place, Walworth, London 1833, subsequently manufacturer of
emery, black lead, emery and glass cloths, glass, emery and
flint papers, the Wellington knife polish and knife boards, and
other specialties for household use; erected the Wellington
mills, Westminster bridge road 1874, where he carried on
business to his death, with his son Herbert Oakey as J. Oakey
and sons; gained prize medals at Philadelphia 1876, Boston 1883,
and the Crystal palace 1884. _d._ St. John’s, Victoria road,
Surbiton 10 Jany. 1887.
OAKLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of
Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) _b._ Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ.
Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850;
scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A.
1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery
in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to
Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden,
London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its
history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince
Albert Victor 1864. _d._ Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. _G.M.
xix_ 526, 651 (1865); _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._ 7, _25 Sept. p._
12.
OAKLEY, HERBERT WILLIAM. _b._ Taunton Jany. 1848; assistant
to Boyd-Dawkins, professor of natural history in Owen’s
college, Manchester 1870–7; in the Cape mounted police 1877–9;
distinguished himself in the Moirosi campaign; assistant
curator of colonial museum, Cape Town Sept. 1879 to death; with
W. B. Dawkins, F.R.S. he wrote the sections on proboscidea,
hyracoidea, and ungulata in P. M. Duncan’s Cassell’s Natural
history, vol. ii, 273 et seq. (1878). _d._ Cape Town 14 Nov.
1884.
OAKLEY, JOHN (son of John Oakley of Blackheath, Kent, land
agent). _b._ Frindsbury near Rochester 28 Oct. 1834; educ.
Rochester cathedral school and at Hereford gram. sch.; scholar
of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1852; president of the Oxford Union
1856; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1881; C. of St. Luke’s, Berwick
st. London 1858–9; C. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1859–67;
secretary to London diocesan board of education 1864–8; V. of
St. Saviour’s, Hoxton 1867–81; declined bishopric of Nelson,
New Zealand 1865; dean of Carlisle 23 Nov. 1881, installed 6
Jany. 1882; dean of Manchester Nov. 1883 to death; wrote in the
Manchester Guardian under name of Vicesimus a memoir of Henry
Nutcombe Oxenham and a series of papers on Dean Burgon’s Lives
of twelve good men 1888–9; author of The Christian aspect and
application of the decalogue 1865; The conscience clause, its
history 1866. _d._ Deganwy, near Llandudno 10 June 1891. _bur._
Chiselhurst, stained glass memorial window erected in south
aisle of Manchester cathedral. _Health Journal (Manchester)
June 1887 pp._ 11–13 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 21 June 1890 p._ 774
_portrait_; _Pictorial World 21 June 1890 p._ 788 _portrait_.
OAKLEY, OCTAVIUS. _b._ Bermondsey, London 27 April 1800; placed
with a cloth manufacturer near Leeds; a portrait painter at
Derby about 1825, removed to Leamington 1836; came to London
about 1841; associate of Society of painters in water-colours
1842, member 1844, exhibited 210 landscapes and groups of
gipsies, which gained him the sobriquet of Gipsy Oakley;
exhibited 30 water-colour portraits at the R.A. 1826–60; there
was a sale of his works at Christie’s March 1869. _d._ 7
Chepstow villas, Bayswater, London 1 March 1867. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii_
268–71 (1891).
OAKLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1818; governor of Somerset county gaol,
Taunton 1850 to death; author of Observations on constabulary
and police 1853; Observations on the grand jury system 1853.
_d._ the gaol, Upper High st. Taunton 6 March 1880.
OASTLER, RICHARD (youngest child of Robert Oastler of Leeds,
steward of the Fixby estates, Huddersfield, _d._ July 1820).
