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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OVERWEG, Adolf. b. Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. d. of fever near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. Notice of recent discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg. By J. Hogg 1852; Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 130 (1851), xxii 133 (1852), xxiii p. cx (1853), xxvi pp. clxi, clxii (1857); Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv 19–24 (1887).

OWDEN, Sir Thomas Scambler (youngest son of John Owden of Brighton). b. Cuckfield, Sussex 28 Oct. 1808; a merchant in City of London; common councilman for Bishopsgate ward 1845, alderman 12 May 1868 to death; sheriff of London 1870–1, lord mayor 1877–8; knighted at Windsor Castle 27 Nov. 1878; a member of the Innholders’ and Loriners’ companies; opened the new winter gardens at Blackpool, Lancs. 1878. d. Mulgrave house, Sutton, Surrey 9 Jany. 1889. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 139–47; Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait.

OWEN, Aneurin (only son of Wm. Owen, who took name of Pughe). b. 23 July 1792; studied the Chronicle of the Princes in the Red Book of Hergest at Jesus coll. Oxf. 1831; an assistant tithe comr. for England and Wales 1836; an assistant poor law comr.; a comr. for inclosure of commonable lands 1845; the adviser of the Record office upon all Welsh matters 1825 to death; won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod 1832 for the best Welsh essay on agriculture, the essay was published in the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, ed. by W. Jones 1839, pp. 153–201, and in a separate volume; edited Ancient chronicles of the princes of Wales as far as 1066, printed in Petrie and Sharpe’s Monumenta Historica Britannica (Record Commission 1848) pp. 841–55, reprinted and completed in Brut y Tywysogion, or The chronicle of the princes of Wales, ed. by J. Williams ab Ithel (Rolls Series 1860). d. Trosypare, near Denbigh 17 July 1851. Archæologia Cambrensis, 3 ed. series iv 208–12, 245–9 (1858), vi 184–6 (1860), vii 93–103, 169–71, 263–7 (1861), viii 289–90 (1862).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OWEN, John Blackman. In the service of Great Eastern railway from 1836, secretary 1850 to death. d. 17 Upper Hornsey Rise, London 31 July 1873. bur. Great Northern cemetery, Southgate 7 Aug.

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

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

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

OWEN, Sir Richard (younger son of Richard Owen, West India merchant 1754–1809). b. Brock st. Lancaster 20 July 1804; educ. Lancaster gr. sch. 1810–20; apprenticed to Leonard Dickson of Lancaster, surgeon 11 Aug. 1820; matric. at univ. of Edinb. Oct. 1824, where he founded with Gavin Milroy the Hunterian society; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825–6; M.R.C.S. 18 Aug. 1826; surgeon at 11 Cook’s court, Carey st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1826; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1829; assistant conservator to Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons 1827, joint conservator 1842, sole conservator 1849; started the Zoological Magazine Jany. 1833, sold it in July; F.R.S. 13 Dec. 1834, royal medallist 1846, Copley medallist 1851; Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at royal college of surgeons April 1836 to 1856; Wollaston gold medallist of Geological Society 1838; corresponding member of Institute of France 1839; helped to found Royal microscopical society 1839, president 1840–1; granted civil list pension of £200, 25 Nov. 1842; resided at Sheen lodge, Richmond park, lent to him by the queen 1852 to death; juror of Paris exhibition 1855, created a knight of the Legion of Honour; devised the exhibition of models of extinct animals at the Crystal palace 1855; superintendent of natural history department of British museum 26 May 1856 to 1883, with £800 a year; new Natural history museum at South Kensington opened 1881; Fullerian professor of physiology in the Royal institution 1859–61; president of British association at Leeds 1858; Rede lecturer at Cambridge 1859; awarded the prix Cuvier of the French academy 1857; went to Egypt 1869, 1871, 1872, and 1874; C.B. 3 June 1873, K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1884; granted another civil list pension of £100, 26 Feb. 1884; the first gold medallist of the Linnæan society 1888; author of Odontography, text and atlas, 2 vols. 1840–5; Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals 1843, 2 ed. 1855; A history of British fossil mammals and birds 1846; A history of British fossil reptiles, 4 vols. 1849–84; On the anatomy of vertebrates 3 vols. 1866–8; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. d. Sheen lodge, Richmond park 18 Dec. 1892. bur. Ham churchyard, portrait by Holman Hunt exhibited in Grosvenor gallery 1881. Rev. R. Owen’s Life of Richard Owen, 2 vols. (1884) 4 portraits; British medical journal 19 Dec. 1892 special supplement; Maguire’s Portraits of distinguished naturalists, Ipswich (1852) portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868) portrait; Nature xxii 577–79 (1892) portrait; Modern thought March 1883 pp. 97–101; The coward conscience by Charles Adams (1882) passim; Graphic xxviii 260 (1883) portrait; Vanity Fair 1 March 1873 p. 71 portrait; Daily Graphic 19 Dec. 1892 p. 8 portrait; Strand Mag. ii 274 (1891) 3 portraits.

