O’CONNELL, Sir Maurice Charles (elder son of general sir Maurice Charles Philip O’Connell, acting governor of N.S.W. 1846, d. Sydney 25 May 1848). b. Sydney Jany. 1812; educ. East Sheen 1819, and the high sch. Edinb.; ensign 73 foot 25 March 1828, lieut. 25 Nov. 1831, placed on h.p. 24 July 1835; lieut. col. of the 10 Munster light infantry 1835, which he had raised in Ireland for service under queen Isabella of Spain against Don Carlos; was present in several engagements between the Christinos and the Carlists; D.A.G. of the British legion in Spain, and then general of brigade 1836, the British legion was disbanded at San Sebastian 1837; created knight commander of Isabella the Catholic, knight of San Fernando, and knight extraordinary of Charles III.; lieut. 51 foot 25 Nov. 1837; captain 28 foot 22 June 1838, sold out 24 May 1844; military secretary to his father in N.S.W.; settled in N.S.W. as a breeder of horses 1844, a great authority on breeding; contested Sydney for the first legislative council 1843; member for Port Philip Aug. 1845 to 7 Nov. 1848; a comr. for crown lands in the Burnett district 7 Nov. 1848; government resident comr. of crown lands and police magistrate of Port Curtis Jany. 1854 to 10 Dec. 1859; member of the first legislative council of Queensland 29 May 1860, president of the council Aug. 1860 to death; administered the government of Queensland 4 Jany. to 14 Aug. 1868, 2 Jany. to 12 Aug. 1871, 12 Nov. 1874 to 23 Jany. 1875; knighted by patent 6 March 1871; colonel commandant of Queensland volunteers; provincial grand master of the freemasons of the Irish constitution. d. Brisbane 23 March 1879, bust in Queensland council chamber, presented to him by the council 1878. Heads of the people i 79 (1847) portrait, ii 113 (1848) portrait of his wife.
O’CONNELL, Morgan (2 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. 30 Merrion sq. Dublin 31 Oct. 1804; an officer in the Irish South American legion which served under Bolivar in Bolivia about 1821–5; served in the Austrian army; M.P. Meath 19 Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1840; first assistant registrar of deeds for Ireland, with £1200 a year, Jany. 1840 granted pension of £780, 22 Oct. 1869; fought a duel with 2 baron Alvanlay at Chalk Farm, London 4 May 1835, when neither was wounded; challenged by Benjamin Disraeli Dec. 1835, but declined to fight. d. 12 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Jany. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 23 Jany. Hitchman’s Public life of Earl of Beaconsfield (1881) 47–55; Irish Monthly xv 160–5 (1887).
O’CONNELL, Morgan David. Educ. Dublin univ. and Glasgow univ., M.D. 1838; L.M. Dublin lying-in-hospital 1833; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1835, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; a surgeon in British army; joined the British legation at Madrid 1830, helped to suppress rebellion against queen Isabella, served in several engagements, received gold medal and clasp of the legion of honour, bearing inscription ‘Spain intends to show her gratitude’; created a knight of the order of St. Ferdinand; settled at Kilmallock as a surgeon. d. Kilmallock 23 Jany. 1887.
O’CONNELL, Morgan John (1 son of John O’Connell of Grena, co. Kerry). b. 27 Aug. 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; student Gray’s Inn 4 May 1833, readmitted 11 June 1851, called 7 June 1852; M.P. co. Kerry 1835–52; one of the most popular Irish members; succeeded to the Coppinger estates, co. Cork. d. at the residence of his father-in-law Carlo Bianconi, Longfield, Tipperary 2 July 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).
O’CONNOR, Arthur (3 son of Roger Connor of Connerville). b. Mitchelstown, co. Cork 4 July 1765; fellow commoner of Trin. coll. Dublin 1779 under name of Arthur Connor, B.A. 1782; called to Irish bar Nov. 1788; member for Philipstown in the Irish parliament 1791, resigned his seat 4 May 1795; joined the United Irishmen 1796; formed with lord Edward Fitzgerald the first Leinster Directory 1796; arrested for seditious libel Feb. 1797, imprisoned in Dublin Castle six months; chief editor of The Press, the organ of the United Irishmen 1797; tried at Maidstone, Kent May 1798 for high treason, when acquitted, but detained as a state prisoner 1798–1803 for negotiating with the French general Hoche; confined at Fort George, Scotland April 1799, released and went to France June 1803; appointed by Bonaparte a general of division 29 Feb. 1804; m. 1807 Eliza de Condorcet, only dau. of Marquis de Condorcet, the mathematician; resided in Rue de Tournon, Paris 1818–34, and in the chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 1834 to death; became a naturalised Frenchman 1818 and took name of Arthur Condorcet O’Connor; author of The measures of ministry to prevent a revolution are the certain means of bringing it on. By a Stoic, Cork 1794; A letter to the earl of Carlisle 1795; Speech on the Catholic bill 1795, 3 ed. 1796; State of Ireland 1798; Etat actuel de la Grande Bretagne 1804; Monopoly the cause of all evil, 3 vols. 1848; edited with Arago The works of Condorcet, 12 vols. 1847–9. d. Chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 25 April 1852. Madden’s United Irishmen, 2nd series, ii 289–324 (1842); Biographical Anecdotes of the founders of the Irish rebellion. By A candid observer (1799) 38–43; Biographie Générale xxxviii 451–4 (1862).
O’CONNOR, Feargus (son of Roger O’Connor of Connorville, co. Cork, Irish nationalist 1762–1834). b. Dangan castle, co. Meath 18 July 1794; educ. at Portarlington gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar; took part in the reform agitation in co. Cork 1831; travelled through the country organising the registration of the new electorate 1832; M.P. co. Cork 29 Dec. 1832, re-elected 24 Jany. 1835 but unseated June 1835 not having the necessary property qualification; contested Oldham 8 July 1835, but received only 32 votes; founded the central committee of radical unions 1836, and the London democratic association 1837; established 18 Nov. 1837 the Northern Star, weekly radical paper published at Leeds, which became the official chartist paper 1838; took the chief part in the chartist convention which met in London 4 Feb. 1839, dissolved 14 Sept.; tried at York 17 March 1840 for seditious libels published in the Northern Star July 1839, sentenced 11 May 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment in York castle, released Sept. 1841; one of the 59 persons tried at Lancaster 1 March 1843, for taking part in the ‘Plug riots’ of Aug. 1842, he was convicted but never called up for judgment; with Mr. Grath held a public debate with Bright and Cobden 5 Aug. 1844; inaugurated the chartist co-operative land company 24 Oct. 1846, afterwards altered to the National land co.; edited with Ernest Jones The Labourer, a monthly magazine, vols. 1–4, 1847–8; purchased estates of W. B. Cliffe, 500 acres for £20,000, Feb. 1847; M.P. Nottingham 1847–52; moved for a committee on the union with Ireland 7 Dec. 1847, when defeated by 232 votes; presided at the chartist meeting on Kennington common 10 April 1848, and presented the chartist petition to the house of commons same evening; went to U.S. of America spring of 1852; grossly insulted Beckett Denison, M.P. in the house of commons 9 June 1852, when committed to custody of the sergeant-at-arms; pronounced to be insane by two medical men 10 June, confined in Dr. Tuke’s asylum at Chiswick June 1852 to 20 Aug. 1854; author of A state of Ireland showing the rise and progress of the present disaffection, Cork 1820; A series of letters to Daniel O’Connell on Catholic emancipation 1836; The trial of Feargus O’Connor, edited by himself, Manchester 1843; A practical work on the management of small farms 1846. d. at his sister’s house 18 Albert terrace, Notting hill, London 30 Aug. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 10 Sept. when 50,000 persons were present. Reports of state trials, n.s., iii 1299–1311 (1891), iv 935–1248, 1352–65 (1892); The Labourer, vol. 2 (1848) portrait; R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism 1854 p. 19 et seq.; J. Frost’s Forty years’ recollections (1880) 169–85; G.M. xliv 545–7 (1855); I.L.N. i 344 (1842) portrait, xii 243 (1848) portrait; Michael Mc Donagh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 83–6.
O’CONNOR, John (son of Mr. O’Connor who emigrated from Kerry to Boston, U.S. 1823). b. Boston Jany. 1824; educ. in co. Essex, Ontario; a farm labourer, lost his leg by an accident; called to the bar in Ontario Jany. 1854; admitted to practise law in state of Michigan, and was thus an American citizen and a British subject at the same time, the point was tested in an election trial between him and Wm. M’Gregor 1874; reeve of Windsor and warden of Essex county; M.P. for Essex in Canadian legislature 1867–74, president of the council; minister of inland revenue and postmaster general successively 1872–3 and 1878–84; Q.C. 1873; M.P. Russell county 1878–84; puisne judge of queen’s bench division, Ontario 17 Sept. 1884 to death. d. Cobourg, Ontario 3 Nov. 1887. Law Journal 10 Dec. 1887 p. 661 col. 2.