_b._ St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 20 Dec. 1789; educ. the Moravian
school at Fulneck; articled to Charles Watson, architect at
Wakefield, 4 years; a commission agent, failed 1820; steward
to Thomas Thornhill at Fixby hall 5 Jany. 1821, discharged for
opposing the poor-law comrs. 28 May 1838; began his attempt to
reform the factories by a letter to the Leeds Mercury entitled
‘Yorkshire Slavery’ 29 Sept. 1830; became known as ‘The factory
king’; published letters on the ten-hours day and similar
subjects in some of the unstamped periodicals; confined more
than three years in the Fleet prison, from 9 Dec. 1840, for
a debt of £2,000; published The Fleet Papers, being letters
to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, of Riddlesworth, from Richard
Oastler his prisoner in the Fleet 1841; an Oastler liberation
fund was started 1842, released from prison Feb. 1844; made a
public entry into Huddersfield 20 Feb. 1844; agitated for a ten
hours’ day 1844–7; edited The Home, weekly paper 3 May 1851 to
June 1855; edited with rev. J. R. Stephens a weekly journal
entitled the Ashton Chronicle; lived at South Hill cottage,
Guildford 1845 to death; author of Vicarial tithes, Halifax
1827; The Huddersfield dissenter stark staring mad, because the
mask has fallen 1835; The devil-to-do amongst the dissenters
in Huddersfield 1835; Slavery in Yorkshire 1835; More work for
the Leeds new thief catchers 1836; Damnation, eternal damnation
to the fiend begotten coarser food new poor law 1837; Brougham
versus Brougham on the new poor law 1847; Factory legislation
1855. _d._ Harrogate 22 Aug. 1861. _bur._ Kirkstall churchyard,
bronze statue by J. B. Philip at Bradford, unveiled 15 May 1869.
_Sketch of the life and opinions of R. Oastler_, Leeds (1838)
_portrait_; _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 499–503,
671; _Spence’s Eminent men of Leeds pp._ 53–9 _with portrait_;
_R. Oastler’s Fleet papers_, _vol._ 1, _number_ 12 _portrait_;
_Illust. news of the world viii_ 245 (1861) _portrait_; _I.L.N.
iv_ 156 (1844) _portrait_.
OATES, FRANCIS (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside,
Yorkshire). _b._ Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch.
Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America
1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from
Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873
and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river;
started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi
31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. _d._
of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the
Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. _Matabele land and the Victoria falls,
a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F.
Oates_, _ed. by C. J. Oates_ 1881, _2 ed._ (1889) _memoir pp.
xix–xlii and portrait_; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv_, _p.
clii_ (1875).
OATES, JAMES POOLE. _b._ 1768; ensign 88 foot 3 March 1797,
captain 19 Oct. 1804, placed on h.p. 26 March 1818; served in
the West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, and South America; present
at almost every siege and battle in the Peninsular war; received
the gold medal for Egypt and the silver war medal with ten
clasps; lieut. col. in the army 22 July 1830; K.H. 1837. _d._ 6
Linden grove, Notting hill, London 4 April 1863.
OATES, WILLIAM WILFRID. _b._ 1828; publisher of Roman catholic
books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st.
Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and
Oates to death. _d._ 28 Dec. 1876.
O’BRIEN, BARTHOLOMEW (son of Bartholomew O’Brien of Harbledown,
Canterbury). _b._ 18 June 1818; ensign 2 West India regiment 15
April 1836, lieut. 1838–40; lieut. 77 foot 23 July 1841, major
20 April 1855; major 87 foot 17 Aug. 1855; lieut. col. 26 Oct.
1858 to 15 Nov. 1859; lieut. col. military train 15 Nov. 1859,
placed on h.p. 12 Sept. 1870; served in Crimean war and Indian
mutiny and in New Zealand 1863–7; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. 1 Oct.
1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881.
_d._ 1 Addison road, Bedford park, Chiswick, Middlesex 8 March
1885.
O’BRIEN, CORNELIUS (son of Henry O’Brien of Birckfield, co.
Clare). _b._ Birckfield 1782; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; admitted
attorney 1811; M.P. Clare 1832–52, and 1852–7. _d._ about 1857.
O’BRIEN, DOMINIC. _b._ Waterford 5 July 1798; studied theology
at the Propaganda college, Rome; D.D.; ordained priest at Rome
1821; chaplain to the Ursuline convent, Waterford; president
of St. John’s college, Waterford; one of the secretaries to
the synod of Thurles 1850; parish priest of St. Patrick’s,
Waterford; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 July 1855
to death, consecrated 30 Sept. 1855. _d._ at the Episcopal
residence, George st. Waterford 12 June 1873. _bur._ in St.
