NOTT, Henry. b. 14 July 1810; ensign 19 Madras N.I. 24 April 1827, major 7 May 1860; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 17 Sept. 1871, L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July 1880; general 22 Jany. 1889; commanded the force engaged in suppression of the rebellion in the Cuddepah district 1847; served in the Burmese war of 1852–3, and with general Whitlock’s force during the mutiny. d. The Elms, Great Stanmore, Middlesex 29 March 1895.
NOTTAGE, Charles George (only son of the succeeding). b. 1853; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1879; barrister I.T. 11 May 1881; captain Devon artillery militia 17 Oct. 1885 to death. d. 35 Collingham road, South Kensington, London 24 Dec. 1894.
Note.—His estate was sworn at the value of £37,824 Feb. 1895; he bequeathed to four trustees a sum of £13,000 to establish The Nottage Institute for instructing yachtsmen and other sailors in the science of navigation. He also left £2,000 for a Nottage cup for yachts, but this bequest was declared to be invalid, Times 24 May 1895 p. 13.
NOTTAGE, George Swan. b. London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W. Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856; opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor 1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; m. 1851 Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885. d. Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait, lxxxv 444 (1884) portrait; City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp. 2–3, 6, 15 April 1885 pp. 2–3.
NOTTIDGE, William. b. 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty sessions; a well known philanthropist. d. Wandsworth, Surrey 17 March 1853. bur. at Bermondsey 23 March. G.M. xxxix 550 (1853).
NOVELLO, Vincent (son of Giuseppe Novello, an Italian). b. 240 Oxford road, now Oxford st. London 6 Sept. 1781; a chorister at chapel of Sardinian embassy, Duke st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1793–7; organist of Portuguese embassy chapel in South st. Grosvenor sq. 1797–22; taught the piano at Campbell’s school in Brunswick sq. 27 years, and at Hibbert’s school, Clapton 25 years; founded firm of Novello & Co. music publishers 1811; his son Joseph Alfred became music publisher at 67 Frith st. Soho 1829; pianist and conductor for the Italian opera at the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1812; one of the 30 original members of Philharmonic soc. 1812, pianist to the society, afterwards conductor, his cantata Rosalba was produced by the society 1834; the Manchester prize for the best glee of a cheerful nature was awarded to his Old May Morning 1832; helped to found the Choral harmonists’ society, which first met 2 Jany. 1833, and the Classical harmonists’ society; organist at the musical festival in Westminster abbey 1834; organist of Roman catholic chapel in Moorfields 1840–3; member of the Royal soc. of musicians where he played the viola; lived at Nice 1849 to death; published Collection of sacred music as performed at the Portuguese chapel 1811; A collection of motetts with accompaniment for the organ and piano 1815, twelve books; Twelve easy masses, 3 vols. 1816; Mozart’s masses arranged 1819; The evening service 1822, twelve books; Haydn’s masses arranged 1823; Studies in madrigalian scoring 1841, eight books; Novello’s Cathedral choir book 1848; The Fitzwilliam music, selected from the Italian composers in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge, 5 vols 1854; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music, original and arranged. d. Nice 9 Aug. 1861, memorial window placed in north transept of Westminster abbey 1863. Mary Cowden-Clarke’s Life of Vincent Novello (1864) portrait; A short history of cheap music, Novello, Ewer & Co. (1887) portrait.
Note.—On 17 Aug. 1808 he m. Mary Sabilla Hehl who d. Nice 25 July 1854. She was author of A day in Stowe gardens 1825, and wrote the words to her husband’s songs Doubt not my love 1835, Sterne’s Maria 1840, and The infant’s prayer 1845.
NOVERRE, Arthur. b. London 1815; in a government office; educ. St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Stanmore, Middlesex 1838–59; removed to 25 South st. Park lane, London 1859 where he had a high class practice; fellow Med. and Chir. soc. 1849, member of council 1870–71. d. 16 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1878. Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. viii 385 (1880).
NOWELL, John. b. Todmorden, Lancs. 1802; a hand loom weaver; a twister at Fielden Brothers’ works, Waterside, Todmorden to death; botanized over greater part of England, Wales and Ireland, and studied crypto-gamic botany; discovered a cavern moss, schistostega pennata 1840; assisted Thomas Baines in his Flora of Yorkshire; for Baines and Baker’s Yorkshire Flora 1854, he edited The mosses of of the county; the mosses Nowellia curvifolia, Zygodon Nowellii and Lastrea montana Nowelliana were called after him. d. Todmorden 1867. bur. Cross stone. Manchester quarterly i 205–18 (1882).
NOWELL, John. b. Farnley Wood, Yorkshire 1 March 1794; educ. Almondbury gram. sch.; gave lectures in Huddersfield on chemistry; engaged in the fancy trade; aided in founding Huddersfield college; an original member of Archæological soc.; made a copy of the first register book of Almondbury parish 1864; author of An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, also an essay on self-supporting schools of industry and mental discipline 1844; Manual of field gardening or Belgian agriculture made easy 1845, 2 ed. 1846. d. Almondbury 4 March 1869. Hulbert’s Annals (1882) 63, 144, 256, 448–52.
NOWOSIELSKI, Felix. b. Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. d. London 22 April 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery.
NOYES, Thomas Herbert (eld. son of rev. Thomas Herbert Noyes, V. of Bath-Easton, Somerset Dec. 1797 until his death 8 Aug. 1812). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; F.G.S.; author of Some notices of the family of Newton 1857; An Idyll of the Weald, with other lays and legends 1868; Hymns of modern man 1872; translated Lyrics and bucolics, the eclogues of Virgil, a selection of the odes of Horace, &c. 1868; author with G. de Mirelles Soares of Mind or more than matter, a spirit drama, by Pro and Con 1873. d. Craig-en-ross, Millport, Scotland 19 Dec. 1881.