O’CONNOR, John (3 son of Francis O’Connor). b. co. Londonderry 12 Aug. 1830; call-boy at the T.R. Dublin 1842; painted scenery for sir E. Tierney 1844, and for earl of Bective 1847; a scene-painter at Drury Lane theatre April 1848, and at Haymarket theatre Oct. 1848, principal scene-painter there 1863–78; visited Ireland at time of the queen’s visit 1849, on return to London painted for Philip Phillips a diorama of The Queen’s visit to Ireland, which was exhibited in the Chinese gallery; A.R.H.A.; exhibited 20 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. 1853–80; drawing master to the London and south western literary and scientific institution 1855–8; painted scenery for Shakespeare tercentary performances at Stratford-on-Avon 1864; took a studio with lord Ronald Gower at 47 Leicester sq. 1872; painted act-drops for the new Sadler’s Wells theatre 1879, St. James’s theatre, and the Minuet act-drop at Haymarket theatre 1879; built a house at 28 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood 1877, and lived there to 1888; painted The marriage of princess Louise and the marquess of Lorne 1871, The thanksgiving service in St. Paul’s 1872, and The jubilee service in Westminster abbey 1887; designed and directed many of the tableaux vivants held at Cromwell house and elsewhere; a member of the Cambridge amateur dramatic club for which he painted scenery many years. d. Heathcroft, Blackwater, Hampshire 23 May 1889. bur. Finchley cemetery.
O’CONNOR, John (son of Edward O’Connor of Mulgeeth house, co. Kildare). b. 1 May 1837; proprietor of many licensed houses in Dublin, and of a bacon curing establishment under the name of Donnelly & Co.; a representative of Inns-quay ward, Dublin 1880, alderman 1883, lord mayor of Dublin 1885; contested co. Kildare April 1880; M.P. South Kerry Dec. 1885, resigned Sept. 1887. d. 23 Rutland square, Dublin 12 Jany. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 15 Jany. Freeman’s Journal 13 Jany. 1891 p. 5, 15 Jany. p. 3.
O’CONNOR, Luke Smythe. b. Dublin 15 April 1806; ensign 1 West India regiment 27 April 1827, lieut. col. 21 Sept. 1855 to 29 July 1862; governor of the Gambia and commander of the troops in West Africa Sept. 1852; stormed Sabbajee the stronghold of the Mohammedan rebels of Combo 1 June 1853, and acquired by treaty considerable’ territory; stormed their stockade in the pass of Boccow Kooka 4 Aug. 1855; brigadier general commanding the troops during the rebellion in Jamaica 1865; member of privy council and president of legislative council of Jamaica; acting governor; granted distinguished service reward 27 Nov. 1855; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; M.G. 24 April 1866. d. 7 Racknistrasse, Dresden 24 March 1873. A. B. Ellis’s History of First West India regiment (1885) 211, 365; A. B. Ellis’s The land of the Fetish (1883) p. 6 et seq.
O’CONNOR, Michael. b. near Cork 27 Sept. 1810; ordained R.C. priest 1 June 1833; professor of sacred scripture in the Irish college, Rome 1833, vice-rector; pastor of Fermoy, Ireland 1834–9; professor in ecclesiastical seminary of St. Charles Boromeo, Philadelphia 1839, president about 1840; built the church of St. Francis Xavier in Fairmount, Philadelphia; vicar general of western part of diocese of Philadelphia 1841; bishop of Pittsburg 1843, consecrated 15 Aug. 1843; introduced the order of St. Benedict for the first time into the U.S. of America 1846; brought a colony of Passionists from Europe, to Pittsburg 1852; finished the Pittsburg cathedral 1855, resigned his see 1860; entered a Jesuit monastery in Germany 1860; professor of theology in Woodstock college, Maryland 1862; socius to the provincial of the Jesuits, and preacher and lecturer in most of the great cities. d. Woodstock 18 Oct. 1872. Appleton’s American Biography iv 553 (1888) portrait.
O’CONOR, Denis Maurice (2 son of Denis O’Conor of Belangare, called The O’Conor Don). b. 1840; educ. Downside coll. near Bath; M.A. univ. of London 1861, LL.D. 1866; sheriff of Roscommon 1865; barrister M.T. 30 April 1866; M.P. co. Sligo 2 Dec. 1868 to death. d. 110 Queen’s Gate, Kensington, London 26 July 1883.
O’CONOR, Sir Richard (2 son of sir Patrick O’Conor of Cork). b. Marble hill, co. Cork 1784; entered navy Sept. 1798; superintendent of the naval yards on the Canadian lakes 1813; commanded the boats at the capture of Oswego 1814; captain 16 Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired 1 Oct. 1846; a retired R.A. 2 Sept. 1850. d. 73 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1855.
O’CONOR, Thomas. b. Dublin 1 Sept. 1770; went to U.S. of America 1801; established with Wm. Kernan a settlement on a tract of 40,000 acres in Steuben, co. New York; resided in New York many years before his death; edited various periodicals, including the Military monitor established 1812, the Shamrock and the Globe founded 1819; author of Selections from several literary works 1821; The Inquisition examined by An impartial observer 1825. d. New York 9 Feb. 1855.
O’CONOR, William Anderson. b. Cork 1820; studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1849, B.A. 1864; entered St. Aidan’s theological college at Birkenhead, and became lecturer on Latin; ordained to curacy of St. Nicholas’s, Liverpool 1853; C. of St. Thomas’s, Liverpool 1854; C. of St. Michael with St. Olave, Chester 1855–8; R. of St. Simon and St. Jude, Manchester 1858 to death; wrote many papers for Manchester statistical society and Manchester literary club 1875 etc.; author of Miracles not antecedently incredible 1861; Faith and works 1868, 5 ed. 1885; The truth and the church 1869; A commentary on the epistle to the Romans 1871, 2 ed. 1886; The epistle to the Hebrews, with an introduction and notes 1872; A commentary on the gospel of St. John 1874; A commentary on Galatians with a revised text 1876; History of the Irish people, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1886; The Irish massacre of 1641, 1885. d. Torquay 22 March 1887. W. A. O’Conor’s Essays in literature and ethics, edited by W. E. A. Axon (1889) memoir pp. v–xvii portrait; The Manchester Quarterly Jany. 1891 pp. 1–26 portrait.
O’CURRY, or CURRY, Eugene (son of Owen or Eugene O’Curry of Dunaha near Carrigaholt, co. Clare, farmer). b. Dunaha 1796; called Owen Oge or Young Owen; worked on a farm; an assistant in Limerick county lunatic asylum to 1834; employed in the topographical and historical section of the ordnance survey in Ireland 1834–7; copied, arranged, and examined Irish manuscripts in the royal Irish academy, Trin. coll. Dublin, and elsewhere 1847; member of council of Celtic society 1852, which in 1855 published a text and translation by O’Curry of two mediæval Irish tales: Cath Mhuighe Leana (The battle of the Plain of Leana) and Tochmarc Momera (The courtship of Momera); examined the Irish manuscripts in the British Museum 1849 and 1855, and wrote the manuscript catalogue of them for the library, a folio volume of 319 pages; professor of Irish history and archæology in the newly founded Catholic univ. of Ireland 1854 to death; delivered his first course of lectures 1855–6, 21 lectures by him were published at the university’s expense 1860; made facsimile copies of a genealogical manuscript of Duald Mac Firbis 1836, and of the Book of Lismore 1839 for the R.I.A., and of the Book of Lecan and the Leabhar Breac for Trin. coll. Dublin; copied eight large vols. of 2906 pages of the ancient Irish law tracts, and wrote out 13 vols. of a rough preliminary translation; edited A collection of ancient Irish law tracts, printed in facsimile 1860; Ancient laws of Ireland 1865; author of Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history 1861; On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish, 3 vols. 1873. d. 2 Portland st. north, Dublin 30 July 1862. bur. Glasnevin cemetery. Irish monthly mag. April 1874 pp. 191–210.