John’s cath. _Munster Express 14 June 1873 p._ 4; _Brady’s
Episcopal succession ii_ 76 (1876).
O’BRIEN, DONAT HENCHY (2 son of Michael O’Brien of Ennistimon,
co. Clare). _b._ Ireland 5 Nov. 1784; entered navy 16 Dec.
1796; master’s mate of the Hussar frigate, when she was wrecked
on the Saints (Ile de Sein) 8 Feb. 1804; a prisoner of war at
Verdun 1804, escaped Nov. 1808; lieut. of the Warrior 29 March
1809, assisted at the reduction of Ionian Islands; lieut. of the
Amphion March 1810, served in action off Lissa 13 March 1811;
commanded the Slaney on the South American station 1818–21;
captain 5 March 1821; R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; author of The
narrative of captain O’Brien, containing an account of his
shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France 1814; My adventures
during the late war, comprising a narrative of shipwreck,
captivity, escapes from French prisons, &c. from 1804–27, 2
vols. 1839 portrait. _d._ Yew house, Hoddesdon 13 May 1857,
memorial window in Broxbourne church.
O’BRIEN, FITZ JAMES (son of an attorney-at-law). _b._ Limerick
1828; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; went to London and spent his
fortune of £8,000; edited a periodical in aid of the World’s
fair 1851; went to U.S. of America about 1852, where he wrote
in the Lantern, Home journal, Evening Post, New York times,
American Whig review, and the Atlantic monthly; contributed more
than 66 articles to Harper’s Mag. from Feb. 1853; author of The
Diamond lens and other stories 1881; What was it 1889; wrote
A gentleman from Ireland and other pieces for the theatres;
the most able of the brilliant set of Bohemians in New York;
joined the 7th regiment of New York national guard 1861. _d._
Cumberland, Virginia 6 April 1862, having been wounded in a
skirmish 26 Feb. _bur._ Greenwood cemetery. _The Diamond Lens_
(1887) _memoir pp. vii–xx_; _Appleton’s American Biography iv_
549 (1888) _portrait_.
O’BRIEN, JAMES (2 son of Daniel O’Brien of Granard, co.
Longford, wine merchant). _b._ 1805; educ. at Edgworthstown
school and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829; student at Gray’s
Inn 24 March 1830; acting editor of Henry Hetherington’s Poor
man’s guardian, an unstamped paper 1831; wrote in Hetherington’s
Poor man’s conservative, signed his articles Bronterre, and
called himself subsequently James Bronterre O’Brien; started
Bronterre’s National Reformer 1837, and in 1838 the Operative,
which ceased July 1839; a delegate to the Chartist meeting in
Palace yard, Westminster 17 Sept. 1838; contributed violent
articles to the Northern Star 1839; tried at Newcastle Feb. 1840
on a charge of conspiracy, when acquitted, but sentenced at
Liverpool April 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment for seditious
speaking; quarrelled with Feargus O’Connor, who called him the
‘Starved Viper’; edited the British Statesman June to Dec.
1842, and The National Reformer 1845; a delegate to Chartist
convention 4 April 1848, but withdrew 9 April; edited Reynold’s
Newspaper for short time in 1848; lectured on his scheme
of social reform at John st. institute and at the Eclectic
institute, Denmark st. Soho, London; author of The life and
character of Maximilian Robespierre 1837, vol. 1, no more
published; Ode to lord Palmerston 1856; An ode to Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte 1857; An elegy on the death of Robespierre 1857; A
vision of hell, lord Overgrown’s dream, his lordship’s reunion
with sir Robert Peel in the regions below 1859. _d._ Hermes st.