NUGEE, George (youngest son of Francis James Nugee of St. James’s, London, tailor, d. 1844). b. London 24 July 1819; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., senior classical scholar, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; student at Inner Temple; curate to rev. W. J. E. Bennett at St. Paul’s, Wilton place, London 1845; warden of the House of mercy at Park house, Highgate 1846, a most successful penitentiary; principal of St. Paul’s mission college Dean st. Soho, London; sec. of London diocesan home mission; V. of Wymering and R. of Widley, Hants Jany. 1859–72; founded the order of St. Augustine at Wymering 1872; founded a May meeting at Wymering with a May Queen, and in London with a Rose Queen; founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary the Virgin at Wymering, a nursing society partly paid by the English government; worked in conjunction with Father Ignatius; founded St. Austin’s priory New Kent road, London 1872, provost 1872 to death; author of The necessity for Christian education to elevate the native character in India 1846; Instruction on confirmation 1848; Emmaus or things in the way 1848; The holy women of the gospel, lectures 1856; A penitential. By G. N. 1857; The words from the cross as applied to our own deathbeds 1856; St. Austin’s mission handbook of prayer and praise 1875; England and the Jews, their destiny and her duty 1881. d. at residence of his brother-in-law, rev. A. J. Street, Talaton rectory, Devon 5 Oct. 1892. The very rev. provost Nugee, M.A., a retrospect reprinted from the South London gazette (1879); Biograph iv 344–50 (1880); Church portrait journal iii 111 (1879) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii 626 (1885) portrait.
NUGENT, Charles Lavallin (son of colonel Andrew Nugent of Portaferry, co. Down). b. 4 Dec. 1815; ensign 58 foot 21 Aug. 1835, major 18 July 1851; major depôt battalion 28 Jany. 1859, placed on h.p. 1 June 1865; deputy judge advocate 1 April 1865 to 30 June 1875; L.G. 16 March 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; served in New Zealand war 1845–6; commanded the advance guard which penetrated the forest at Ruapekapeka, present at the capture of that pah. d. Southsea 3 Nov. 1884.
NUGENT, Sir Edmond. Alderman of Dublin 15 Jany. 1820, lord mayor 1827–28; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1828; resided at Airfield, St. Dolough’s, co. Dublin. d. 1856.
NUGENT, George Hodges. Vice-consul at Arica, Peru 16 March 1846, and consul there 16 June 1871 to death; acting chargé d’affaires at Lima 13 June to 4 Sept. 1874. d. Mollendo 25 March 1879. I.L.N. lxxv 505 (1879) portrait.
NUGENT, George William. b. 1814; proprietor of royal Cambridge music hall, Commercial st. Whitechapel, London 1869–79. d. at his house 59 Maida Yale, London 8 March 1884. bur. St. Mary’s cemetery, Kensal Green 14 March.
NUGENT, Lavall, Count Nugent (elder son of John Nugent of Ballinacor, co. Wicklow). b. Ballinacor 3 or 30 Nov. 1777; a cadet in the Austrian engineer corps 1 Nov. 1793, captain in the corps to 1 March 1799 when transferred to the quartermaster general’s staff; served in the Italian campaign 1799, and the Marengo campaign 1800; won the cross of Maria Theresa for the battle of Monte Croce 10 April 1800; commandant of 61st infantry regiment 1807–9; served on the staff during campaign of 1809; placed again on active list of Austrian army 1 July 1813; persuaded the Croats to fight against the French on Austria declaring war 11 Aug. 1813; drove the French behind the Isongo after many fights, besieged Trieste castle 16–30 Oct. 1813 when it surrendered; fought actions at Ferrara, Forli and Ravenna, and blockaded Venice Dec. 1813; defeated the French at Reggio, Parma and Piacenza 1814; honorary K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; as commander of a division of Marshall Bianchi’s army entered Florence 15 April 1815; invested Rome early in May 1815; commanded the Austrian troops in Naples 1816; created a prince of the Holy Roman empire 1816; colonel proprietor of 30th infantry regiment 1816; commanded the Neapolitan army as captain-general 1817–20; created a magnate of Hungary 1826; commanded a division at Venice 1828; master of the ordnance and commander of the troops in Lower Austria, the Tyrol, &c. 1830–40; general 1838; commanded in the Banat 1841–2, and in Lower Austria 1843–8; marched into Hungary with a reserve corps which he had organized on breaking out of the revolution 11 Sept. 1848; effected capitulation of Essig 14 Feb. 1849; organised a second reserve corps in Styria, but was driven back towards Servia July 1849; field-marshal Nov. 1849; present as a volunteer at battle of Solferino 24 June 1859. d. Bosilgevo, near Karlstadt, Croatia 21 Aug. 1862.
NUGENT, Sir Oliver (son of hon. Nicholas Nugent, M.D.) b. Antigua 1815; educ. Edinb. univ.; private sec. to sir Henry Light, governor of Antigua 1836; speaker of legislative assembly Antigua 1845; vice-president of legislative council 1867 and president 1869; commanded Antigua yeomanry cavalry 20 years; member of the executive council of Antigua and the Leeward islands to death; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; president of legislative council of the Leeward islands 1872–81. d. Millars, Antigua 28 Aug. 1894.
NUGENT, Sir Percy Fitzgerald, 1 Baronet (son of Thomas Fitzgerald). b. Baltinoran, co. Westmeath 29 Sept. 1797; educ. Old hall green, Herts.; assumed name of Nugent 14 Sept. 1831; created baronet 30 Sept. 1831; M.P. Westmeath 1847–52. d. Donore, near Multifarnham, co. Westmeath 25 June 1874. I.L.N. lxv 23 (1874).