ODAMS, James (son of a land steward). b. Wavenden, Bucks. 6 May 1815; apprentice to a chemist at Northampton; chemist and druggist Rye street, Bishops Stortford from 1837; one of the first to advocate use of artificial manure; assisted to send seeds to French farmers after Franco-German war 1871; erected cattle markets, on 10 acres, near Victoria dock, London, for foreign cattle to prevent contagion to English stock 1866; patented a manure made from blood and formed a company to manufacture it, called the Blood manure and nitro-phosphate co., of which he was managing director 1851; author of Why have a foreign cattle market on the Thames, and where 1866; Racks and troughs, remarks on transmission of cattle by rail 1873. d. The Grange, Bishops Stortford, Herts 6 Feb. 1881. bur. Bishops Stortford cemetery 11 Feb. Live stock journal 11 Feb. 1881 pp. 119–20; The Farmer 14 Feb. 1881 p. 253; I.L.N. 26 Feb. 1881 p. 216 portrait.
ODGER, George, (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). b. Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London; member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder of the International association; a member of the National reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for Bristol July 1870; contested Southwark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874; president of general council of international association of working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers; Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger v. the publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary Review 1870–71. d. 18 High st. Bloomsbury, London 4 March 1877. bur. Brompton cemetery 10 March. The life of George Odger (1877); London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait; W. E. Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 350–2; Graphic xv 270 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 257 (1877) portrait; Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 633–4; Littell’s Living age cxxxiii 2 (1877), a poem.
O’DOHERTY, William James. b. Dublin 1835; worked in the studio of Joseph R. Kirk, R.H.A., sculptor 1852–4; came to London 1854; exhibited under name of W. J. Dogherty at the R.A. 1857 a model in plaster of Gondoline, afterwards executed in marble for R. C. L. Bevan, the banker; sent to the R.A. the model of marble statue of Erin 1860, engraved by T. W. Knight for the Art Journal 1861; called himself Doherty 1860–1, but took name of O’Doherty 1862; exhibited 6 sculptures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1857–64; went to Rome about 1865. d. the hospital of La Charité in Berlin Feb. 1868. Art Journal (1861) 252, (1868) 73.
O’DONEL, Sir George Clendining, 5 Baronet (elder son of sir Richard Annesley O’Donel, 4 bart. 1808–78). b. Newport house, co. Mayo 15 June 1832; ensign 62 foot 22 Dec. 1848, lieut. 23 May 1851, sold out 1852; knighted by the lord lieutenant at Dublin castle 21 Feb. 1865, in compliance with the clause in the patent of baronetcy 1780; succeeded as 5 baronet 9 Nov. 1878. d. Norwood, Surrey 22 Jany. 1889.
O’DONNELL, Sir Charles Routledge (son of lieut. col. H. A. O’Donnell, C.B. of Limerick). b. 1794; ensign 2 foot 9 Sept. 1813; lieut. 15 hussars 7 Sept. 1815, major 14 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; colonel on the staff in Ireland 1843–50; col. 18 hussars 10 Sept. 1864 to death; general 2 April 1865; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem; M.R.I.A.; resided at Trugh, near Limerick. d. Donyland lodge, near Colchester 18 Nov. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 555 (1870).
O’DONNELL, John Francis (son of a shopkeeper). b. Limerick 1837; a reporter on the Manchester News 1854–6; wrote verse and prose in The Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland party 1854 to death; sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, a Clonmel paper 1856–60; on the staff of the Universal News, a weekly R.C. paper in London 1860–2; on the staff of The Nation in Dublin 1862–4, and editor of Duffy’s Hibernian Mag. 1862–4; edited the Universal News 1864–5, and sub-edited The Tablet 1865–8; contributed numerous poems advocating republican principles to the Dublin national journals under pseudonyms of Caviare and Monkton West; London correspondent of the Irish People, the organ of the Fenian movement 1864–5; sent poems to All the year round 1861–2; employed in the London office of the agent-general of New Zealand Sept. 1873 to death; author of The emerald wreath, Dublin 1865; Memoirs of the Irish Franciscans 1871. d. London 7 May 1874. bur. Kensal Green cemet. J. F. O’Donnell’s Poems (1891) memoir pp. vii–xxi; M. McDonogh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 94–8 two portraits.
O’DONNELL, Laurence, D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. d. Taylor’s hill, Galway 23 June 1855. bur. 25 June. The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855 p. 2, 27 June p. 2.
O’DONNELL, Matthew (eld. son of Richard O’Donnell of Kilkenny). b. 1813; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Westmeath 1870; author of A treatise on the law of actions in the civil bill court 1844; A commentary upon the jurisdiction of the court of the assistant barrister 1852; and with Francis Brady of An analytical digest of the cases in courts of equity in Ireland and the house of lords 1840. d. 36 Mountjoy square, Dublin 20 Jany. 1876. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin. Law Times lx 279 (1876); Irish Law Times x 61 (1876).
O’DONNELL, Patrick. b. Meeracladdy, near Derrybeg in Donegal 1835; in America 1859–79; served in Federal army during civil war; kept a public house on the Canadian frontier; sent by the Fenians to the Cape on board the Kinfauns Castle to make away with James Carey, the Fenian crown witness in the Phœnix park murders case, shot him on board the steamer Melrose between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth 29 July 1883, brought to England, tried at the Old Bailey 30 Nov., 1 Dec. 1883, hanged at Newgate 17 Dec. 1883, monument in Roman catholic cemetery Dublin. I.L.N. lxxxiii 300, 302, 545 (1883) two portraits.
O’DONOGHUE, Daniel, known as The O’Donoghue (only child of Charles James O’Donoghue O’Donoghue of the Glens, co. Kerry, d. 1833). b. 1833; educ. Stonyhurst; major of Kelly militia; M.P. Tipperary 1857–65; M.P. Tralee 1865–85; author of A letter to cardinal Manning on his expression of confidence in Mr. Parnell 1886. d. Ballsmahon court, Athlone 7 Oct. 1889. Illust. Times 16 Feb. 1867 p. 97, view of the O’Donoghue addressing the reform meeting in the Agricultural hall, London.
O’DONOGHUE, John. b. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1831, B.A. 1833; called to Irish bar 1837; contributed to the Freeman’s Journal 1838, editor of the Journal 1871; wrote many literary articles in Dublin univ. mag.; author of A book about the Irish bar in 1840; The summary jurisdiction of magistrates at the petty sessions courts in Ireland 1835; Historical memoirs of the O’Briens 1860. d. 9 Henrietta st. London 23 March 1893.
O’DONOGHUE, Patrick. b. Ireland; sentenced to death for high treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. d. New York Feb. 1854.
O’DONOVAN, Edmund (son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 13 Sept. 1844; studied medicine at Trin. coll. Dublin, clerk to the registrar and assistant librarian; contributed to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers from 1866; served in the légion etrangère of the French army Sept. 1870, took part in the battles round Orleans, was wounded and made prisoner; described in the Times and the Hour the Carlist rising in Spain 1873; correspondent of the Daily News in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1876, and in Asia Minor 1877–8; went to Merv 1879, detained there several months; author of The Merv oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian, 2 vols. 1882; went to the Soudan for the Daily News 1883, attached himself to army of Hicks Pasha which marched on Obeid, the army fell into an ambush and O’Donovan was killed 3–5 Nov. 1883, probate of his will was not granted till 1891; brass tablet designed by Herbert Johnson in memory of O’Donovan and six other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections (1892) 1–25; Graphic xxiv 609 (1881) portrait, xxviii 529 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 96 (1883) portrait, lxxxiii 532 (1883) portrait, lxxxv 576 (1884) portrait.
O’DONOVAN, John (4 son of Edmond O’Donovan, farmer, d. 29 July 1817). b. at farm of Attateemore, at foot of Tory hill, Kilkenny 9 July 1809; worked in the Irish record office 1826, and in the historical department of ordnance survey of Ireland 1829; wrote many articles in the Dublin Penny Journal 1832–3, and in the Irish Penny Journal 1840–1; student at Gray’s Inn 15 April 1844, called to Irish bar 1847; employed by the commission for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland 1852 to death; LL.D. Dublin 1850; granted civil list pension of £50, 5 June 1856; author of A grammar of the Irish language, for the use of the senior classes in the college of St. Columba 1845; Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, 7 vols. 1851. d. 36 Upper Buckingham st. Dublin 9 Dec. 1861. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin, his widow Mary Anne O’Donovan granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1863. J. T. Gilbert’s Memoir of John O’Donovan; J. O’Donovan’s Annala Rioghachta vi 2160–1 (1851); Dublin univ. mag. lix 85–8 (1862).