Pentonville, London 23 Dec. 1864. _R. G. Gammage’s History of
Chartist movement_ (1854) 114 _et seq._
O’BRIEN, JAMES. _b._ 1810; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1843, M.A.,
B.D., and D.D. 1859; entered Magdalen hall, Oxf.; incorporated
B.A. at Hertford coll. 1861, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1863;
P.C. of St. Patrick, Hove, Brighton 1858, built a church at his
own cost £20,000, 1868, the patronage of which he bequeathed to
Hove; he figures in Cuthbert Bede’s novel Mattins and Mutton’s,
or the beauty of Brighton, 2 vols. 1866, as Dr. O’Lion vol i, p.
319 et seq. _d._ St. Patrick’s parsonage 8 Jany. 1884.
O’BRIEN, JAMES (3 son of James O’Brien of Limerick). _b._
Limerick 27 Feb. 1806; educ. at Belfast institution and Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841;
third serjeant at law 1848–51; second serjeant at law 1851 to 25
Jany. 1858; bencher of Kings inns 1849; M.P. Limerick 1854–8;
justice of court of queen’s bench 25 Jany. 1858 to death. _d._
92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 29 Dec. 1881. _Law mag. and
law review iii 209_ (1857); _Law times lxxii_ 176 (1882).
O’BRIEN, JAMES THOMAS (son of Michael Burke O’Brien, corporation
officer of New Ross, Westmeath, _d._ 1826). _b._ New Ross, Sept.
1792; educ. endowed school of New Ross; a pensioner at Trin.
coll. Dublin, Nov. 1810, scholar 1813, gold medalist 1815,
fellow 1820–36, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1831; one
of the six Dublin univ. preachers 1828–42; archbishop King’s
lecturer in divinity 30 March 1833; voted freedom of borough of
New Ross Sept. 1826; V. of Clondahorky, Raphoe 1836–7; V. of
Arboe, Armagh 1837–41; dean of Cork 9 Nov. 1841, instituted 5
Jany. 1842; bishop of Ossory, Fearns, and Leighlin 9 March 1842
to death, consecrated in Trinity college chapel 20 March 1842;
restored the use of the offertory in the cathedral; author of
An attempt to explain the doctrine of justification by faith
only, in ten sermons 1833, 3 ed. 1863; Sermons upon the nature
and effects of faith 1833, 5 ed. 1891; Tractarianism, its
present state and the only safeguard against it 1850; and 20
other books. _d._ 49 Thurlow sq. London 12 Dec. 1874. _bur._ in
churchyard of St. Canice’s cathedral, Kilkenny 19 Dec. _W. G.
Carroll’s Memoir of J. T. O’Brien_ (1875) _portrait_.
O’BRIEN, JOHN (brother of James O’Brien 1806–81). M.P. city of
Limerick 1841–52; of Elmvale, co. Clare. _d._ 92 St. Stephen’s
Green South, Dublin 5 Feb. 1855. _Freeman’s Journal 7 Feb. 1855
p._ 3.
O’BRIEN, JOHN (son of a solicitor by a Miss Nalder). _b._
Nenagh, co. Tipperary 1811; educ. Trinity college, Dublin to
1834; a sporting man residing at Limmer’s hotel, London 1844,
and setting up for a leader of fashion; had horses trained by
Thomas Dawson of Middleham; purchased Traverser colt 1843, with
whom he won many races; purchased Grimston and Jonathan Wild,
won Goodwood stakes with the latter and the Goodwood cup with
Grimston 1846; said to be worth £25,000 after the Goodwood of
1846; lost all his money by 1848; pawned some paintings on which
the Bishop of Bond st. (Wm. Bishop d. 1871) had made advances,
sent to Newgate 1862; fined £100 for an assault on Dollar Smith
1862; became a broken down swell. _d._ Nenagh 29 Sept. 1869.
_Sporting Times 22 Aug. 1885 p._ 2.
O’BRIEN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1793; entered navy 25 June 1807; lieut.
in the Impregnable at bombardment of Algiers 1816; commander of
the Beaver sloop 1826; captain 8 Aug. 1829, when he went on h.p;
admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. _d._ Fareham 17 Nov. 1865.