NUGENT, St. George Mervyn (6 son of C. E. Nugent of Farran Connell house, co. Cavan). b. 19 Jany. 1825; ensign 29 foot 25 Oct. 1842, captain 15 March 1853; served in Sutlej campaign against the Sikhs 1845, present at Ferozeshah, Modkee, and Sobraon where wounded; captain 96 foot 26 Dec. 1854 to 18 Nov. 1859; D.A.A.G. Aldershot 1858–61; A.Q.M.G. Nova Scotia 1861–7, made arrangements for arrival in Halifax of 12,000 men and for sending them on to Rivièrè de Loup in winter; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters, Ireland 1870–5; D.Q.M.G. Malta 1877–8, where he received the Indian troops; A.A. and Q.M.G. North Britain 1878–80; lieut. col. 13 March 1880; hon. M.G. 21 July 1880. d. 29 May 1884. Times 4 June 1884 p. 10.
NUN, Richard. Called to Irish bar 1808; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844. d. 1867.
NUNN, Ann (dau. of captain Boyle of the R.N.). b. Southampton 1811; first appeared Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. London as Young Norval in Douglas 1824; acted at the New Pavilion, the Queen’s, and Sadler’s Wells; made a provincial tour; acted at the Queen’s, London with Madame Vestris 1829; had the entire lead at Sadler’s Wells under Osbaldiston for one season; acted in Nottingham where she was the original Pauline in the Lady of Lyons in the provinces; acted in Nottingham, Worcester, Liverpool, Norwich, Preston, and Sheffield circuits; appeared at Bradford in West York circuit as Julia in the Hunchback 12 Aug. 1844, remained in the circuit 12 years, often took the parts of Othello, Romeo, Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, and William in Black eyed Susan; was good as Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Constance in the Love Chase, and Miami in the Green Bushes; often played 14 different characters in a week; m. John Nunn a comedian at Bradford; made her last appearance as Mrs. Haller in The stranger and William in Black eyed Susan at Bradford 1863. d. at the residence of her son John F. Nunn, Granville road, Frizinghall, Bradford 1 Nov. 1890. bur. Undercliff cemet. 4 Nov. The Era 8 Nov. 1890.
NUNNELEY, Thomas (son of John Nunneley). b. Market Harborough, Leics. March 1809; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 12 July 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a surgeon at Leeds 1833 to death; surgeon to the Eye and ear hospital, Leeds, 20 years; lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery in Leeds school of medicine till 1866; surgeon to Leeds general infirmary 1864; gave evidence at the trials of the poisoners Wm. Palmer and Wm. Dove 1856; removed the whole tongue for cancer 1861; performed upwards of 1,000 operations for cataract; author of A treatise on erysipelas 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Anatomical tables 1838; On anæsthesia and anæsthetic substances generally, Worcester 1849; On the organs of vision, their anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 22 Park place, Leeds 1 June 1870. Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii 33 (1867) portrait; Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. vi 354 (1870); Lancet i 823 (1870).
NURSE, William Mountford. b. 1789; a builder; erected some of the terraces which surround Regent’s park, London; resided at 5 Langham place; built the Polytechnic, Regent st. 1837, in Dec. 1838 he leased it to the Polytechnic Institution, which had been incorporated by charter Aug. 1838, erected a new theatre adjoining the building 1847, the Institution took a lease of the new theatre 1848. d. York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 7 Dec. 1855.
NUSSEY, John. L.S.A. 1818; apothecary at 4 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London; apothecary to prince Albert to Dec. 1861; joint apothecary in ordinary to her majesty and the royal household to death; representative of the Apothecaries society of London in the general medical council 29 Oct. 1858, resigned 21 March 1862, treasurer of the council 25 Nov. 1858, resigned 23 June 1860. d. April 1862.
NUTT, David (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and Hanbury’s brewery, London). b. 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields, London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death; bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st. Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages 1857. d. 270 Strand, London 28 Nov. 1863. bur. at Norwood cemet. G.M. xvi 126 (1864).
NUTTALL, John, known as Soldier. b. Barnsley 1835; height 5 ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March 1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds, Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side, Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground 9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb. 1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. d. Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. Illust. sporting news v 57 (1866) portrait; Bell’s Life in London 30 Oct. 1875 p. 4.
NUTTALL, Thomas (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs. printer). b. Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786; brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March 1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri 1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England 1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death; author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia 1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany, Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d. Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii 75, &c. (1889); Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1860) 26–9; Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology of United States (1891) pp. v–vii.
NUTTALL, Thomas (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of the Westminster dispensary). b. London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856, captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut. col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan, the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug. 1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug. 1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April 1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880; L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. d. Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. A. Forbes’s Afghan wars (1892) 299.
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OAKELEY, Frederick (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). b. the Abbey house, Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. d. 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. Reminiscences of Oxford, edited by L. M. Q. Couch (1892) 301–45; A.R. (1845) 95–6; C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley (1845).
OAKELEY, Soulden. b. 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. d. Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856.
OAKES, Charles Henry (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry Oakes, 2 baronet 1756–1827). b. 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5 May 1837; edited Who’s Who 1851 to death. d. 16 May 1864.
OAKES, John Wright. b. Sproston house, near Middlewich, Cheshire 9 July 1820; exhibited fruit-pieces at Liverpool academy 1839 &c., member of the academy, hon. secretary several years; a landscape painter about 1843 to death; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 11 at Suffolk st. 1847–80; resided in London 1859 to death; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1874, resigned 1875; A.R.A. 2 April 1876; honorary M.R.S.A. Nov. 1883. d. Leam house, 34 Addison road, Kensington 8 July 1887. bur. Brompton cemet. I.L.N. lxviii 469 (1876) portrait; Graphic xiii 462, 476 (1876) portrait.