O’DOWD, James Klyne. b. 1802; called to Irish bar Michaelmas term 1832; solicitor for merchant shipping; assistant solicitor of customs; published The law relating to the sale of estates in Ireland 1849; Customs’ administrators and customs’ reformers, the digest of the Charlotte row committee 1851, 2 ed. 1853; The new practice of the court of chancery 1852; The merchant shipping amendment act 1863; The law and facts of the case of the Alabama 1873. d. 24 Nov. 1879. Law Times lxviii 140 (1879).
Note.—It was upon his legal advice the government declined to take steps to prevent the construction of the Alabama 1862.
O’DWYER, Andrew Carew (son of Joseph O’Dwyer of Cork and Waterford, merchant). b. 1800; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; M.P. Drogheda 15 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834, re-chosen 12 Jany. 1835 but unseated on petition 24 April 1835; secondary of Irish exchequer; connected with periodical press during agitation for Catholic relief act; author of Danger of conceding ecclesiastical securities, Concordat in the Netherlands 1829; Belgium in 1828, Ireland in 1851, 1851; The catholic question of 1851, considered 1851. d. 15 Nov. 1877. Law Times lxiv 91 (1877).
O’FARRELL, Michael Joseph. b. Limerick 2 Dec. 1832; ordained R.C. priest 18 Aug. 1855; professor of dogmatic theology in the college of the Sulpitian order in Paris; professor in the Sulpitian seminary at Montreal; pastor of St. Patrick’s church, New York, then of St. Peter’s, New York 1869–72; pastor at Rondout 1872, then at St. Peter’s again 1872–81; bishop of Trenton 1881 to death, consecrated in New York cathedral by cardinal McClosky. d. Trenton 1 or 2 April 1894.
O’FERRALL, Richard More (eld. son of Ambrose O’Ferrall of Balyna, co. Kildare 1752–1835). b. Balyna, Kildare 1797; M.P. co. Kildare 1830–47 and 1859–65; M.P. co. Longford 21 April 1851 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1835 to 28 Aug. 1839; secretary to the admiralty 4 Oct. 1839 to 9 June 1841; secretary to the treasury 9 June 1841; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1847 to 1851; P.C. 22 Nov. 1847. d. Kingstown, near Dublin 27 Oct. 1880. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of right rev. Dr. Doyle i 394, ii 110, 558 (1880).
OFFICER, Sir Robert (son of Robert Officer). b. Scotland 1800; educ. St. Andrew’s univ., B.A., M.A.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; went to Van Diemen’s Land; government medical officer for New Norfolk; practised at Hobart Town in partnership with James Wilson Agnew; assistant colonial surgeon in Van Diemen’s Land; member of the legislative council for Buckingham 1853; member of house of assembly for Glenorchy Sept. 1856 to April 1877, chairman of committees 1856–61; speaker of the house Aug. 1861 to April 1877; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Hall Green, near New Norfolk, Tasmania 8 July 1879.
OFFOR, George (son of George Offor). b. 1787; bookseller at 2 Postern row, Tower Hill, London, where he acquired a fortune; made a collection of early printed English bibles, psalters, and testaments, and a unique collection of Bunyan’s works, the greater part of his library was burnt in Sotheby’s auction rooms 29 June 1865; author of An easy introduction to reading the Hebrew language 1814; The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpation of the church 1846; edited The Hebrew psalter revised 1820; The New Testament by W. Tyndale 1836; The Pilgrim’s progress 1847 for Hanserd Knolly’s society; The Pilgrim’s progress 1856, 3 ed. 1884; The works of John Bunyan, 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1862; Profitable meditations being Christ and a sinner by J. Bunyan 1860; Little books by J. Bunyan 1873. d. Grove house, Grove st. South Hackney 4 Aug. 1864. bur. Abney Park cemet. G.M. Oct. 1864 p. 528.
O’FLAHERTY. Richard James. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; assistant surgeon in the army 9 Jany. 1835, deputy inspector general 19 July 1859, surgeon general 19 Oct. 1872 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Malabar hill, Bombay 8 Dec. 1874.
OGBORNE, Elizabeth (dau. of David Ogborne, artist). b. Chelmsford; bapt. 16 May 1759; author of The history of Essex, with notices of the most distinguished natives and engravings by Mr. Ogborne, the first volume was published in 1817, but the engraved title page is dated 1814, no more appeared; many of her manuscripts were used as waste paper, the remainder were purchased in March 1854 by Edward J. Sage, an Essex antiquary. d. Great Portland st. London 22 Dec. 1853.
OGDEN, Charles Richard (son of Isaac Ogden, judge of court of king’s bench at Montreal). b. Montreal 1791; called to bar at Montreal 1812; solicitor general of province of Lower Canada 1823, attorney general 17 Nov. 1832; barrister L.I. 22 April 1844; attorney general of Isle of Man 29 Jany. 1844 to death; registrar of Liverpool district probate court 1858 to death. d. Edge hill, near Liverpool 19 Feb. 1866.
OGDEN, J. H. b. Manchester 1829 or 1830; a singer of Irish comic songs at the Raglan and other London music halls, and in the provinces to 1861; appeared at the Canterbury music hall, and Lea’s Melodion, New York 1861; was singing in London 1862–4; returned to U.S. of America and sang at the Casino, Philadelphia, June 1864. d. 722 Sansom st. Philadelphia 11 Aug. 1864. Era 4 Sept. 1864 p. 6.
OGDEN, John. b. 1790; author of Varieties in verse, including songs for the celebration of Shakspeare’s birthday 1823; The friendly observer, or remarks and suggestions on various subjects of public interest 1851. d. 15 Dec. 1853. bur. Highgate cemetery. F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs (1872) 146.
OGDEN, John. b. Leeds 1829; apprentice to sir E. Baines, printer, Leeds; in employment of Woodfall and Kinder, printers, London 1851, manager of the works to 1866; a printer at Brewhouse yard, 172 St. John’s st. Clerkenwell, as John Ogden and co.; he worked long hours and was a proficient in all branches of his business; he printed Hart’s Army list, the A B C railway guide, the Argosy magazine, and at one time The Figaro and Whitaker’s Almanack. d. Ilkley, Yorkshire 18 July 1887. Bookseller, Aug. 1887 p. 764.
OGDEN, Jonathan Robert (only son of Robert Ogden, merchant, d. 1816). b. Leeds 13 June 1806; became a unitarian; a piano and violin player, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and August Kollman in London; studied music in Paris, Munich, and Vienna 1827; resided at Lakefield, Sawrey, Lancs. 1834 to death; composed Holy songs and musical prayers for four voices, London 1843, in which he adapted pieces by Beethoven and others as hymn tunes, these adaptations were omitted from the seventh ed. of Holy songs 1873. d. Lakefield 26 March 1882. bur. Hawkshead churchyard 31 March. Inquirer 1 April 1882 p. 207, 22 April pp. 261–2.
OGILVIE, Charles Atmore (son of John Ogilvie of Whitehaven, Cumberland, who d. 25 April 1839). b. Whitehaven 20 Nov. 1793; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1842; fellow of Balliol 1816–34, tutor 1819–30, bursar 1822, and senior dean 1842; R. of Wickford, Essex 4 Jany. 1822 to 1833; R. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1822–39; a select preacher before univ. of Oxf. 1825, 1832 and 1844; Bampton lecturer 1836; V. of Duloe, Cornwall 1833–40; R. and V. of Ross, Herefordshire 6 Dec. 1839 to death; regius professor of pastoral theology at Oxford 23 April 1842 to death; canon of Ch. Ch. 1849 to death; author of On the union of classical and mathematical studies, printed in the Oxford English prize essays, vol. iii 1836; The apostolical origin of the three orders of the christian ministry 1836; Considerations on subscription to the thirty nine articles 1845. d. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Feb. 1873. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies (1875) 43–52; Couch’s Reminiscences of Oxford (1892) 208, 422; Letters of J. B. Mozley (1885) 27, 33, 37, 142, 162, 184.
OGILVIE, George. Professor of institutes of medicine in Aberdeen univ. 1860–77; author of An introductory lecture at Marischal college and university of Aberdeen 1852; The master builders’ man, or the principles of organic architecture 1858; The genetic cycle in organic nature, or the succession of forms in the propagation of plants and animals 1859; On the forms and structure of fern stems 1859.
