Chapter LVIII: Part 58

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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