OAKES, Thomas George Alexander. b. 2 June 1827; cornet 12 lancers 16 Jany. 1846, lieut. col. 5 March 1861 to 25 March 1871; M.G. 17 May 1869; inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry 1 April 1873–7; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. Farnham 22 Aug. 1878.
OAKEY, John. b. 1813; glass paper manufacturer at 3 Manor place, Walworth, London 1833, subsequently manufacturer of emery, black lead, emery and glass cloths, glass, emery and flint papers, the Wellington knife polish and knife boards, and other specialties for household use; erected the Wellington mills, Westminster bridge road 1874, where he carried on business to his death, with his son Herbert Oakey as J. Oakey and sons; gained prize medals at Philadelphia 1876, Boston 1883, and the Crystal palace 1884. d. St. John’s, Victoria road, Surbiton 10 Jany. 1887.
OAKLEY, Charles Edward (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) b. Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ. Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850; scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A. 1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden, London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince Albert Victor 1864. d. Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. G.M. xix 526, 651 (1865); Times 19 Sept. 1865 p. 7, 25 Sept. p. 12.
OAKLEY, Herbert William. b. Taunton Jany. 1848; assistant to Boyd-Dawkins, professor of natural history in Owen’s college, Manchester 1870–7; in the Cape mounted police 1877–9; distinguished himself in the Moirosi campaign; assistant curator of colonial museum, Cape Town Sept. 1879 to death; with W. B. Dawkins, F.R.S. he wrote the sections on proboscidea, hyracoidea, and ungulata in P. M. Duncan’s Cassell’s Natural history, vol. ii, 273 et seq. (1878). d. Cape Town 14 Nov. 1884.
OAKLEY, John (son of John Oakley of Blackheath, Kent, land agent). b. Frindsbury near Rochester 28 Oct. 1834; educ. Rochester cathedral school and at Hereford gram. sch.; scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1852; president of the Oxford Union 1856; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1881; C. of St. Luke’s, Berwick st. London 1858–9; C. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1859–67; secretary to London diocesan board of education 1864–8; V. of St. Saviour’s, Hoxton 1867–81; declined bishopric of Nelson, New Zealand 1865; dean of Carlisle 23 Nov. 1881, installed 6 Jany. 1882; dean of Manchester Nov. 1883 to death; wrote in the Manchester Guardian under name of Vicesimus a memoir of Henry Nutcombe Oxenham and a series of papers on Dean Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men 1888–9; author of The Christian aspect and application of the decalogue 1865; The conscience clause, its history 1866. d. Deganwy, near Llandudno 10 June 1891. bur. Chiselhurst, stained glass memorial window erected in south aisle of Manchester cathedral. Health Journal (Manchester) June 1887 pp. 11–13 portrait; I.L.N. 21 June 1890 p. 774 portrait; Pictorial World 21 June 1890 p. 788 portrait.
OAKLEY, Octavius. b. Bermondsey, London 27 April 1800; placed with a cloth manufacturer near Leeds; a portrait painter at Derby about 1825, removed to Leamington 1836; came to London about 1841; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844, exhibited 210 landscapes and groups of gipsies, which gained him the sobriquet of Gipsy Oakley; exhibited 30 water-colour portraits at the R.A. 1826–60; there was a sale of his works at Christie’s March 1869. d. 7 Chepstow villas, Bayswater, London 1 March 1867. bur. Highgate cemet. Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii 268–71 (1891).
OAKLEY, William. b. 1818; governor of Somerset county gaol, Taunton 1850 to death; author of Observations on constabulary and police 1853; Observations on the grand jury system 1853. d. the gaol, Upper High st. Taunton 6 March 1880.
OASTLER, Richard (youngest child of Robert Oastler of Leeds, steward of the Fixby estates, Huddersfield, d. July 1820). b. St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 20 Dec. 1789; educ. the Moravian school at Fulneck; articled to Charles Watson, architect at Wakefield, 4 years; a commission agent, failed 1820; steward to Thomas Thornhill at Fixby hall 5 Jany. 1821, discharged for opposing the poor-law comrs. 28 May 1838; began his attempt to reform the factories by a letter to the Leeds Mercury entitled ‘Yorkshire Slavery’ 29 Sept. 1830; became known as ‘The factory king’; published letters on the ten-hours day and similar subjects in some of the unstamped periodicals; confined more than three years in the Fleet prison, from 9 Dec. 1840, for a debt of £2,000; published The Fleet Papers, being letters to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, of Riddlesworth, from Richard Oastler his prisoner in the Fleet 1841; an Oastler liberation fund was started 1842, released from prison Feb. 1844; made a public entry into Huddersfield 20 Feb. 1844; agitated for a ten hours’ day 1844–7; edited The Home, weekly paper 3 May 1851 to June 1855; edited with rev. J. R. Stephens a weekly journal entitled the Ashton Chronicle; lived at South Hill cottage, Guildford 1845 to death; author of Vicarial tithes, Halifax 1827; The Huddersfield dissenter stark staring mad, because the mask has fallen 1835; The devil-to-do amongst the dissenters in Huddersfield 1835; Slavery in Yorkshire 1835; More work for the Leeds new thief catchers 1836; Damnation, eternal damnation to the fiend begotten coarser food new poor law 1837; Brougham versus Brougham on the new poor law 1847; Factory legislation 1855. d. Harrogate 22 Aug. 1861. bur. Kirkstall churchyard, bronze statue by J. B. Philip at Bradford, unveiled 15 May 1869. Sketch of the life and opinions of R. Oastler, Leeds (1838) portrait; Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 499–503, 671; Spence’s Eminent men of Leeds pp. 53–9 with portrait; R. Oastler’s Fleet papers, vol. 1, number 12 portrait; Illust. news of the world viii 245 (1861) portrait; I.L.N. iv 156 (1844) portrait.