OGILVIE, John (son of Wm. Ogilvie, farmer). b. parish of Marnoch, Banffshire 17 April 1797; worked as a ploughman till 1818, when he lost one of his legs; a schoolmaster; entered Marischal coll. Aberdeen Oct. 1824, M.A. 1828, LL.D. 1848; mathematical master in Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen 13 May 1831 to July 1859; contributed under the signature Iota, the imitations of Horace in the Scottish dialect to the Aberdeen Mag. 1831–2; edited The imperial dictionary, English, technical, and scientific, 2 vols. 1850, Supplement 1855, new ed. 4 vols. 1882–3; The comprehensive English dictionary 1864; The students’ English dictionary 1865; An English dictionary for the use of schools 1867. d. Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1867. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 613–16.
OGILVIE, Robert Annesley. b. 1807; educ. Eton; clerk in secretary’s office, custom house, London 27 July 1827, inspector general of the waterside department 27 Aug. 1857; surveyor general of customs 1863–76; assistant comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with France 23 Jany. 1860; joint comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with Austria 16 Dec. 1865; British delegate at conference on sugar convention in London 1–12 Aug. 1872; C.B. 28 Aug. 1872; his widow Robina Ogilvie was granted a civil list pension of £100 19 June 1879. d. 24 Mecklenburgh square, London 13 May 1879.
OGILVIE, William. Cadet Bombay army 1804; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 20 June 1805, lieut. 20 Feb. 1809 to 1818; lieut. 10 N.I. 1818–20; lieut. 12 N.I. 1820; captain 26 N.I. 19 July 1821, major 26 Jany. 1838 to 27 Nov. 1844; judge advocate general 30 June 1836 to death; lieut. col. 20 N.I. 27 Nov. 1844 to 22 Dec. 1849; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 22 Dec. 1849 to death. d. Poonah 17 June 1851.
OGILVY, Alexander William. Sub-lieut. R.N. 18 March 1869; lieut. 8 April 1873, retired 13 Oct. 1876; naval knight of Windsor 6 May 1881 to death. d. 27 Aug. 1887.
OGILVY, David Steuart. Unpaid vice-consul at Gallipoli, Dardanelles 9 May 1864 to 7 July 1868; captain on the staff of French army Oct. or Nov. 1870. killed by a bullet in the forehead while charging the Germans at battle of Beaune la Rolande 28 Nov. 1870.
OGILVY, George Ramsay (son of James Ramsay). b. about 1820; assumed name of Ogilvy; member of faculty of advocates 1844; sheriff substitute of the Forfar district 25 May 1857; sheriff substitute of Dundee 16 Oct. 1860, resigned Sept. 1866. d. Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1866. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 276.
OGILVY, Sir John, 9 Baronet (1 son of admiral sir Wm. Ogilvy, d. 1823). b. Edinburgh 17 March 1803; educ. Harrow 1817–21; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 5 Nov. 1821; lieut. 2 life guards 1826–31; succeeded 1823; convenor of Forfarshire 1828 to Dec. 1889; vice lieut. of Forfarshire 1860; contested Montrose 9 March 1855; M.P. Dundee 1857–74; hon. col. 1 Dundee rifle volunteers 1865 to death; major general Royal company of archers; resided Baldoven, near Dundee. d. Archerfield, Berwickshire, the residence of his son Henry Hamilton Ogilvy 29 March 1890.
OGLANDER, Sir William, 6 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Oglander, d. 1806). b. Parnham, Dorset 13 Sept. 1769; succeeded 5 Jany. 1806; M.P. Bodmin 1807–12. d. Parnham 17 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 297 (1852); Hutchin’s Dorset i 445 (1796), iv 371 (1815).
OGLE, Sir Charles, 2 Baronet (eld. son of admiral sir Chaloner Ogle, 1 baronet 1727–1816). b. 24 May 1775; entered navy 1787; captain of the Minerva in the Mediterranean 11 Jany. 1796; captain of the Princess Augusta yacht 1806–15; R.A. 12 Aug. 1819; commander-in-chief in North America 27 April 1827 to 14 July 1830; V.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 23 Nov. 1841; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 30 Sept. 1845 to 13 Sept. 1848; admiral of the fleet 8 Dec. 1857. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 June 1858.
OGLE, Charles Chaloner (4 son of John Ogle of St. Clare, near Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent). b. 16 April 1851; matric. at univ. of London June 1869; pupil of F. W. Roper the architect; an associate of the R.I.B.A. 1872; went to Athens Aug. 1875, where he worked in office of Her Ziller the royal architect; special correspondent of the Times in the war between Turkey and Montenegro 1878; wrote letters from Montenegro, the Herzegovina, Greece, Crete, and Thessaly; knight of the order of the Redeemer; was present at battle between Turkish troops and the insurgents occupying Mont Pelion and the town of Macrynitza 28 and 29 March 1878, slept at Katochori 29 and 30 March, found dead in a ravine 1 April. bur. the Piræus, Athens 10 April. Streit’s Mémoire concernant les détails du meutre de Charles Ogle (1878); Times 2, 10, 11, 25 April, 19 June 1878; Graphic xvii 401 (1878) portrait; I.L.N. 13 April 1878 pp. 329, 330 portrait.
OGLE, Sir Edmund, 6 baronet (3 son of rev. James Ogle, V. of Crondale, Hants 1778–1833). b. 20 Sept. 1816; 2 lieut. R.E. 9 June 1834, colonel 6 July 1867, col. commandant 11 Feb. 1883 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; succeeded his cousin as 6 baronet 2 Dec. 1885. d. Schallbach 14 June 1887.
OGLE, Harmon Chaloner (1 son of Nathaniel Ogle of Orpington, Kent). b. 1843; educ. Magdalen coll. Oxf., demy 1861–5, fellow 1865–87, usher 1866–7, tutor 1868–71, junior dean of arts 1868, bursar 1870, schoolmaster 1876–86; B.A. 1865, M.A. 1868; took the Ireland 1863, Craven 1866, Denyer and Johnson 1868, scholarships; warden Queen’s coll. Birmingham Aug. 1873 to 1874; master Worcester cathedral school 1874–6; R. of Tubney, Berks. 1886 to death; with Thomas Clayton published Select pieces for translation into Latin prose 1879; offered to go as a missionary in the archbishop’s mission to Assyria, was studying Assyrian preparatory to sailing in Aug. 1887. d. Queen’s hotel, Leeds 25 June 1887.
OGLE, James Adey (son of Richard Ogle, general practitioner). b. Great Russell st. London 22 Oct. 1792; educ Eton 1808–10; commoner Trin. coll. Oxf. 1810, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, M.B. 1817, M.D. 1820; studied at Edinb. univ., at St. George’s hospital, and at Windmill st. school of medicine London 1813, and in France, Italy, and Germany from 1814; physician at Oxford about 1819 to death; mathematical tutor of Trin. coll. 1820; F.R.C.P. 1 April 1822, Harveian orator 1844; physician to Radcliffe infirmary and to Warneford lunatic asylum Oxford 1824; Aldrich professor of medicine in univ. of Oxf. 1824–57, and clinical professor of medicine 1830–57; regius professor of physic 28 Oct. 1851 to death; obtained the institution of a public examination for the degree of M.D. 1835; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1826; pres. of provincial medical assoc. at Oxford meeting 1852; examiner in new school of natural science 1854–5; author of A letter to the warden of Wadham college, on the system of education pursued at Oxford 1841; Oratio in collegii Regalis medicorum Londinensis ædibus novis habita 1844. d. Old Shoreham vicarage, residence of his son-in-law James Bowling Mozley 25 Sept. 1857. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemet. Oxford. Munk’s College of physicians iii 245 (1878); Medical circular i 281 (1852) portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. ii 55 (1858).
OGLE, Octavius (4 son of James Adey Ogle 1792–1857). b. 1829; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1846–52; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Lincoln coll. 1852–9, tutor and claviger 1853, Greek lecturer 1855, librarian 1854, sub-rector 1855, moderator 1854; public examiner 1879–80, master of the schools 1863; clerk of the market; a representative of the university in Oxford city council; chaplain of Warneford asylum, Oxford 1864; edited Copy-book of sir A. Paulet’s letters 1866 for Roxburgh club; with W. H. Bliss Calendar of the Clarendon state papers 1872, vol. i; author of Idylls of Ilium 1887; wrote The Oxford market in Oxford Hist. Soc. Collectanea, 2 series 1890. d. 19 Park crescent, Oxford 27 June 1894. The Times 30 June 1894 p. 14.
OGLE, Thomas. b. 1794; entered R.N. 25 Jany. 1809; aide de camp to capt. lord Amelius Beauclerk in Walcheren expedition 1809; served in operations on coast of America 1812; captain 28 June 1838; while on the Southampton, 50 guns, forced the entrance into Port Natal, and by landing troops rescued a detachment surrounded by Africans 1842; admiral 10 Sept. 1869; knight of Brazilian order of the Southern cross. d. Beaumaris, North Wales 27 Dec. 1886. The Times 30 Dec. 1886 p. 5.