OWEN, Robert (6 child of Robert Owen of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, saddler). b. Newtown 14 May 1771; employed by James Mc Guffog, draper, Stamford, Northants 1780–5; a machine maker at Manchester, then a yarn spinner; manager of Mr. Drinkwater’s spinning business, Manchester 1790–4; founded the Chorlton Twist company 1794–5; he and his partners purchased David Dale’s mills at New Lanark on the falls of the Clyde for £60,000, which he managed from about 1 Jany. 1800, in 1814 he and six others bought the business for £114,000; founded schools at his works for all children under twelve, claimed to be the founder of infant schools 1816; gave up the Lanark works 1823; at meeting at London tavern 14 Aug. 1817 declared that all the religions in the world were founded in error; contested the Lanark district of burghs 31 March 1820; retired from business 1819; started the Economist a paper explanatory of the new system of society, No. 1 27 Jany. 1821, No. 26 21 July 1821, succeeded by the Political economist 1823, and The advocate of the working classes 1827; bought the village of New Harmony in Illinois and Indiana with 20,000 acres for £30,000 April 1825, the scheme failed and he retired 1827; edited The Crisis, or the change from error and misery to truth and happiness, a penny paper, No. 1 14 April 1832, last issue No. 20, vol. iv 23 Aug. 1834; opened an Equitable labour exchange at The Bazaar in Gray’s Inn road, London 3 Sept. 1832, which was moved to Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. 1 May 1833, and ultimately became bankrupt; took part in the seven cooperative congresses 1830–4, and in the 14 socialist congresses 1835–46; published The new moral world 1834–41; presented to the queen by lord Normanby 5 Jany. 1840; published the Rational quarterly June 1853; author of A statement regarding the New Lanark establishment 1812; A new view of society, or essays on the principle of the formation of the human character 1813–4, 3 ed. 1817; The addresses of R. Owen 1830; The book of the new moral world containing the rational system of society 1836; The catechism of the new moral world 1840; An outline of the rational system of society 1840, 9 ed. 1871; Manifesto of R. Owen, the discoverer of the rational system of society 1840, 8 ed. 1841; The signs of the times or the approach of the millenium 1841; The future of the human race 1853; R Owen’s Journal, No. 1, Nov. 2 1850, No. 104 Oct. 23,1852, 4 volumes. d. Bear’s head hotel, Newtown, Montgomeryshire 17 Nov. 1858. The Life of R. Owen, written by himself 1857, vol. 1, no more published; C. Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living (1877) 3–6; J. Grants Portraits of public characters ii 163–91 (1841); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 307–15; Georgian Era iv 37–41 (1834); The Times 9 Aug. 1817 p. 4, with A view of the Agricultural and manufacturing village of Unity and Mutual Co-operation 8 Jany. 1840 p. 7, 11 Feb. p. 7, 26 March p. 4; S. J. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 275–8; Reynold’s Miscellany xviii 88 (1857) portrait; G.M. v 643–5 (1858).

OWEN, Robert Dale (eld. son of preceding). b. Glasgow 9 Nov. 1800; educ. at the Swiss college of Hofwyl, near Berne 1820–3; joined his father’s community at New Harmony 1825; became a citizen of U.S. of America 1827; published with Francis Wright at New York The free inquirer Nov. 1828 to 1832; member of the legislature of Indiana 1835, member of the house of representatives 1843; chairman of committee for promoting the Smithsonian institution 1846, one of the regents; United States chargé d’ affaires at Naples 1853, minister 1853–8; chairman of a committee to examine into condition of emancipated freedmen 1863; author of Moral physiology 1831, 12 ed. 1870; Darby and Susan, a tale of Old England 1840; Footfalls on the boundary of another world 1859; The wrong of slavery, the right of emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United States 1864; The debatable land between this world and the next 1872. d. at his summer residence on Lake George, New York 17 June 1877. R. D. Owen’s Threading my way (1874); Appleton’s American biography iv 615 (1888) portrait.

OWEN, Robert Henry. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; called to Irish bar 1839; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. d. 15 Lower Pembroke st. Dublin 8 Jany. 1869 aged 64.

OWEN, Samuel. b. Drayton, Shropshire 1774; introduced steam boats to Sweden. d. Stockholm 15 Feb. 1853. Historiskt Bildergalleri, No. iii, Samuel Owen (Norrkoping 1863) portrait.