OATES, Francis (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside, Yorkshire). b. Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America 1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873 and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river; started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi 31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. d. of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. Matabele land and the Victoria falls, a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F. Oates, ed. by C. J. Oates 1881, 2 ed. (1889) memoir pp. xix–xlii and portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv, p. clii (1875).
OATES, James Poole. b. 1768; ensign 88 foot 3 March 1797, captain 19 Oct. 1804, placed on h.p. 26 March 1818; served in the West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, and South America; present at almost every siege and battle in the Peninsular war; received the gold medal for Egypt and the silver war medal with ten clasps; lieut. col. in the army 22 July 1830; K.H. 1837. d. 6 Linden grove, Notting hill, London 4 April 1863.
OATES, William Wilfrid. b. 1828; publisher of Roman catholic books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st. Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and Oates to death. d. 28 Dec. 1876.
O’BRIEN, Bartholomew (son of Bartholomew O’Brien of Harbledown, Canterbury). b. 18 June 1818; ensign 2 West India regiment 15 April 1836, lieut. 1838–40; lieut. 77 foot 23 July 1841, major 20 April 1855; major 87 foot 17 Aug. 1855; lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859; lieut. col. military train 15 Nov. 1859, placed on h.p. 12 Sept. 1870; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny and in New Zealand 1863–7; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 1 Addison road, Bedford park, Chiswick, Middlesex 8 March 1885.
O’BRIEN, Cornelius (son of Henry O’Brien of Birckfield, co. Clare). b. Birckfield 1782; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; admitted attorney 1811; M.P. Clare 1832–52, and 1852–7. d. about 1857.
O’BRIEN, Dominic. b. Waterford 5 July 1798; studied theology at the Propaganda college, Rome; D.D.; ordained priest at Rome 1821; chaplain to the Ursuline convent, Waterford; president of St. John’s college, Waterford; one of the secretaries to the synod of Thurles 1850; parish priest of St. Patrick’s, Waterford; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 July 1855 to death, consecrated 30 Sept. 1855. d. at the Episcopal residence, George st. Waterford 12 June 1873. bur. in St. John’s cath. Munster Express 14 June 1873 p. 4; Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 76 (1876).
O’BRIEN, Donat Henchy (2 son of Michael O’Brien of Ennistimon, co. Clare). b. Ireland 5 Nov. 1784; entered navy 16 Dec. 1796; master’s mate of the Hussar frigate, when she was wrecked on the Saints (Ile de Sein) 8 Feb. 1804; a prisoner of war at Verdun 1804, escaped Nov. 1808; lieut. of the Warrior 29 March 1809, assisted at the reduction of Ionian Islands; lieut. of the Amphion March 1810, served in action off Lissa 13 March 1811; commanded the Slaney on the South American station 1818–21; captain 5 March 1821; R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; author of The narrative of captain O’Brien, containing an account of his shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France 1814; My adventures during the late war, comprising a narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, &c. from 1804–27, 2 vols. 1839 portrait. d. Yew house, Hoddesdon 13 May 1857, memorial window in Broxbourne church.
O’BRIEN, Fitz James (son of an attorney-at-law). b. Limerick 1828; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; went to London and spent his fortune of £8,000; edited a periodical in aid of the World’s fair 1851; went to U.S. of America about 1852, where he wrote in the Lantern, Home journal, Evening Post, New York times, American Whig review, and the Atlantic monthly; contributed more than 66 articles to Harper’s Mag. from Feb. 1853; author of The Diamond lens and other stories 1881; What was it 1889; wrote A gentleman from Ireland and other pieces for the theatres; the most able of the brilliant set of Bohemians in New York; joined the 7th regiment of New York national guard 1861. d. Cumberland, Virginia 6 April 1862, having been wounded in a skirmish 26 Feb. bur. Greenwood cemetery. The Diamond Lens (1887) memoir pp. vii–xx; Appleton’s American Biography iv 549 (1888) portrait.
O’BRIEN, James (2 son of Daniel O’Brien of Granard, co. Longford, wine merchant). b. 1805; educ. at Edgworthstown school and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829; student at Gray’s Inn 24 March 1830; acting editor of Henry Hetherington’s Poor man’s guardian, an unstamped paper 1831; wrote in Hetherington’s Poor man’s conservative, signed his articles Bronterre, and called himself subsequently James Bronterre O’Brien; started Bronterre’s National Reformer 1837, and in 1838 the Operative, which ceased July 1839; a delegate to the Chartist meeting in Palace yard, Westminster 17 Sept. 1838; contributed violent articles to the Northern Star 1839; tried at Newcastle Feb. 1840 on a charge of conspiracy, when acquitted, but sentenced at Liverpool April 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment for seditious speaking; quarrelled with Feargus O’Connor, who called him the ‘Starved Viper’; edited the British Statesman June to Dec. 1842, and The National Reformer 1845; a delegate to Chartist convention 4 April 1848, but withdrew 9 April; edited Reynold’s Newspaper for short time in 1848; lectured on his scheme of social reform at John st. institute and at the Eclectic institute, Denmark st. Soho, London; author of The life and character of Maximilian Robespierre 1837, vol. 1, no more published; Ode to lord Palmerston 1856; An ode to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1857; An elegy on the death of Robespierre 1857; A vision of hell, lord Overgrown’s dream, his lordship’s reunion with sir Robert Peel in the regions below 1859. d. Hermes st. Pentonville, London 23 Dec. 1864. R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartist movement (1854) 114 et seq.
