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).