O’GORMAN, Daniel. Educ. Belfast college; author of Intuitive arithmetic, Newcastle, 3 ed. 1849, 26 ed. 1885; The prince of Wales’s new table book 1859; A chronological record, containing the remarkable events from the creation of the world to the present time, Manchester 1860, 3 ed. 1865. drowned in the “London” in the bay of Biscay on his voyage to Melbourne 11 Jany. 1866.
O’GORMAN, James Michael. b. co. Limerick 1809; a Trappist monk 1828; founded Trappist monastery of New Milleray, near Dubuque, Iowa, of which he became prior; vicar apostolic of Nebraska 1859 to death; consecrated bishop of Raphanea in partibus infidelium 8 May; established a hospital and asylum, and founded academies and Indian missions. d. Cincinnati, Ohio 4 July 1874.
O’GORMAN, Judge Richard. Concerned in Smith O’Brien’s rising in Ireland 1848; fled to United States. d. New York about 28 Feb. 1895.
O’GORMAN, Nicholas Purcell (only child of James O’Gorman of Ennis 1717–87). Called to Irish bar 1803; Q.C. 13 July 1835; chairman and assistant barrister, co. Kilkenny to death. d. Dublin 31 Dec. 1857.
O’GORMAN, Purcell (2 son of the preceding). b. 1820; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840; 2 lieut. Ceylon regiment 3 Feb. 1843; lieut. 90 foot 9 Dec. 1845, captain 2 April 1852, sold out 17 Aug. 1855; served in Crimean war 1854–5; M.P. Waterford 1874–80. d. Springfield, co. Kilkenny 24 Nov. 1888.
O’GRADY, Hayes (son of Darby O’Grady of Mount Prospect, Limerick). b. 1787; entered navy 4 Dec. 1802; present at reduction of Cape of Good Hope, and in the expedition to the Rio de la Plata; captain 7 June 1814; R.A. 1 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 15 Jany. 1862. d. Erinagh house, co. Clare 8 July 1864.
O’GRADY, Michael. b. Roscommon, Ireland 1821; resided in London; sent to Sydney, N.S.W. to establish a branch of the People’s provident soc. 1855; connected with an insurance office in Melbourne 1856; member for Villiers and Heytesbury in legislative assembly of Victoria from 1861; commissioner for public works 6 May to 11 July 1868, and from 19 June 1871 to 10 June 1872; created by the Pope a knight of St. Gregory 1871. d. Hawthorne, near Melbourne 1875.
O’GRADY, Michael Martin. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. 1818; M.R.I.A.; in practice at Malahide, co. Dublin; member of botanical committee of Royal Dublin soc.; invented an instrument for removal of uterine polypi. d. La Mancha, Malahide 1858.
OGSTON, Francis (3 son of Alexander Ogston an Aberdeen soap manufacturer). b. Aberdeen July 1803; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; graduated M.D. Edinb. univ. 1824; physician at Aberdeen; began to teach chemistry privately 1827; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Marischal coll. 1839, and professor of medical jurisprudence 1857–60; professor of medical jurisprudence univ. of Aberdeen 1860–83; police surgeon in Aberdeen from 1831; medical officer of health for the city 1862–81; dean of the faculty of medicine in Aberdeen; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1885; author of Lectures on medical jurisprudence 1878. d. 13 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sept. 1887. E. H. B. Rodgers’s Aberdeen Doctors (1893) 201, 301, 312.
O’HAGAN, Thomas O’Hagan, 1 Baron (only son of Edward O’Hagan of Belfast, merchant 1779–1836). b. Belfast 29 May 1812; educ. Belfast academical institution; student of King’s inns, Dublin Nov. 1831, and bencher 1859; student of Gray’s inn Jany 1834, and hon. bencher 21 Dec. 1883; pupil of Thomas Chitty, special pleader; called to Irish bar Jany. 1836, went north-east circuit; edited the Newry Examiner 1836–40; defended C. G. Duffy, one of the repeal leaders 1843–4; assistant barrister of co. Longford 1847–57, and of co. Dublin 1857; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; third serjeant-at-law 1859; solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1860 to 1861; attorney general Feb. 1861 to 1865; P.C. Ireland 1861; member of board of national education 1858; M.P. Tralee May 1863 to Jany. 1865; judge of Irish court of common pleas Jany. 1865 to Dec. 1868; lord chancellor of Ireland Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, the first Roman catholic chancellor since the reign of James II, lord chancellor again May 1880, resigned Nov. 1881; created baron O’Hagan of Tullahogue, co. Tyrone 14 June 1870; an original member of the intermediate education board 1878, the first vice-chairman; a senator of royal univ. of Ireland 1880, and vice-chancellor 1880 to death; K.P. 17 Jany. 1882; author of Occasional papers and addresses 1884; Selected speeches and arguments, ed. by George Teeling 1885. d. Hereford house, Park st. London 1 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, statue by Farrell in the Four courts, Dublin. O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 314–44 portrait; Pump court ii 126 (1884) portrait; I.L.N. xlvi 296 (1865) portrait, liv 385, 446 (1869) portrait; The Period 2 July 1870 p. 91 portrait; Illustrated Times 4 Feb. 1865 p. 68 portrait.
O’HAGAN, John (2 son of John Arthur O’Hagan of Newry, co. Down). b. Newry 19 March 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1865; called to Irish bar 1842, went Munster circuit; a leader of the Young Ireland party; comr. of board of national education 1861; chairman of quarter sessions at Westmeath 1864–70, at Leitrim 1870–2, and at Clare 1872–8; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of King’s inns 1878; third serjeant 31 May 1881; county court judge; judicial comr. under the Land law (Ireland) act of 1881, with rank of justice of high court of justice Sept. 1881 to death; contributed many poems to The Nation newspaper, which are collected in The spirit of the nation, Dublin 1874; author of A lecture on Chaucer in Afternoon lectures on literature and art 1863; The song of Roland 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson 1887; The children’s ballad rosary 1890; Joan of Arc 1893. d. Howth, Dublin 12 Nov. 1890. D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1893) 188; Irish Law Times xxiv 578–9 (1890); Academy ii 476 (1890).
O’HALLORAN, Henry Dunn. Ensign 69 foot 1 Nov. 1818, captain 1 Sept. 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Feb. 1853; major depôt battalion 2 March 1855; lieut. col. 1 West India foot 26 March 1858 to 16 March 1860, when he retired on full pay; M.G. 25 June 1866; author of Volunteer equipments in war 1861. d. Bath 30 Sept. 1871, aged 71.
O’HALLORAN, Thomas Shuldham (2 son of sir Joseph O’Halloran, G.C.B. 1763–1843). b. Berhampore, Bengal 25 Oct. 1797; educ. Marlow 1808, and at Sandhurst; ensign Royal West Middlesex militia 1809; ensign 17 foot 2 Feb. 1813, lieut. 1817–22; served during Nepaul war 1814–6, and Deccan war 1817–8; lieut. 44 foot 1822–7; captain 99 foot 27 April 1827; captain 56 foot 6 March 1828; captain 6 foot 19 Feb. 1829; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Saugor, Central India June 1830 to Jany. 1831, placed on h.p. Oct. 1834; captain 97 foot 27 April 1837, sold out 9 March 1838; suppressed the riots in Yorkshire 1837; settled near Adelaide, South Australia 1838; a justice of the peace 2 Feb. 1839; major commandant of South Australia militia 26 Feb. 1840; comr. of police 8 June 1840, resigned 12 April 1843; commanded expeditions against the natives 1840 and 1841; senior non-official member of the nominee council 1843–51; contested Noarlunga district 1851, and Sturt 1855; lieut. col. of the volunteer military force 1854; member of legislative council 1857, resigned 1863. d. Lizard lodge, O’Halloran Hill, near Adelaide 16 Aug. 1870.
O’HARA, Henry. Called to the Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The cotton plant and the countries adapted to its culture, Manchester 1862. d. 19 Nov. 1884.
O’HARA, Robert (only son of John O’Hara of Raheen, co. Galway). b. Dublin 1836; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; called to Irish bar 1860; parliamentary draftsman to Irish office in London several years; a member of statute law revision commission; author of a series of letters in The Times upon the Irish land question. d. Ostend 21 Sept. 1885. Law Times 7 Nov. 1885 p. 16.