O’BRIEN, James. b. 1810; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1843, M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1859; entered Magdalen hall, Oxf.; incorporated B.A. at Hertford coll. 1861, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1863; P.C. of St. Patrick, Hove, Brighton 1858, built a church at his own cost £20,000, 1868, the patronage of which he bequeathed to Hove; he figures in Cuthbert Bede’s novel Mattins and Mutton’s, or the beauty of Brighton, 2 vols. 1866, as Dr. O’Lion vol i, p. 319 et seq. d. St. Patrick’s parsonage 8 Jany. 1884.
O’BRIEN, James (3 son of James O’Brien of Limerick). b. Limerick 27 Feb. 1806; educ. at Belfast institution and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; third serjeant at law 1848–51; second serjeant at law 1851 to 25 Jany. 1858; bencher of Kings inns 1849; M.P. Limerick 1854–8; justice of court of queen’s bench 25 Jany. 1858 to death. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 29 Dec. 1881. Law mag. and law review iii 209 (1857); Law times lxxii 176 (1882).
O’BRIEN, James Thomas (son of Michael Burke O’Brien, corporation officer of New Ross, Westmeath, d. 1826). b. New Ross, Sept. 1792; educ. endowed school of New Ross; a pensioner at Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1810, scholar 1813, gold medalist 1815, fellow 1820–36, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1831; one of the six Dublin univ. preachers 1828–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 30 March 1833; voted freedom of borough of New Ross Sept. 1826; V. of Clondahorky, Raphoe 1836–7; V. of Arboe, Armagh 1837–41; dean of Cork 9 Nov. 1841, instituted 5 Jany. 1842; bishop of Ossory, Fearns, and Leighlin 9 March 1842 to death, consecrated in Trinity college chapel 20 March 1842; restored the use of the offertory in the cathedral; author of An attempt to explain the doctrine of justification by faith only, in ten sermons 1833, 3 ed. 1863; Sermons upon the nature and effects of faith 1833, 5 ed. 1891; Tractarianism, its present state and the only safeguard against it 1850; and 20 other books. d. 49 Thurlow sq. London 12 Dec. 1874. bur. in churchyard of St. Canice’s cathedral, Kilkenny 19 Dec. W. G. Carroll’s Memoir of J. T. O’Brien (1875) portrait.
O’BRIEN, John (brother of James O’Brien 1806–81). M.P. city of Limerick 1841–52; of Elmvale, co. Clare. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 5 Feb. 1855. Freeman’s Journal 7 Feb. 1855 p. 3.
O’BRIEN, John (son of a solicitor by a Miss Nalder). b. Nenagh, co. Tipperary 1811; educ. Trinity college, Dublin to 1834; a sporting man residing at Limmer’s hotel, London 1844, and setting up for a leader of fashion; had horses trained by Thomas Dawson of Middleham; purchased Traverser colt 1843, with whom he won many races; purchased Grimston and Jonathan Wild, won Goodwood stakes with the latter and the Goodwood cup with Grimston 1846; said to be worth £25,000 after the Goodwood of 1846; lost all his money by 1848; pawned some paintings on which the Bishop of Bond st. (Wm. Bishop d. 1871) had made advances, sent to Newgate 1862; fined £100 for an assault on Dollar Smith 1862; became a broken down swell. d. Nenagh 29 Sept. 1869. Sporting Times 22 Aug. 1885 p. 2.
O’BRIEN, Joseph. b. 1793; entered navy 25 June 1807; lieut. in the Impregnable at bombardment of Algiers 1816; commander of the Beaver sloop 1826; captain 8 Aug. 1829, when he went on h.p; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. d. Fareham 17 Nov. 1865.
O’BRIEN, Matthew (son of Matthew O’Brien, M.D.). b. Ennis 1814; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1834, junior fellow 1840–1; third wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; moderator in the mathematical tripos 1843–4; lecturer on practical astronomy at R.M.A. Woolwich 10 Jany. 1849 to death; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in King’s college, London 8 March 1844 to 17 Aug. 1854; author of Mathematical tracts, Part i on Laplace’s Coefficients 1840, no more published; An elementary treatise on the differential calculus 1842; The senate house problems for 1844, with solutions 1844; A treatise on plane co-ordinate geometry 1844, part i; On a new notation for expressing conditions and equations in geometry 1847. d. Petit Ménage, Jersey 22 Aug. 1855.
O’BRIEN, Michael William (son of William O’Brien). b. 29 Sept. 1813; educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; barrister L.I. 5 May 1842; revising barrister 1854; serjeant at law 13 May 1862; recorder of Lincoln Jan. 1872 to death. d. 57 Brunswick road, Brighton 2 June 1873. Law times lv 209 (1873).
O’BRIEN, Sir Patrick, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Timothy O’Brien, d. 1862). b. Dublin 1823; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847; called to the Irish bar 1844; M.P. King’s county 1852–85; succeeded to the baronetcy 4 Dec. 1862; refused to cooperate with the Parnellite party; at one time he complained to the speaker of the insolence of a member, whom he called ‘the young sea serpent from county Clare’; a well known member of the Reform club; author of Notes of interviews with the ministers of France in reference to the policy of Louis Napoleon 1852; The French and English in Rome, with notes of interviews with the Pope and cardinal Antonelli 1853; Journal of a residence in the Danubian principalities 1854; resided 10 Bryanstown square, London. d. 20 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 25 April 1895.
O’BRIENN, Terence. Lieut. 87 foot 7 Jany. 1819, major 18 April 1845 to 31 July 1846, when placed on h.p.; assistant quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1855 to 6 Nov. 1860; commanded the troops in Ceylon 6 Nov. 1860 to death; M.G. 13 Feb. 1861; granted service reward 10 Nov. 1856. d. on board P. and O. ship Golconda at Suez 27 July 1865, aged 66.