OWEN, Samuel. b. about 1769; water-colour painter; exhibited 2 paintings and 6 drawings at the R.A. 1794–1807; member of the Associated artists in water-colours 1808, resigned 1810, exhibited 29 pictures; made 84 drawings, engraved by W. B. Cooke, for his work The Thames 1811, and 7 drawings for the Picturesque tour on the river Thames, published by Wm. Westall and himself 1828; his Shipping in a calm, and 9 other river and sea pieces are in South Kensington museum. d. Sunbury, Middlesex 8 Dec. 1857.

OWEN, Thomas Ellis (brother of Joseph Butterworth Owen 1778–1870). Architect at Portsmouth; surveyor for the South Hampshire district; helped to develop Southsea as a watering place; designed the French protestant church at St. Martin’s-le-Grand, London 1842–3, and the church of St. Jude’s, Southsea 1851. d. 1862.

OWEN, William (son of Luke Owen, maltster). b. Rotherham 1810; apprentice to Sandford and Yates, Phœnix foundry, Greasborough road, Rotherham 1823, a partner 1832, sole proprietor to March 1864, when the Wheathill foundry works were transferred to a limited liability co., chairman and managing director 1864–72; chairman of Midland wagon co.; a judge of machinery at Royal agricultural society’s meetings; A.I.C.E. 3 March 1857; member of Instit. of Mechanical engineers 1847; author of several inventions for making solid wrought-iron wheels and tires. d. Clifton house, Rotherham 20 Jany. 1881. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. lxiii 333 (1881); Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1882) 10.

OWEN, William Fitzwilliam (son of Wm. Owen, captain R.N., d. 1778). b. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1788; explored the Maldive Islands Sept. 1806, discovered the Sea-flower channel between Si-biru and Si-pora on the west coast of Sumatra; captain 2 May 1811; surveyed the Canadian Lakes 1815–6; captain of the Leven Aug. 1821, surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–5; settled the colony at Fernando Po 1827; R.A. on h.p. 21 Dec. 1847, V.A. on h.p. 27 Oct. 1854; granted a pension 6 Feb. 1855; author of Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, 2 vols. 1833. d. St. John’s, New Brunswick 3 Nov. 1857.

OWEN, William George. b. 5 May 1817; ensign 11 Madras N.I. 7 Aug. 1835, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col Madras infantry 30 April 1866, colonel 30 April 1878; M.G. 4 Aug. 1866; commanded the Ceded districts 1874–6; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. d. Folkestone 1 May 1895.

OWENS, John Edward (son of a shoemaker). b. Liverpool 4 May 1824; taken to Philadelphia 1834; first appeared on the stage at National theatre, Philadelphia, where he acted until 1843; played at Peak’s museum, Baltimore 1844–7; one of proprietors of Baltimore museum 1849–53; opened the Charles st. theatre with Uncle Tom’s cabin, playing Uncle Tom 1853; manager of the Varieties in New Orleans 1858–60; played with great success at the Broadway, New York 29 Aug. 1864 to 14 April 1865; played Solon Shingle at Adelphi theatre, London 3 July 1865; acted at Broadway theatre again 8 Jany. to 28 April 1866; played in California 1880, where he lost most of his fortune in mining speculations; acted in Esmeralda in many American cities 1882; owner of the Academy of music, Charleston, South Carolina to his death. d. near Towson, Baltimore county, Maryland 6 Dec. 1886. Atlantic xix 750 755–8 (1867); T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 270 portrait.