O’BRIEN, MATTHEW (son of Matthew O’Brien, M.D.). _b._ Ennis
1814; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1834, junior
fellow 1840–1; third wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841;
moderator in the mathematical tripos 1843–4; lecturer on
practical astronomy at R.M.A. Woolwich 10 Jany. 1849 to death;
professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in King’s college,
London 8 March 1844 to 17 Aug. 1854; author of Mathematical
tracts, Part i on Laplace’s Coefficients 1840, no more
published; An elementary treatise on the differential calculus
1842; The senate house problems for 1844, with solutions 1844;
A treatise on plane co-ordinate geometry 1844, part i; On a new
notation for expressing conditions and equations in geometry
1847. _d._ Petit Ménage, Jersey 22 Aug. 1855.
O’BRIEN, MICHAEL WILLIAM (son of William O’Brien). _b._ 29
Sept. 1813; educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863;
barrister L.I. 5 May 1842; revising barrister 1854; serjeant at
law 13 May 1862; recorder of Lincoln Jan. 1872 to death. _d._ 57
Brunswick road, Brighton 2 June 1873. _Law times lv_ 209 (1873).
O’BRIEN, SIR PATRICK, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Timothy
O’Brien, _d._ 1862). _b._ Dublin 1823; educ. Dublin univ.,
B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847; called to the Irish bar 1844; M.P.
King’s county 1852–85; succeeded to the baronetcy 4 Dec. 1862;
refused to cooperate with the Parnellite party; at one time he
complained to the speaker of the insolence of a member, whom he
called ‘the young sea serpent from county Clare’; a well known
member of the Reform club; author of Notes of interviews with
the ministers of France in reference to the policy of Louis
Napoleon 1852; The French and English in Rome, with notes of
interviews with the Pope and cardinal Antonelli 1853; Journal
of a residence in the Danubian principalities 1854; resided 10
Bryanstown square, London. _d._ 20 Brunswick terrace, Brighton
25 April 1895.
O’BRIENN, TERENCE. Lieut. 87 foot 7 Jany. 1819, major 18
April 1845 to 31 July 1846, when placed on h.p.; assistant
quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1855 to 6 Nov. 1860; commanded
the troops in Ceylon 6 Nov. 1860 to death; M.G. 13 Feb. 1861;
granted service reward 10 Nov. 1856. _d._ on board P. and O.
ship Golconda at Suez 27 July 1865, aged 66.
O’BRIEN, SIR TIMOTHY, 1 Baronet (son of Timothy O’Brien of
Tinnekilly, co. Tipperary). _b._ co. Tipperary 1790; merchant;
Spanish consul and consul for Parma and Placentia 50 Fleet st.
Dublin; governor of the Hibernian bank; lord mayor of Dublin
1844 and 1849; M.P. Cashel 1846–59; created baronet 25 Aug. 1849
on occasion of the queen’s visit to Ireland. _d._ 14 Merrion sq.
east, Dublin 4 Dec. 1862.
O’BRIEN, WILLIAM SHONEY. _b._ Abbeyleix, Ireland 1825; emigrated
to New York, admitted a citizen 1845; worked in the mines in
California 1849; with J. C. Flood kept the Auction lunch saloon,
San Francisco 1854–66; a ship chandler; with J. C. Flood, J. S.
Fair and John Mackey held the silver mine on the Comstock ledge,
Nevada, called the big bonanza 1874, from which they gained
immense wealth, and became known as the Bonanza Kings, he held
one fifth part of the mine. _d._ San Rafael, California 2 May
1878, left from 15 million to 20 million dollars. _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 551 (1888).
O’BRIEN, WILLIAM SMITH (2 son of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet
1773–1837). _b._ Dromoland, co. Clare 17 Oct. 1803; educ. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; assumed additional
name of Smith on death of his maternal grandfather; M.P.