O’BRIEN, Sir Timothy, 1 Baronet (son of Timothy O’Brien of Tinnekilly, co. Tipperary). b. co. Tipperary 1790; merchant; Spanish consul and consul for Parma and Placentia 50 Fleet st. Dublin; governor of the Hibernian bank; lord mayor of Dublin 1844 and 1849; M.P. Cashel 1846–59; created baronet 25 Aug. 1849 on occasion of the queen’s visit to Ireland. d. 14 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 4 Dec. 1862.
O’BRIEN, William Shoney. b. Abbeyleix, Ireland 1825; emigrated to New York, admitted a citizen 1845; worked in the mines in California 1849; with J. C. Flood kept the Auction lunch saloon, San Francisco 1854–66; a ship chandler; with J. C. Flood, J. S. Fair and John Mackey held the silver mine on the Comstock ledge, Nevada, called the big bonanza 1874, from which they gained immense wealth, and became known as the Bonanza Kings, he held one fifth part of the mine. d. San Rafael, California 2 May 1878, left from 15 million to 20 million dollars. Appleton’s American biography iv 551 (1888).
O’BRIEN, William Smith (2 son of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet 1773–1837). b. Dromoland, co. Clare 17 Oct. 1803; educ. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; assumed additional name of Smith on death of his maternal grandfather; M.P. Ennis 1828–31; fought a duel with Thomas Steele, O’Connell’s ‘head pacificator’; M.P. Limerick 1835–48; a motion in house of commons declaring him guilty of contempt for refusing to serve on a railway committee of which he had been appointed a member, was carried by 120 votes 28 April 1846, committed to custody of sergeant-at-arms 30 April and discharged 25 May; made his last speech in house of commons 10 April 1848; joined the Repeal Association 20 Oct. 1843 and became the second man in the movement; seceded from O’Connell’s party 27 July 1846; chief founder of the Irish Confederation, which first met 13 Jany. 1847; met Mitchel at the confederate soirée at Limerick 29 April 1848, which meeting is burlesqued by Thackeray in his The Battle of Limerick (W. M. Thackeray’s Ballads and Tales 1869, pp. 179–83); tried in court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 May 1848, for his speech at meeting of the Irish confederation 15 March urging formation of a national guard, but the jury were discharged without returning a verdict 16 May; made an attack on the police at Boulah Common, near Ballingarry 29 July 1848, which failed, arrested at Thurles railway station 5 Aug., tried at Clonmel by a special commission 28 Sept., found guilty of high treason 7 Oct. and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 9 Oct., this sentence was commuted to transportation for life and he was sent to Tasmania 29 July 1849, granted a pardon 26 Feb. 1854; resided at Brussels 1854–6; returned to Ireland July 1856; author of Considerations relative to the renewal of the East India company’s charter 1830; Principles of government or meditations in exile, 2 vols. 1856. d. Penrhyn arms, Bangor 18 June 1864. bur. Rathronan churchyard, co. Limerick 24 June, statue by Thomas Farrell, R.H.A. erected close to O’Connell bridge, Dublin 1870. Cusack’s The liberator: his life and times (1872) 573–5; Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 316–7, 331–3, 511, 561; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 469–533 (1850); Sullivan’s New Ireland i 163–8 (1877); Clark and Finnelly’s House of Lords cases ii 465–96 (1851); T. C. Anstey’s Case as to the legality of the arrest of W. S. O’Brien 1846; J. G. Hodge’s Report of trial of W. S. O’Brien for high treason 1849; I.L.N. iv 424 (1844) portrait, viii 300 (1846) portrait, xiii 92, 220 (1848) portrait.
O’BRYAN, William (2 son of Mr. Bryant). b. Gunwen, Luxulyan, Cornwall 6 Feb. 1778; converted 5 Nov. 1795; changed his name to O’Bryan; preached in East Cornwall and West Devon; resided for some years at Liskeard; expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist society Nov. 1810; formed a small sect constituted under name of Arminian Bible Christians, otherwise Bryanites, at Lake in Cornwall 1815; the greater part of his adherents seceded in 1829, and founded a separate society under the name of Bible Christians; emigrated to U.S. of America 1831, preached a great deal, but was not able to found a church; author of The rules of society, or a guide to conduct for those who desire to be Arminian Bible Christians, 2 ed. 1812; A collection of hymns for the use of the people called Arminian Bible Christians, Stoke Damerel 1825; Travels in the United States of America 1836. d. Brooklyn, New York 8 Jany. 1868. Thorne’s William O’Bryan (1888); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874) 406.
O’BRYEN, James Joseph (son of Terence O’Bryen of Glancolumbhill, co. Clare). b. 1823; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 22 Nov. 1843, served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and was present in battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon, medal and two clasps; adjutant of the 16 N.I. till his regiment was disbanded in the mutiny 1857; barrack master at Moradabad and at Almorah; second in command of the 16 or Lucknow regt.; joined the staff corps on its formation, major 22 Nov. 1863, second in command of 22 Punjab N.I. 1864, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1869, served in Lushai expedition 1872, medal and clasp, colonel 1874, present in Jowaki campaign 1877, marched with his regt. into Afghanistan Dec. 1879. d. Safed Sang 22 Jany. 1880. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 150–1 portrait, plate xii.