OXBERRY, William Henry (son of Wm. Oxberry, actor 1784–1824). b. Brownlow st. Bloomsbury, London 21 April 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school; with an artist; with an attorney; apprenticed to Septimus Wray, surgeon, Fleet st. to 1824; first appeared on the stage at the Olympic 17 March 1825 as Sam Swipes in The high road to marriage; served under Leigh Hunt in connection with The Examiner; played in the provinces 1826–32; acted at the Strand 1832, and at the Italian opera, Paris 1833; played four years at the English opera house 1833–7 where he was manager, then lessee in 1842 and lost everything; played the hero of A lost letter at Princess’s Jany. 1843; played in Bombastes Furioso at Strand Sept. 1843, and Wamba in The maid of Judah at Princess’s 1844; the original Mrs. Caudle in Mr. and Mrs. Caudle at Princess’s July 1845; managed the Windsor theatre for a time; edited Oxberry’s Weekly budget of plays, No. 1 20 March 1843, No. 78 30 Nov. 1844; Oxberry’s Budget of plays, 39 original dramas 1844; and Oxberry’s Dramatic chronology 1850; he wrote The actress of all work, a sketch produced at the Surrey theatre; Matteo Falcone or the brigand and his son, English opera house June 1836; Delusion or is she mad, a drama, Queen’s theatre 4 Feb. 1836; The Pacha’s pet, a farce, Victoria theatre Sept. 1838; The Idiot boy or the castle of Heidelberg, Victoria March 1839; Norma travestie, a burletta, Adelphi theatre 6 Dec. 1841; with J. Gann Mr. Midshipman Easy, a drama, Surrey theatre March 1837; with Madame Laurent The Truand chief, a melodrama, Victoria 9 Oct. 1837; m. (1) 11 Dec. 1834 Ellen M. Lancaster; m. (2) 11 Jany. 1844 Louise Blanche, dau. of a master shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, she was b. Portsmouth 28 April 1826, and was a dancer at the Lyceum and Strand theatres and in the provinces. d. on 28 February 1852. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 5 March. Dramatic and musical review 1842 p. 102 et seq.; Theatrical times 20 Feb. 1847 pp. 49–50 portrait, and iv 25–6 (1849) portrait of his second wife; Actors by gaslight (1838) 129–30 portrait; I.L.N. xx 194 (1852).

OXENDEN, Ashton (5 son of sir Henry Oxenden, 7 baronet 1756–1838). b. Broome park, Canterbury 20 Sept. 1808; educ. Ramsgate, Harrow and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1869; C. of Barham, Kent Dec. 1833, resigned 1838; R. of Pluckley with Pevington, Kent 1848–69; hon. canon of Canterbury 1864 to death; bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada (nine dioceses) May 1869, resigned April 1878, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 1 Aug. 1869, installed in Montreal cathedral 5 Sept.; V. of Hackington or St. Stephen’s, near Canterbury 30 May 1879 to 1884; dean of Canterbury 1879 to 1884; author of The cottage library, 6 vols. 1846–51; The pathway of safety 1856, circulated 350,000 copies; The Barham tracts, 49 numbers, collected and published as Cottage readings 1859; My first year in Canada 1871; The Christian life 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. d. Biarritz 22 Feb. 1892. A. Oxenden’s History of my life: an autobiography (1891); A. Oxenden’s Plain sermons (1893) memoir pp. xiii–lxxxv with portrait; Graphic 5 March 1892 p. 298 portrait.

OXENFORD, Henry. Last survivor of the official agents in H.M.’s Customs Long Room, Custom house, London. d. Putney 26 Nov. 1883, in his 100 year.

OXENFORD, John (son of William Oxenford of H.M. customs, d. London 30 Jany. 1867, aged 84). b. Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812; educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on commercial and financial matters; taught himself German, Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks, a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta, Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2 Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct. 1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10 March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864; Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama, Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of 40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography 1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe 1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853; F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of French songs 1851. d. 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. Life of E. L. Blanchard ii 465 (1891) portrait; Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp. 270–2; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi 553 (1877) portrait; Graphic xv 236 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 229 (1877) portrait; Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 78 portrait; The theatre i 55–57 and 68 (1877); You have heard of them by Q (1854) 121–27; E. Yates’s Recollections i 307–10 (1884); Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p. 5 portrait; Illust. Times 1 Dec. 1866 p. 340 portrait; The Period 11 Feb. 1871 p. 55 portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait.

OXENHAM, Henry Nutcombe (eld. son of Wm. Oxenham 1800–63, second master of Harrow school). b. Harrow 15 Nov. 1829; educ. Harrow and Balliol col. Oxf., classical scholar 27 Nov. 1846, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; president of the Union 1852; C. of Worminghall, Bucks. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Cripplegate, London 1857; entered the Church of Rome Nov. 1857; a member of the London oratory; took the minor orders as far as Ostiarus; a professor at St. Edmund’s college, Ware; a master at the Oratory school, Birmingham; author of The sentences of Kaires and other poems, Oxford 1854, 3 ed. entitled Poems 1871; The tractarian party and the Anglican church 1858; The Catholic doctrine of the atonement 1865, 2 ed. 1869; Catholic eschatology and universalism 1876; Short studies, ethical and religious, 2 vols. 1884–5; translated Döllinger’s First age of Christianity and the church, 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1877; and his Lectures on the reunion of the churches 1872; edited and translated the second volume of bishop C. J. Von Hefele’s A history of Christian councils 1876. d. 42 Addison road, Kensington, London 23 March 1888. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. church, Chislehurst 27 March. Tablet 31 March 1888 p. 534, 7 April pp. 571–2; Saturday Review lxv 380 (1888).