O’HEA, James (3 son of John O’Hea of Greenfield, Clonakilty, co. Cork). b. 1809; educ. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1831; called to bar 1838; crown prosecutor for co. of Limerick 1860 to death, and for county and city of Cork 1849 to death; a follower of D. O’Connell. d. Harcourt st. Dublin 27 May 1882. Law Times 17 June 1882 p. 129.
O’HEA, Michael (son of James O’Hea of Woodfield, parish of Rosscarbery). b. Woodfield 12 Aug. 1808; studied at college of Picpus, Paris 3 years, at college of Larochefoucauld, and grand séminaire of Angoulême and Irish college, Paris; sub-deacon, deacon, and priest 1834; held curacies in Ireland 1835–50; parish priest of Rosscarbery 20 April 1850; vicar general of Ross 2 Feb. 1851; bishop of Ross 28 Sept. 1857 to death, consecrated in parish church of Skibbereen 7 Feb. 1858; visited Rome 1862, 1867 and 1869. d. Ross August 1877. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 113 (1876).
O’HEA, Miss, known as “Elena Norton.” Composed operetta of ‘The rose and the ring’; In a valley far away, ballad 1876; Gather ye rosebuds, song 1878. d. Southsea boarding house, West Cliff road, Bournemouth west, early in March 1880. Athenæum i 419 (1880).
OKE, George Colwell (son of Wm. Jane Oke d. Truro July 1859). b. St. Columb Major, Cornwall 8 Feb. 1821; accountant in a solicitor’s office; assistant clerk to Newmarket bench of justices 1848; assistant clerk at the Mansion House, London 1855–64, chief clerk 1864 to death; author of The synopsis of summary convictions 1848, 2 ed. under title of The Magisterial synopsis 1849, 14 ed. 1893; An improved system of solicitors’ book keeping 1849; The Magisterial formulist 1850, 7 ed. 1893; The laws of turnpike roads 1854, 2 ed. 1861; A handy book of the game and fishery laws 1861, 2 ed. 1863; The laws as to licensing inns 1872, 2 ed. 1874. d. Rosedale, St. Mary’s road, Peckham, Surrey 9 Jany. 1874. bur. Nunhead cemet. 15 Jany. Law Journal ix, 38 (1874); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 409, 1296 (1874–8); I.L.N. lxiv 80 (1874) portrait; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait.
O’KEEFE, Adelaide D. (only dau. of John O’Keefe, dramatist 1747–1833). b. Eustace st. Dublin 5 Nov. 1776; contributed 34 poems to Taylor’s Original poems for infant minds, by several young persons, 2 vols. 1804, her pieces are signed Adelaide; author of Original poems calculated to improve the mind of youth and to allure it to virtue, Part i 1808; National characters 1808; Patriarchal times, or the land of Canaan, 2 vols. 1811, 6 ed. 1842; Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a narrative founded on history, 2 vols. 1814; A trip to the coast, poems 1819; Dudley, 3 vols. 1819; Poems for young children 1849; The broken sword, a tale 1854; she was living at 3 Spring place hill, Southampton in April 1848. d. about 1855. Athenæum 5 Dec. 1874 p. 762; N. and Q. 7 May 1887 p. 361, 18 June p. 503.
O’KEEFE, Eugene. b. Cork; educ. St. Francis Xavier college, and at the Sulpitian college, Montreal; attached to the household of the bishop of Toronto until 1864; in charge of a parish in New Jersey; a great linguist and classical scholar. d. New York 22 Sept. 1880.
O’KEEFE, John (son of Patrick O’Keefe of Abbeyville). b. Waterford 1827; educ. Clongowes coll.; sheriff of Waterford 1865; M.P. Dungarvan 1874 to death; resided Mountain castle, Cappoquin. d. Stephen’s Green club, Dublin 10 June 1877.
O’KEEFE, Mathias. b. 1830; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1860; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; librarian Queen’s coll. Cork 1855–75; examiner in the Royal university; employed as an analyst in criminal cases; professor of materia medica at Queen’s coll. Cork and lecturer on medical jurisprudence 1875 to death. d. 17 St. Patrick’s hill, Cork 19 May 1884. Medical Times 24 May 1884 p. 719.
O’KEEFE, Robert. b. Callan, co. Kilkenny; chaplain to a convent in Kilkenny, removed by Dr. Walsh, bishop of Ossory 1849; priest at Rathdowney to 1863; parish priest of Callan 1863; attempted to establish a community of nuns from Beziers in France May 1869, but Dr. Walsh refused his sanction; tried to make the National school at Callan a school for higher education, named it the Callan academy, and sought to make French the normal language of the school; brought actions for libel against his bishop, suspended Oct. 1870; suspended from all ecclesiastical functions by cardinal Cullen, acting under authority from the Pope 13 Nov. 1871; brought an action against the cardinal in queen’s bench Ireland, obtained one farthing damages 27 May 1873; submitted to the Cardinal May 1876; author of Ultramontanism versus civil and religious liberty 1875. d. 2 Feb. 1881. The Callan case 1872; Cardinal Cullen and the P. P. Callan 1872; Court of queen’s bench, R. O’Keefe against cardinal Cullen 1874; Ultramontanism versus education, the case of Father O’Keefe 1875; The Dublin review July 1873 pp. 211–38; Irish reports Common law series vii 319–444 (1874).
O’KELLY, Joseph (2 son of Matthias Joseph O’Kelly, conchologist). b. Dublin 31 Oct. 1832; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860; employed on the geological survey of Ireland 1854; secretary to the survey Oct. 1865 to death; wrote many geological memoirs, published by the survey; M.R.I.A. 1866. d. 13 April 1883. Geological Mag. (1883) 288.
OKES, Richard (19 child of Thomas Verney Okes of Cambridge, surgeon). b. Cambridge 25 Dec. 1797; educ. Eton and King’s coll. Camb., scholar 1817, fellow 1820–6, Browne’s medallist 1819–21; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1848; master at Eton 1823–38, lower master 1838–50, member of the governing body; provost of King’s coll. Camb. Nov. 1850 to death, abandoned the old regulations and obtained for the college a high rank in the university; vice-chancellor 1851; gave with Dr. Hawtrey the heraldic window in the school museum at Eton; chairman of Cambridge water co. 1858–87; edited Musæ Etonenses, new series 1796–1833, 2 vols. 1859–69; author of Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata et in curia Cantabrigiensis recitata 1819, 1820 and 1820, 3 vols. d. The lodge, King’s coll. Cambridge 25 Nov. 1888. bur. King’s college chapel. Saturday Review lxvi 647–8 (1888).
OKEY, Charles Henry (son of Henry Okey). b. 7 April 1797; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1805 and at Heidelberg univ.; barrister I.T. 9 May 1823; private sec. to lord Stuart de Rothesay, when ambassador to France 1828–30; counsel to British embassy at Paris; police magistrate Antigua 1862, puisne justice and member of council Aug. 1863; knight of legion of honor; author of Droit d’ Aubaine de la Grande Britaine, Paris 1830, 2 ed. 1831; A concise digest of the law affecting the commercial and civil intercourse of the subjects of Great Britain and France, 2 ed. 1829, 6 ed. 1842. d. 1876.
OKEY, Elizabeth. b. 1824; she and her sister Jane, b. 1826, were cured of epileptic fits by Dr. John Elliotson by mesmerism; they were experimented on by Dr. Elliotson at his residence in Conduit st. Hanover sq. London 1842, before audiences, when he made them do many wonderful things in a mesmeric state; E. Okey was an inmate of University college hospitals under Dr. John Elliotson from April 1837; she developed a power of seeing spirits sitting on the beds of patients who were about to die, which had a baneful effect on all the patients; turned out of the the hospital 28 Dec. 1838. T. Wakley’s Undeniable facts concerning practices of Dr. Elliotson with E. & J. Okey (1842); The Lancet 5 Jany. 1839 pp. 561–2, 590–7.
OLD, John. b. Totnes 1829; studied under John and Edward Loder 1842, and at Royal academy of music under sir W. S. Bennett, and afterwards under Thalberg and Molique; conductor of Torquay choral soc. 1855–9; settled at Reading 1859, where he founded the Layston college of music, which had 200 pupils; composer of The seventh seal, a sacred drama 1853; The battle, a dramatic solo and chorus 1854; Herne, a legend of royal Windsor, an opera in 3 acts, libretto by E. Oxenford 1879, performed at Reading; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces of music 1849–79; he also contributed essays to The Monthly musical record. d. Reading 4 Feb. 1892.