O’CALLAGHAN, Edmund Bailey. b. Mallow near Cork 28 Feb. 1797; studied medicine in Paris 1820–2; emigrated to Canada 1823; practised at Quebec 1827–30; assisted in forming the association called The Friends of Ireland, in Quebec; removed to Montreal 1830; edited The Vindicator, the organ of the Canadian patriots 1834, the office of his paper was wrecked by members of the tory Doric club 6 Nov. 1835; member for Yamaska in the assembly of Upper Canada 1835; fought on the side of the revolutionists at battle of St. Denis 23 Nov. 1837, when the rising failed he fled to U.S. of America, a reward was offered for his apprehension as a traitor 29 Nov. 1837; practised as a doctor at Albany; edited The Northern Light, an industrial journal; hon. M.D. univ. of St. Louis 1846, and LL.D. St. John’s college, Fordham, Massachusetts; edited State records, or documentary history of the state of New York, 11 vols. 1849–51; author of The late session of the provincial parliament of Lower Canada, by An old countryman 1836; History of New Netherlands, or New York under the Dutch, 2 vols. 1846–8; Jesuit relations of discoveries in Canada and the northern and western states 1636–72, 1847; A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures printed in America 1861. d. 651 Lexington avenue, New York 29 May 1880. bur. Calvary cemetery 2 June. Magazine of American history July 1880 pp. 77–80.
O’CALLAGHAN, John Cornelius (son of John O’Callaghan, attorney). b. Dublin 1805; educ. at Jesuit coll. at Clongowes Wood; called to Irish bar 1829, but did not practice; wrote for The Comet, Dublin weekly paper 1830–3, then for The Irish monthly magazine, his contributions to these two periodicals were published under title of The Green Book, or gleanings from the writing desk of a literary agitator 1841, 2 ed. 1845; was on the staff of The Nation newspaper 1842, using the signature of Gracchus, wrote The Exterminator’s song in the first number; edited Charles O’Kelly’s Macariæ Excidium, or the destruction of Cyprus 1846, being the secret history of the revolution in Ireland from 1688–91; author of The Irish in the English army and navy 1843; History of the Irish brigade in the service of France, Dublin 1854, vol. 1, another ed. Glasgow 1870. d. Fitzgibbon street, Dublin 24 April 1883. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland i, 18, 103 (1884); Irish Monthly xvii 503 (1889), xviii 411–21 (1890); Freeman’s Journal 25 April 1883 and 5 Feb. 1892.
O’CALLAGHAN, William Frederick Ormonde (2 son of 2 viscount Lismore, b. 1815). b. London 14 Nov. 1852; educ. Eton 1868 etc.; M.P. co. Tipperary Feb. 1874 to death. d. 20 April 1877. Times 23 April 1877 p. 6.
OCEANA, stage name of Oceana Renz (dau. of Ethardo the spiral ascensionist). b. at sea and christened Oceana 1858; a slack wire walker, first came out in Italy 1865; first appeared in England at the Canterbury music hall; played at the Cirque d’eté, Paris 1878; acted Leo in Les pirates de la Savane at the Théâtre des nations, Paris; was for some seasons at the Hippodrome, Paris; visited all the capitals of Europe; appeared with W. Holland’s circus at Covent Garden theatre, London Dec. 1884; m. Ernest Renz of the Circus Renz, Berlin, who is dead; last appeared in England at the Trocadero music hall 1883. d. of paralysis at Nice 17 April 1895. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xxii 412, 461 (1885) portrait.
O’CONNELL, Charles (son of Daniel O’Connell of Porthagee, co. Kerry). b. 1805; M.P. co. Kerry 1833–4; resident magistrate in Bantry 1847 to death. d. Ballynabloun, co. Kerry 20 Jany. 1877. Times 23 Jany. 1877 p. 6.
O’CONNELL, Sir James, (1 Baronet) 4 son of Morgan O’Connell of Carhen, co. Kerry 1739–1809). b. Carhen house, co. Kerry 10 Jany. 1786; educ. Cork; created baronet 29 Oct. 1869. d. Lakeview, near Killarney 28 July 1872. I.L.N. lxi 143 (1872).
O’CONNELL, John (3 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. Dublin 24 Dec. 1810; called to the Irish bar 1837; M.P. Youghall 15 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; M.P. Athlone 1837–41; M.P. Kilkenny 1841–7; M.P. Limerick 1847–51; M.P. Clonmel 21 Dec. 1853 to Feb. 1857; helped his father in the repeal agitation and prepared reports for the repeal association; tried with his father in the court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844, sentenced to 9 months imprisonment and to pay a fine of £50, 30 May, imprisoned in Richmond gaol 30 May, released 4 Sept., the house of lords having reversed the judgment of the queen’s bench; succeeded his father as head of the repeal association in Ireland, which was dissolved for want of funds 6 June 1848; carried on an agitation under popular name of the ‘Young Liberator’; clerk of the Hanaper office, Ireland Feb. 1857 to death; edited The life of Daniel O’Connell, 2 vols. 1846; The select speeches of D. O’Connell, 2 vols. 1854–5; author of An argument for Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1847; Recollections and experiences during a parliamentary career, 2 vols. 1849. d. Gowran hill, Kingstown, near Dublin 24 May 1858. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 28 May. Reports of state trials, n.s., vol. v (1893); Shaw’s Report of the Irish state trials (1844); I.L.N. iv, 88 (1844) portrait.
O’CONNELL, Maurice (brother of preceding). b. 1803; called to Irish bar 1827; M.P. Clare 1831–2; M.P. borough of Tralee 1832 to death; wrote in Mrs. Johnstone’s Edinburgh Tales, 3 vols. 1845–6, The Legend of the Big fluke ii, 144–7, and The Ross Beh wrecker ii, 147–51. d. London 17 June 1853. I.L.N. xxii 507 (1853).
Note.—Daniel O’Connell, his 3 sons, and 2 of his sons-in-law were all members of the first reformed parliament.