OXENHAM, William (2 son of William Oxenham, prebendary of Exeter 1771–1844). b. Paul, Mount’s bay, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1800; educ. Harrow 1813–19, and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; assistant master Harrow 1826–41, lower master 1841 to death; author of English notes for Latin elegiacs 1842, 4 ed. 1862; Death the christian’s gain 1861. d. Somers villa, Reigate 13 Oct. 1863. bur. Harrow ch. yard 20 Oct. G.M. xvi 660 (1863).

OXFORD, Edward (3 child of Mr. Oxford, the best gold chaser in Birmingham, who d. 10 June 1829, his widow kept a coffee shop in the Borough road, London). b. Birmingham 19 April 1822; discharged two pistols at queen Victoria and prince Albert as they were driving up Constitution hill, London in an open phaeton 10 June 1840, tried at the Old Bailey 10 July 1840, found to be insane, sent first to Bethlehem hospital, and then to Broadmoor, Surrey; released from Broadmoor Nov. 1867, but not permitted to live in the United Kingdom. Reports of state trials iv 498–555 (1892); W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 102–50 (1850); L. Benson’s Book of remarkable trials (1871) 528–45; A. Griffith’s Newgate ii 285–9 (1884); The Reginacide (1840).

OXFORD, Jacob. b. 1834; only 4 feet high; played the concertina outside National gallery, London every evening for 28 years, 1854 to death; he is the subject of a poem of 100 lines entitled In Trafalgar Square, see Songs of the world in The works of Lewis Morris (1890) pp. 16–18. d. Morpeth court, Waterloo road, London 7 Nov. 1882.

OXLEE, John (son of a farmer). b. Guisborough in Cleveland, Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tunbridge gr. sch. 1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stonegrave 1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Molesworth, Hunts. 8 July 1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60 more than cardinal Mezzofanti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin review, Valpy’s Classical Journal, the Christian remembrancer, and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. d. Molesworth rectory 30 Jany. 1854. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1882) 55–6 portrait; Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography (1839) 183, 184; Church review 22 March 1862 pp. 175–6; G.M. April 1854 p. 437, and Feb. 1855 pp. 203–4; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 105–11.

OXLEY, Richard. b. Chertsey, Surrey 1803; successor of Charles Knight in the possession and control of the Windsor and Eton Express; official printer of the Windsor race cards, employed pigeons to convey the daily Ascot scratchings for the race cards; printer of the cards for the fashionable yearly meetings at Hawthorn hill; printer to the queen and royal family at Windsor; the oldest follower of the queen’s stag hounds; printed Oxley’s Windsor guide to the castle and Eton college 1889. d. 13 Selborne road, Brighton 9 Aug. 1893.

OXTOBY, Thomas. Served with lord Henry Bentinck; second whip to Tom Day at Quorn; first whip to Ben Bontheroyd; kennel huntsman to capt. Percy Williams at Rufford many years; whipper-in to Mr. Hodgson in the Holderness country to 1853; huntsman of Fife fox hounds 1853–9. Babington’s Records of the Fife fox hounds (1883) 92 portrait.

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PACIFICO, David. b. Gibraltar 1784; in business at Lagos, Portugal 1812, subsequently resided at Mertola, where his property was confiscated by Don Miguel; Portuguese consul in Morocco 28 Feb. 1835; Portuguese consul-general in Greece 5 Jany. 1837, dismissed from the service 21 Jany. 1842; a merchant at Athens, where his house was burnt down by the mob Easter, 4 April 1847, claimed £26,618 from the Greek government, who delaying to make compensation, lord Palmerston sent the British fleet to the Piræus 18 Jany. 1850, French and English comrs. endeavoured to arrange terms at Athens, but the attempt resulted in a quarrel, and the French ambassador left London 15 May 1850; Pacifico eventually received 120,000 drachmas for the plunder of his house, and £500 for his personal sufferings; settled in London and d. 15 Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 12 April 1854. bur. Spanish burial-ground, Mile End 14 April. Correspondence respecting the demands made upon the Greek government, in Parliamentary papers 1850 and 1851; Hansard’s Debates 25 June 1850, cols. 380–444; Ashley’s Life of lord Palmerston i 176–227 (1876); Finlay’s History of Greece vii 209–14 (1877); Gordon’s Thirty years of foreign policy (1855) 412–25; McCarthy’s History of our own time ii 41–62 (1879); G.M. June 1854 p. 666.

PACKE, Charles William (1 son of Charles James Packe of Prestwold hall, near Loughborough). b. 23 Sept. 1792; M.P. South Leicestershire 1836 to death; chairman of Leicestershire quarter sessions to death. d. 7 Richmond terrace, Whitehall, London 27 Oct. 1867.