Ennis 1828–31; fought a duel with Thomas Steele, O’Connell’s
‘head pacificator’; M.P. Limerick 1835–48; a motion in house
of commons declaring him guilty of contempt for refusing to
serve on a railway committee of which he had been appointed a
member, was carried by 120 votes 28 April 1846, committed to
custody of sergeant-at-arms 30 April and discharged 25 May;
made his last speech in house of commons 10 April 1848; joined
the Repeal Association 20 Oct. 1843 and became the second man
in the movement; seceded from O’Connell’s party 27 July 1846;
chief founder of the Irish Confederation, which first met 13
Jany. 1847; met Mitchel at the confederate soirée at Limerick
29 April 1848, which meeting is burlesqued by Thackeray in his
The Battle of Limerick (W. M. Thackeray’s Ballads and Tales
1869, pp. 179–83); tried in court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15
May 1848, for his speech at meeting of the Irish confederation
15 March urging formation of a national guard, but the jury
were discharged without returning a verdict 16 May; made an
attack on the police at Boulah Common, near Ballingarry 29 July
1848, which failed, arrested at Thurles railway station 5 Aug.,
tried at Clonmel by a special commission 28 Sept., found guilty
of high treason 7 Oct. and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and
quartered 9 Oct., this sentence was commuted to transportation
for life and he was sent to Tasmania 29 July 1849, granted a
pardon 26 Feb. 1854; resided at Brussels 1854–6; returned to
Ireland July 1856; author of Considerations relative to the
renewal of the East India company’s charter 1830; Principles of
government or meditations in exile, 2 vols. 1856. _d._ Penrhyn
arms, Bangor 18 June 1864. _bur._ Rathronan churchyard, co.
Limerick 24 June, statue by Thomas Farrell, R.H.A. erected close
to O’Connell bridge, Dublin 1870. _Cusack’s The liberator: his
life and times_ (1872) 573–5; _Duffy’s Four years of Irish
history_ (1883) 316–7, 331–3, 511, 561; _W. C. Townsend’s Modern
state trials i_ 469–533 (1850); _Sullivan’s New Ireland i_
163–8 (1877); _Clark and Finnelly’s House of Lords cases ii_
465–96 (1851); _T. C. Anstey’s Case as to the legality of the
arrest of W. S. O’Brien_ 1846; _J. G. Hodge’s Report of trial
of W. S. O’Brien for high treason_ 1849; _I.L.N. iv_ 424 (1844)
_portrait_, _viii_ 300 (1846) _portrait_, _xiii_ 92, 220 (1848)
_portrait_.
O’BRYAN, WILLIAM (2 son of Mr. Bryant). _b._ Gunwen, Luxulyan,
Cornwall 6 Feb. 1778; converted 5 Nov. 1795; changed his name
to O’Bryan; preached in East Cornwall and West Devon; resided
for some years at Liskeard; expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist
society Nov. 1810; formed a small sect constituted under name
of Arminian Bible Christians, otherwise Bryanites, at Lake in
Cornwall 1815; the greater part of his adherents seceded in
1829, and founded a separate society under the name of Bible
Christians; emigrated to U.S. of America 1831, preached a great
deal, but was not able to found a church; author of The rules
of society, or a guide to conduct for those who desire to be
Arminian Bible Christians, 2 ed. 1812; A collection of hymns for
the use of the people called Arminian Bible Christians, Stoke
Damerel 1825; Travels in the United States of America 1836. _d._
Brooklyn, New York 8 Jany. 1868. _Thorne’s William O’Bryan_
(1888); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874) 406.
O’BRYEN, JAMES JOSEPH (son of Terence O’Bryen of Glancolumbhill,
co. Clare). _b._ 1823; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 22 Nov. 1843,
served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and was present in battles of
Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon, medal and two clasps; adjutant of
the 16 N.I. till his regiment was disbanded in the mutiny 1857;
barrack master at Moradabad and at Almorah; second in command
of the 16 or Lucknow regt.; joined the staff corps on its
formation, major 22 Nov. 1863, second in command of 22 Punjab
N.I. 1864, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1869, served in Lushai expedition
1872, medal and clasp, colonel 1874, present in Jowaki campaign
1877, marched with his regt. into Afghanistan Dec. 1879. _d._
Safed Sang 22 Jany. 1880. _S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_
(1882) 150–1 _portrait_, _plate xii_.