OLDAKER, William Fitzhardinge (son of Tom Oldaker, huntsman). b. Woodbank, Gerrard’s Cross 1810; a saddler at Finsbury and Upper Brook street, London, his hunting saddles were in much request; a dealer in horses; rode in a steeplechase 1838; managed the stag hunting establishments of barons Lionel and Nathaniel Rothschild; ran a match with John Darby at Horncastle; retired and lived at Gerrard’s cross, Middlesex; resided at Newbold-on-Avon near Rugby 1865, where he hunted with all the neighbouring packs; retired to Woodbank, Chester 1880. d. Woodbank 6 Sept. 1884. W. Day’s Turf Celebrities (1891) 107–16; Baily’s Mag. xliii 121–2 (1885).
OLDFIELD, John (only son of John Nicholls Oldfield, lieutenant in royal marines, d. 1793). b. Portsmouth 29 May 1789; 2 lieut. R.E. 2 April 1806, captain 26 Jany. 1815, placed on h.p. April 1819; served at battle of Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; commanded the R.E. in Newfoundland Sept. 1830 to Oct. 1835, in Jersey Oct. 1835 to March 1839, and in Canada March 1839 to 1843, where he served during the rebellion; K.H. 23 July 1830; A.D.C. to the queen 9 Nov. 1841; colonel R.E. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 25 Oct. 1859 to death; commanded the R.E. in Ireland 1848–54; general 3 April 1862; contributed Memoranda on the use of asphalte to the Professional papers of the corps of the R.E., new series, vols. 3 and 5. d. Oldfield lawn, Emsworth, Sussex 2 Aug. 1863. bur. Westbourne.
OLDHAM, James. b. 17 Jany. 1817; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1865; in practice at 53 Norfolk square, Brighton 1842–80; a founder of the Brighton and Sussex medical chirurgical soc. 1847, president; purchased and supported a coffee tavern; chief supporter of St. Christopher’s home for sick children at Hayward’s Heath. d. Lucastes, Hayward’s Heath 26 Dec. 1881. Lancet i 40 (1882).
OLDHAM, James (son of a millwright). b. Hull 23 June 1801; at sea in the Baltic 1815–7; an apprentice to his father 1817; built a movable bridge for Hull corporation; reclaimed for the commissioners of woods and forests 700 acres in the estuary of the Humber 1850; government inspector of steamers for Hull; gave evidence before parliamentary committee on public works connected with Hull; wrote a paper on the Reclamation of land from seas and estuaries, for which he obtained Council premium of Institution of Civil engineers 1862; superintended tidal observations on the Humber, Trent and Ouse for British Association 1862–4; took George Bohn into partnership 1874, made the Hull and Barnsley railway and the Alexandra dock; M.I.C.E. 28 Jany. 1834. d. Hull 10 June 1890. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 377–80 (1891).
OLDHAM, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Oldham). b. Dublin 4 May 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin 1832, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846, LL.D. 1874; chief geological assistant in ordnance survey of Ireland 1839, surveyed counties of Kerry and Tyrone 1843; assistant professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, professor of geology 1845–51; president of Dublin geological society 1846; local director for Ireland of geological survey of the United Kingdom 1846; discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, co. Wicklow, the fossils or organic marks named after him Oldhamia 1849; superintendent of geological survey of India Nov. 1850, retired 1876; M.R.I.A. 1842; F.G.S. 1843; F.R.S. 9 June 1848, royal medallist 1875; member of royal Asiatic society of Bengal 1857, president four times; author of On the geological structure of part of the Khasi hills 1854; Memoirs of the geological survey of India, Palentologia Indica 1861; Memoranda on the result of an examination of the salt range in the Punjab 1864; Catalogue of the meteoric stones in the museum of the Geological survey of India 1865, 2 ed. 1868; Catalogue of the organic remains belonging to the echinodermata 1865; edited Records of the Geological survey of India 1868 etc. d. 18 Hillmorton’s road, Rugby 17 July 1878. Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv 46–8 (1879); Geological Mag. (1878) 382.
OLDHAM, Wilton. b. 1835; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A., LL.B. and LL.D. 1865; of Bengal civil service; magistrate at Ghazipore; C. of St. Michael, Louth 1878–80; C. of Stoke Bishop, Bristol 1880 to death; author of Historical and statistical memoir of Ghazipore 2 vols. 1870–6; Tenant right and auction sales in Ghazipore 1873. d. St. Servan, France 2 Oct. 1883.
OLDKNOW, Sir James (son of John Oldknow). b. Nottingham 1821; a lace manufacturer; alderman of Nottingham, mayor 1869, 1878, and 1879; after the visit of the prince and princess of Wales to open the Castle Art museum, knighted at Osborne 14 Aug. 1878. d. Villa road, Nottingham 4 Jany. 1888.
OLDKNOW, Joseph (son of Octavius Oldknow mayor of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 16 March 1809; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; D.D. of Hartford univ. U.S. of America 1857; V. of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, Birmingham 1841 to death; leader of high church party in Birmingham, established daily services and the observance of saints’ day 1841; he was libelled by marks put on the copper coins, such as ‘Oldknow is a papist and has pay from Rome,’ others were marked ‘No surplice,’ and such coins were at times thrown through the windows into the church during service time; the first in Birmingham to establish early weekly communion and harvest festivals; author of The catholic church, its nature, constitution and privileges 1839; A letter on the relations of the church of England to the church of Rome and the protestant bodies 1848; A month in Portugal 1855; The validity of the holy orders in the church of England 1857; Anti-ritual proceedings, a letter to the clergy of the rural deanery of Birmingham 1866; Sermons on various points of doctrine and practice 1868; and with A. D. Crake The priest’s book of private devotion 1872, 4 ed. 1891. d. Birmingham 3 Sept. 1874. bur. Holy Trinity churchyard. Guide to the church congress (1883) 54–5.
O’LEARY, Daniel Florence. Served in the war of Colombian independence, general of brigade; aide-de-camp to general Bolivar 1819–27; British consul at Puerto Cabello 11 Aug. 1841; chargé d’ affaires and consul general in New Granada 28 Nov. 1843 to death. d. 24 Feb. 1854.
O’LEARY, Ellen (dau. of a shopkeeper). b. Tipperary 1831; contributed verse to The Commercial journal, The Irishman, The Shamrock, and to the Irish People newspaper Nov. 1863 to 15 Sept. 1865, when the paper was seized by the government; assisted James Stephens, chief organiser of the Irish republic, in directing the affairs of the Fenian organisation; raised £200 on a mortgage of her property to help Stephens to escape from Ireland 1866; resided in Tipperary 1866–85, and with her brother John O’Leary in Dublin from 1885. d. Cork 16 Oct. 1889. Ellen O’Leary’s Lays of country, home and friends (1891) portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century (1893) 449–58; Irish Monthly xvii 83–94 (1889); Academy xl 70 (1891).
O’LEARY, William Hagerty (son of Thomas O’Leary of Charleston road, co. Dublin). b. 16 June 1839; educ. catholic univ. Ireland, gold medallist; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1861, F.R.C.S. Ireland 1871; professor of anatomy and physiology at Sedwick school of medicine 1872–4; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin to 1874; M.P. Drogheda 5 Feb. 1874 to death; wrote on Original researches on the sources of animal heat; New theory on the functions of iron in the blood; Food, its relation to animal heat and muscular motion; received a treasury grant to assist him in prosecuting investigations in scientific philosophy. d. 1 Cottage green, Camberwell, London 15 Feb. 1880.
OLIPHANT, Sir Anthony (3 son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Perth, d. 1807). b. Condie 1793; educ. Hyde Abbey school; advocate Edinburgh; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; attorney general, Cape of Good Hope 1826–38; chief justice of Ceylon 22 Oct. 1838, retired on a pension 1855; knighted by patent 7 Aug. 1839; C.B. 27 April 1848. d. London 9 March 1859. Gent. Mag. vi 429 (1859).
OLIPHANT, Francis Romano (younger son of the succeeding). b. Rome Oct.-Dec. 1859; educ. Eton, at Balliol coll. Oxf. and at New Inn hall; B.A. 1883; assistant to R. R. Holmes in the royal library at Windsor castle; contributed frequently to The Spectator and other periodicals; assisted his mother M. O. Oliphant in the preparation of her Victorian age of literature 1892; author of Notes of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land 1891. d. about 4 Oct. 1894. Times 5 Oct. 1894 p. 3, 13 Oct. p. 6.
Note.—His elder brother Cyril Francis Oliphant, b. 1856, educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1883, published in 1890 in the Foreign classics series A biography and criticism of the work of Alfred de Musset, he d. 1890.