PACKE, George Hussey (brother of preceding). b. 1 May 1796; educ. Eton; cornet 13 dragoons 24 June 1813; captain 21 light dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817, sold out 1861; sheriff of Lincs. 1843; chairman of Sleaford quarter sessions; deputy chairman of Great northern railway company 1851, chairman 1865 to death; contested Newark 31 July 1847; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1859–68. d. 41 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1874.

PACKER, Sir Charles (3 son of John Culling Packer of Barbados). b. Barbados 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; solicitor general of Barbados 12 March 1847 to 1874; escheator general 1859; vice-chancellor, judge of the admiralty court, and chief justice 30 Oct. 1874 to 1886; member of general assembly 1846–67, speaker 1861–7; member of legislative council 1868–76; knighted by patent 29 Oct. 1879. d. Ruttal house, Barbados 21 Feb. 1888. Law Times lxxxiv 396 (1888), lxxxvi 265 (1889).

PACKER, John Graham. b. 1812; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, London 1837–41; V. of St. Peter, Bethnal Green 1841–73; R. of Wootton, Kent 1873–9; V. of Arreton, Isle of Wight 1879 to death; author of Companion to Euclid 1835; Plain sermons 1838; Bethnal Green sermons, sermons on the Lord’s prayer 1848; Theopolis 1850; Sermons on death 1856. d. St. Audries, Bridgwater, Somerset 1 Aug. 1883. Guardian 8 Aug. 1883 pp. 1168, 1169.

PADDOCK, Thomas. b. Redditch, Worcs. 1824; beat Elijah Parsons in 23 rounds 3 Dec. 1844; beat Nobby Clarke in 42 rounds 27 Jany. 1846, and again in 35 rounds 6 April 1847; beaten by Wm. Thompson, the champion known as Bendigo, at Mildenhall 5 June 1850, £200 a side, 49 rounds in 59 minutes; beaten by Wm. Perry at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes; beaten by Harry Paulson at Sedgebrook, near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851, £25 a side, 71 rounds in 95 minutes; beat Paulson at Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, £50 a side, 86 rounds in 95 minutes, sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment with hard labour for this fight March 1852; beat Paulson at Mildenhall 14 Feb. 1854, £100 a side, 102 rounds in 2½ hours; beat Aaron Jones at Long Reach, Kent 18 July 1854, £100 a side, 121 rounds in 2 hours and 24 minutes; beat Aaron Jones again at Mildenhall 26 June 1855, £100 a side, 61 rounds in 89 minutes; beat Harry Broome at Bentley, Suffolk 19 May 1856, £200 a side, 51 rounds in 63 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers, the champion, at Canvey island 16 June 1858, £150 a side, 21 rounds in 80 minutes; fought Samuel Hurst for £200 a side, near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860, when Hurst won in five rounds and obtained the champion belt. d. 41 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 30 June 1863. bur. Finchley 5 July, his widow d. 9 July 1863. Bell’s Life in London 5 July 1863 p. 6, 12 July p. 7; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 271–307 (1881) portrait; F. W. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 130–9, 168–81; J. Hannan’s British Boxing (1850) 15–26.

PADMORE, Richard (1 son of Thomas Padmore of Ketley, Salop). b. Ketley 28 Sept. 1789; educ. Wellington school; came to Worcester as a working man, became member of firm of Hardy and Padmore, iron founders, retired some years before his death; sheriff of Worcestershire 1845; alderman of Worcester 1838, mayor 1848 and 1852, retired from the corporation 1874; M.P. Worcester 1860–8; managing director of Worcester City and County banking co.; gave £5,000 to the Royal Albert asylum, Worcester. d. Henwick hall, near Worcester 12 Jany. 1881. bur. Worcester cemetery 19 Jany. Berrow’s Worcestershire Journal 15 Jany. 1881 p. 5, 22 Jany. p. 5.

PADWICK, Henry (2 son of William Padwick, butcher, d. 1834). b. Horsham, Sussex 1805; a solicitor at 38 Davis st. Berkeley sq. London 1846, retired 1855; resided at 2 Hill st. 1855–68, at 4 Hill st. 1868 to death; commenced horse racing 1849 under the name of Howard; his horses were trained at Danebury, then transferred to Findon under John Barnham Day 1853; with Virago won the 1,000 guineas 1854; sold Kangaroo to the marquess of Hastings for £12,000 in 1865, and Oulston to Mr. Elwes for £8,000; won £80,000 on Virago, and lost the money the same year on the stock exchange 1854; J.P. for London and Westminster; deputy lieutenant for Sussex; deputy keeper of Holyrood palace, Scotland; a well known money lender. d. 4 Hill st Berkeley sq. London 23 Sept. 1879. J. Rice’s History of British Turf i 371–80 (1879); W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 1–34; Times 25 Sept. 1879 p. 9.

