poetry and songs of Ireland 1889; author with Robert
Grant, F. J. Stimson, and J. T. Wheelwright of The king’s man,
a tale of tomorrow 1884, a satirical novel. _d._ Winthrop st.
Boston 10 Aug. 1890. _bur._ Holyhood cemetery, Brookline,
Massachusetts 12 Aug. _J. J. Roche’s Life of J. B. O’Reilly_
(1891) _portrait_; _Cosmopolitan ix_ 768 (1890) _portrait_;
_Irish Monthly xiii_ 19 (1885).

O’REILLY, MONTAGU FREDERICK. _b._ 1822; entered R.N. Feb. 1835,
lieut. 12 Dec. 1845, capt. 23 June 1862, retired 1 April 1870,
R.A. 9 March 1878; served in the Chinese war 1841; first lieut.
of Retribution in Black sea during Russian war, wounded at
Odessa 22 April 1854, present at attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct.
1854, Crimean medal, two Turkish medals and the medal of the
Medjidié fifth class; author of Twelve views in the Black sea
and the Bosphorus, with letterpress 1856, the original sketches
are at Windsor Castle. _d._ Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 20 May
1888.

O’REILLY, MYLES WILLIAM PATRICK (only son of Wm. O’Reilly of
Knock abbey, co. Louth 1792–1844). _b._ Dublin 13 March 1825;
educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham; B.A. London 1845,
LL.D. Rome 1847; sheriff of co. Louth 1848; captain Louth rifles
militia; major in service of Pius IX, commanded the Irish
brigade, defended Spoleto against the Piedmontese troops Sept.
1860, but was obliged to surrender; M.P. co. Longford March 1862
to April 1879; assistant comr. of intermediate education in
Ireland April 1879 to death; author of Progress of catholicity
in Ireland in the nineteenth century 1865; Memorials of those
who suffered for the Catholic faith in Ireland 1868, reprinted
under the title of Lives of the Irish martyrs and confessors,
New York 1878. _d._ Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Philipstown near
Knock Abbey.

ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 earl of Oxford
1752–1822). _b._ Whitehall, London 14 June 1783; styled lord
Walpole 1809–22; M.P. for King’s Lynn 1809–22; a lord of the
admiralty 12 June 1811; secretary of embassy at St. Petersburgh
5 July 1812 to 5 April 1825 when pensioned, minister ad interim
1814–5; a comr. for the affairs of India 17 June 1818 to 17
Feb. 1822; succeeded to the peerage 15 June 1822; colonel West
Norfolk militia 26 June 1822; high steward of Great Yarmouth
1833–6. _d._ Wolterton park, Aylsham, Norfolk 29 Dec. 1858.

ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 4 Earl of (eld. child of preceding).
_b._ Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 18 April 1813; styled lord
Walpole 1822–58; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. for East
Norfolk 1835–7; succeeded to the peerage 29 Dec. 1858. _d._ 6
Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1894.

O’RIORDAN, DANIELL O’CONNELL. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 28
Feb. 1880. _d._ 13 Aug. 1890.

ORKNEY, GEORGE WILLIAM HAMILTON FITZMAURICE, 6 Earl of (1 son of
5 earl of Orkney 1803–77). _b._ 6 May 1827; known as viscount
Kirkwall 1831–77; ensign 92 foot 8 Aug. 1845; capt. 71 foot 23
Dec. 1853; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 25 Jany. 1856, sold
out 25 Sept. 1857; served at siege of Sebastopol and capture
of Kertch, medal and clasp and Turkish medal; aide-de-camp to
sir Henry Wood in Ionian islands 1851–4; C.M.G. 1866, K.C.M.G.
28 May 1875; succeeded 16 May 1877; a representative peer for
Scotland 19 Feb. 1885 to death; author of Four years in the
Ionian islands 1864. _d._ 26 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London
21 Oct. 1889.

ORLEANS, HELENE LOUISE ELISABETH, Duchess of (youngest dau.
of Frederic Louis, grand duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, _d._
1816). _b._ Ludwigslust castle 24 Jany. 1814; _m._ at palace of
Fontainebleau, France 30 May 1837 Ferdinand, duke of Orleans,
prince royal of France, eld. son of Louis Philippe, king of the
French, the duke was killed by a fall from his carriage 13 July
1842; she escaped to Belgium at outbreak of French revolution
Feb. 1848; resided chiefly in Germany 1848–57, but was very
frequently in England; lived at Cambourne house, Mr. William
Paynter’s villa, Richmond, Surrey 1857–8. _d._ Cambourne house,
Richmond 18 May 1858. _H. Castille’s Portraits politiques_,
_La duchess d’Orleans_ (1856); _The duchess of Orleans_, _a
translation by Mrs. Austin_ (1859); _I.L.N. 23 July 1842 pp._
168–9, _29 May 1858 p._ 544 _portrait_; _G.M. June 1858 p._ 668.