PAE, David (son of a miller). b. Amulree, Perthshire 6 May 1828; was with Thomas Grant, publisher, Edinburgh 1848; wrote stories for the Penny Post and the North Briton, Edinb.; editor of The Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Numbers 1851–2; edited for some years the People’s Journal, Dundee, a weekly paper; wrote 27 works of fiction, printed in instalments in the Journal from 5 Sept. 1863 to his death; wrote the dramatic criticisms for the Evening Telegraph, Dundee, from 1877; wrote Mrs. Macgregor’s Levee for W. C. Gourlay, the Comedian, and other dramas; author of The coming struggle among the nations of the earth 1853, 2 ed. 1854, five replies were made to this work; The coming rest for the nations of the earth 1853; The mission and destiny of Russia as delineated in scripture prophecy 1853; Jessie Melville or the double sacrifice 1856; The merchant’s daughter 1857; Fraud and friendship 1857; Two years after and onward, or the approaching war among the powers of Europe 1864; The present war among the powers of Europe 1866; Hard times, or the trials of the Linwood family, 2 ed. 1886. d. Craigmount, East Newport, Fife 9 May 1884. bur. Western cemet. Dundee 13 May. Dundee Advertiser 10 May 1884 p. 5, 12 May p. 5, 14 May p. 3.

PAGAN, James (son of James Pagan, a bleacher). b. Trailflat, parish of Tinwald, near Dumfries 18 Oct. 1811; educ. Dumfries academy; a compositor and reporter on the Dumfries Courier; partner in a printing firm in London; reporter and sub-editor of the Glasgow Herald 1839, and editor 1856 to death, he converted it into a daily paper 1857; the correspondent of The Times in Glasgow 1857 to death; edited The prospective observer, a broadsheet; author of Sketches of the history of Glasgow 1847; History of the cathedral and see of Glasgow 1851, 2 ed. 1883; Glasgow, past and present, illustrated in dean of guild reports, 3 vols. 1851–6, another ed. 1884; Old Glasgow and its environs 1864; with J. H. Stoddart Relics of ancient architecture in Glasgow 1885. d. Glasgow 11 Feb. 1870. In memoriam, Mr. James Pagan (1870); Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 255–60 (1886) portrait; Newspaper Press iii 82, 106 (1870).

PAGAN, John. b. Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire 21 May 1842; assistant surveyor to corporation of Preston 1867–9, and to corporation of Bradford 1869–72; deputy borough surveyor Sheffield 1872–5; borough surveyor Wakefield 1875–9, where he executed the main sewerage extension; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1875; surveyor general to the Gold Coast, May 1879 to death. d. Accra 13 Dec. 1888. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvi 348–9 (1889).

PAGAN, John M. (only son of Andrew Pagan, sheep farmer). b. Halglenmuir, parish of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Jany. 1802; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827, hon. librarian some years; in practice at Preston, Lancs. 1825, removed to Glasgow 1827; had a class for forensic medicine 1839; regius professor of midwifery and the diseases of women and children, univ. of Glasgow 1840 to death; president Glasgow Medico-chirurgical soc. 1860; invented an obstetric forceps known by his name; author of De syncope anginosa 1823; The medical jurisprudence of insanity 1840. d. Blythswood sq. Glasgow 19 May 1868. Glasgow Medical journal i 129–31 (1869).

PAGANI, Giovanni Battista. b. Borgomanero province of Novara, North Italy 14 May 1806; a priest 1828; prefect in theological seminary, Novara 1829; professor of dogmatic theology and canon law; spiritual director of the young ecclesiastics 1831–6; served his noviciate at San Michele della Chiusa, near Turin, in connection with the Institute of Charity 1836–7; joined Fr. Gentili at Prior park, Bath, July 1837, where he was professor of theology to 1841; superior of the English province of the Institute of Charity, established 8 houses with 80 brethren; elected general of the order of the Institute of Charity at Rome 24 July 1855, visited England every year; translated Liguori’s Instructions on the religious state 1848; L’ Anima amante or the soul loving God 1848; Leonardo’s The path to Paradise 1850; author of The Anima Divota, translated by the rev. J. Shepherd, Prior Park 1844; The way to heaven, a manual of devotion 1849; The life of the rev. A. Gentili 1851; The one thing needful, or the attainment of our last end 1852; A help to devotion, a collection of novenas 1853, new ed. 1892; The science of the saints in practice 1853–5, 3 vols.; The end of the world 1855. d. Rome 25–26 Dec. 1860. G. B. Pagani’s The Anima Divota (1891) memoir pp. 7–12; G.M. x 230 (1861).