ORLEBAR, JOHN (3 son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick house,
Bedfordshire 1775–1833). _b._ Hinwick house 19 Oct. 1810;
entered navy 16 March 1824; captain 1 Jany. 1861, retired 1
Oct. 1864; admiralty surveyor in British North America 30
years; retired admiral 15 July 1887. _d._ 91 Pevensey road, St.
Leonards-on-Sea 11 May 1891. _An account of families of Boase_
(1893) 112.

ORMATHWAITE, JOHN BENN-WALSH, 1 Baron (only son of sir John
Benn-Walsh, 1 baronet 1759–1825). _b._ Warfield park, Bracknell,
Berks. 9 Dec. 1798; educ. Eton; matric. from Christ Church,
Oxf. 3 Dec. 1816; sheriff of Berkshire 1823; succeeded as 2
bart. 7 June 1825; M.P. Sudbury 1830–4, and 1838–40; contested
Radnorshire 19 Jany. 1835; contested Poole 25 July 1837; M.P.
Radnorshire 1840–68; lord lieutenant of Radnorshire 11 Aug.
1842, resigned 1875; cr. baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite,
Cumberland 16 April 1868; author of Poor laws in Ireland
in their effect upon the capital, the prosperity, and the
improvement of that country 1830, 3 ed. 1831; Popular opinion on
parliamentary reform, 4 ed. 1831; Observation on the ministerial
plan of reform 1831; On the present balance of parties in the
state, 3 ed. 1832; Chapters of contemporary history 1836; The
practical result of the reform act 1860; Astronomy and geology
compared 1872; Lessons of the French revolution 1873. _d._
Warfield park 3 Feb. 1881.

ORME, COSMO. _b._ Scotland 1780; apprenticed to James Fairbairn,
bookseller, Edinburgh; clerk in house of Longman and Rees,
London; partner in house of Longman, Rees, Hurst, and Orme 1803,
retired June 1841; the first president of the Booksellers’
provident institution 15 Feb. 1837. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 12 Aug.
1859. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 19 Aug., will proved 26 Aug.
personalty sworn under £200,000. _Bookseller Aug. 1859 p._ 1169;
_G.M. vii_ 312 (1859).

ORME, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826;
pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in
weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds
lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham,
£50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds
lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again,
£100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10
May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near
Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31
rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for
the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public
house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. _d._ 103 Shoreditch,
London 9 June 1864. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 14 June. _H. D.
Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 253–70, 330–8 (1880) _portrait_; _F.
W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring_ (1888) 160–7;
_Fights for the championship_, _by the editor of Bell’s Life_
(1860) 244–55, 405; _Illust. sporting news iii_ 196, 203 (1864)
_portrait_.

NOTE.--He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was the only man who defeated Tom Sayers.

ORMEROD, EDWARD LATHAM (6 son of the succeeding). _b._ London
27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at
St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius
coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and
scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851;
demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7;
physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex
county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and
museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations
on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy
and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. _d._
14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. _St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital reports vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873); _J. F. Clarke’s
Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874)
503–6.

ORMEROD, GEORGE (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.)
_b._ High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school,
Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818;
purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his
death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author
of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester,
with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s
Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby,
3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays
illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6;
Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. _d._
Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. _G. Ormerod’s History of
Chester_, _2 ed. vol._ 1 (1875) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 575
(1873).

ORMEROD, GEORGE WAREING (2 son of the preceding). _b._
Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford,
Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S.
1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874;
wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of
the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject
in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to
the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the
Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club
1888. _d._ Woodway, Teignmouth 6 Jany. 1891. _Athenæum 10 Jany.
1891 p._ 56; _Academy xxxix_ 43 (1891).

ORMEROD, THOMAS JOHNSON (brother of the preceding). _b._ 27
July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew
lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A.
1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining
chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in
univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to
1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall
with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author
of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges,
lectures, and sermons. _d._ Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec.
1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200.
_I.L.N. lxv_ 571 (1874).

ORMEROD, WILLIAM PIERS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Welbeck
st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St.
Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator
of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec.
1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec
1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical
collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in
anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s
hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in
an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, _d._
Canterbury 10 June 1860. _bur._ St. Martin’s, Canterbury. _St.
Bartholomew’s hospital reports_, _vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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