PAGE, Augustine. b. 1783; master of Boys’ hospital, Ampton 6 March 1821 to death; author of Memoranda concerning the Boys’ hospital at Ampton in Suffolk, Ipswich 1838; A supplement to the Suffolk traveller 1843, another copy is dated 1844. d. Bury St. Edmunds 18 Sept. 1853.

PAGE, David (son of a mason and builder). b. Lochgelly, Fifeshire 24 Aug. 1814; educ. univ. of St. Andrew’s 1828–34; lecturer and editor of a Fifeshire newspaper; scientific editor to W. and R. Chambers in Edinburgh 1843–51; professor of geology in Durham univ. college of physical science at Newcastle July 1871 to death; F.G.S. 1853; president of Geological society of Edinb. 1863 and 1865; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1867; author of Introductory text book of geology 1854, 12 ed. 1888; Advanced text book of geology, descriptive and industrial, Edinb. 1856, 5 ed. 1872; Handbook of geological terms and geology 1859, 2 ed. 1865; Introductory text book of physical geography 1863, 12 ed. 1887; The earth’s crust 1864, 6 ed. 1872; Geology for general readers 1866, 12 ed. 1888; and 13 other books. d. Newcastle 9 March 1879, his widow was granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Aug. 1890.

PAGE, James Augustus. b. 1821; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; vice-chancellor’s prize 1844, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1865; C. of Lymm, Cheshire 1845–6, and V. of Tintwistle 1846–73; lecturer at Rusholme, near Manchester 1873 to death; author of Gathered leaves 1843; The ruined cities of Central America 1844; My church 1845; Protestant ballads 1852. d. Anson terrace, Rusholme 25 March 1880.

PAGE, Thomas (eld. son of Robert Page of City of London, solicitor). b. London 26 Oct. 1803; employed by Edward Blore, the architect; A.I.C.E. 2 April 1833, M.I.C.E. 18 April 1837; one of the assistant engineers on the Thames tunnel works 1835, acting engineer 1836 until completion of tunnel 25 March 1843; designed the embankment of the Thames from Westminster to Blackfriars 1842, but the scheme was abandoned; prepared plans for harbours at Holyhead and Port Denllaen, also for docks at Swansea; designed and executed the Albert embankment between Vauxhall and Battersea bridges, and the Chelsea suspension bridge, opened 28 March 1858, the Albert embankment was opened 24 Nov. 1869; designed Westminster bridge, commenced May 1854, opened 24 May 1862; engineer for the town of Wisbeach; invented a system for firing guns under water; author of Report on the eligibility of Milford Haven for ocean steam ships, and for a naval arsenal 1859. d. Paris 8 Jany. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix 262–5 (1877).

PAGE, William Emmanuel (2 son of rev. Wm. Page of Westminster). b. 9 April 1808; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1826, faculty student 1826–56; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.M. 1834, D.M. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838, treasurer; lecturer on theory and practice of medicine St. George’s hospital, senior physician at his decease; author of Oratio ex Harveii instituto in ædibus collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis habita 1860; An introductory address delivered at St. George’s hospital 1864. d. 106 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 2 Jany. 1868. Medical Times and Gazette i 49 (1868).

PAGET, Alfred Henry (5 son of 1 Marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). b. 29 June 1816; educ. Westminster; cornet royal horse guards 6 July 1832, lieut. 14 March 1834; captain 7 hussars 3 July 1841, placed on h.p. with rank of major 16 May 1845; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; chief equerry and clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to March 1852, Dec. 1852 to March 1858, and June 1859 to Aug. 1874; clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to death; his boat the Mystery 25 tons was the first iron yacht built; M.P. Lichfield 1837–65; m. 8 April 1847 Cecilia, 2 dau. of George Thomas Wyndham, she was one of the Court beauties in 1858; he d. on board his yacht Violet at Inverness 24 Aug. 1888. bur. Hampton churchyard 30 Aug. H. Vizetelly’s Glances back through seventy years ii 6 (1893); Yachting (Badmington Library 1894) ii 15, 185–6.

PAGET, Charles (elder son of Joseph Paget). b. Loughborough, Leics. 1799; a manufacturer at Nottingham; sheriff of Notts. 1844; a practical and scientific farmer; established schools for his labourers’ children at Ruddington, near Nottingham; M.P. Nottingham 1856–65; contested Nottingham 11 July 1865; author of Results of an experiment on the half-time system of education in rural districts, as carried on at Ruddington 1859; drowned with his wife off Filey Brigg, Yorkshire 13 Oct. 1873. Scarborough Mercury 18 Oct. 1873 p. 4, 25 Oct. p. 2.