10 Jany. or June 1824; educ. at St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw,
Durham 10 June 1836 to 17 May 1847; received tonsure and 4
minor orders 15 Feb. 1845, sub-deacon 20 Sept. 1845, deacon 19
Dec. 1846, priest 9 May 1847; assistant priest of mission at
St. Patrick’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 18 May 1847 to 8 Dec.
1852; removed to new mission of St. Vincent de Paul 8 Dec. 1852,
erected a new church 1857; canon of chapter of Liverpool 24 Dec.
1862 and vicar-general; bishop of Liverpool 28 Feb. 1873 to
death; consecrated at St. Vincent’s, Liverpool 19 March 1873.
_d._ St. Edward’s coll. Everton 9 April 1894. _bur._ Upholland
cemet. Wigan 13 April. _Brady’s Episcopal succession iii_ 423
(1877).
O’REILLY, DOWELL (4 son of Matthew O’Reilly of Knock Abbey
castle, co. Louth, _d._ Jany. 1817). _b._ May 1795; called to
Irish bar; barrister L.I. 17 April 1832; attorney general of
Jamaica 1831–55; nominated president of legislative council
there June 1855, but he died before being inaugurated. _d._ St.
Andrews, Kingston, Jamaica 13 Sept. 1855. _bur._ in R.C. cemet.
Kingston 14 Sept. _G.M. xliv_ 651 (1855).
O’REILLY, EDMUND JOSEPH. _b._ London 30 April 1811; studied
at Maynooth and the Irish college at Rome 1830, doctor in
sacred theology 1835; professor of theology at Maynooth college
1838–50; member of the Society of Jesus 1852; teacher of
theology at the Jesuits’ college of St. Beuno, near St. Asaph
1852–8; teacher of divinity in the catholic univ. of Ireland
1858–9; superior of the Jesuits’ house of retreat at Milltown
Park, Dublin 1859 to death; Irish provincial of Society of Jesus
1863–70. _d._ Milltown Park 10 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Glasnevin
cemet. Dublin. _E. J. O’Reilly’s The relations of the church to
society_ (1892) _memoir pp. i–viii_; _Irish Monthly vi_ 695–700
(1878).
O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE (2 son of Wm. David O’Reilly, master of
the national school attached to the Netterville institution
at Dowth Castle, near Drogheda 35 years, _d._ 17 Feb. 1871).
_b._ Dowth Castle 28 June 1844; a compositor on the Guardian
newspaper at Preston 1859, reporter on the paper to March 1863;
a trooper in the 10 hussars May 1863, arrested at Island Bridge
barracks, Dublin 13 Feb. 1866, tried by court martial at the
royal barracks, Dublin 27 June 1866 for having in Dublin in
January 1866 come to the knowledge of an intended mutiny in her
majesty’s forces in Ireland and not giving information to his
commanding officer, ordered to be shot 9 July, but eventually
sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, sent to Western Australia
Oct. 1867, escaped on an American whaler April 1869; editor and
part proprietor of the Pilot newspaper in Boston 1870; took
part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the
rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western
Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national
celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas, Boston
1873; Songs, legends, and ballads, Boston 1878; The statues
in the block and other poems 1881; Ethics of boxing and manly
sports 1888; In Bohemia, poems 1886; Moondyne, a story 1889;
edited The poetry and songs of Ireland 1889; author with Robert
Grant, F. J. Stimson, and J. T. Wheelwright of The king’s man,
a tale of tomorrow 1884, a satirical novel. _d._ Winthrop st.
Boston 10 Aug. 1890. _bur._ Holyhood cemetery, Brookline,
Massachusetts 12 Aug. _J. J. Roche’s Life of J. B. O’Reilly_
(1891) _portrait_; _Cosmopolitan ix_ 768 (1890) _portrait_;
_Irish Monthly xiii_ 19 (1885).
O’REILLY, MONTAGU FREDERICK. _b._ 1822; entered R.N. Feb. 1835,
lieut. 12 Dec. 1845, capt. 23 June 1862, retired 1 April 1870,
R.A. 9 March 1878; served in the Chinese war 1841; first lieut.
of Retribution in Black sea during Russian war, wounded at
Odessa 22 April 1854, present at attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct.
1854, Crimean medal, two Turkish medals and the medal of the
Medjidié fifth class; author of Twelve views in the Black sea
and the Bosphorus, with letterpress 1856, the original sketches
are at Windsor Castle. _d._ Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 20 May
1888.
O’REILLY, MYLES WILLIAM PATRICK (only son of Wm. O’Reilly of
Knock abbey, co. Louth 1792–1844). _b._ Dublin 13 March 1825;
educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham; B.A. London 1845,
LL.D. Rome 1847; sheriff of co. Louth 1848; captain Louth rifles
militia; major in service of Pius IX, commanded the Irish
brigade, defended Spoleto against the Piedmontese troops Sept.
1860, but was obliged to surrender; M.P. co. Longford March 1862
to April 1879; assistant comr. of intermediate education in
Ireland April 1879 to death; author of Progress of catholicity
in Ireland in the nineteenth century 1865; Memorials of those
who suffered for the Catholic faith in Ireland 1868, reprinted
under the title of Lives of the Irish martyrs and confessors,
New York 1878. _d._ Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Philipstown near
Knock Abbey.
ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 earl of Oxford
1752–1822). _b._ Whitehall, London 14 June 1783; styled lord
Walpole 1809–22; M.P. for King’s Lynn 1809–22; a lord of the
admiralty 12 June 1811; secretary of embassy at St. Petersburgh
5 July 1812 to 5 April 1825 when pensioned, minister ad interim
1814–5; a comr. for the affairs of India 17 June 1818 to 17
Feb. 1822; succeeded to the peerage 15 June 1822; colonel West
Norfolk militia 26 June 1822; high steward of Great Yarmouth
1833–6. _d._ Wolterton park, Aylsham, Norfolk 29 Dec. 1858.
ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 4 Earl of (eld. child of preceding).
_b._ Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 18 April 1813; styled lord
Walpole 1822–58; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. for East
Norfolk 1835–7; succeeded to the peerage 29 Dec. 1858. _d._ 6
Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1894.
O’RIORDAN, DANIELL O’CONNELL. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 28
Feb. 1880. _d._ 13 Aug. 1890.
ORKNEY, GEORGE WILLIAM HAMILTON FITZMAURICE, 6 Earl of (1 son of
5 earl of Orkney 1803–77). _b._ 6 May 1827; known as viscount
Kirkwall 1831–77; ensign 92 foot 8 Aug. 1845; capt. 71 foot 23
Dec. 1853; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 25 Jany. 1856, sold
out 25 Sept. 1857; served at siege of Sebastopol and capture
of Kertch, medal and clasp and Turkish medal; aide-de-camp to
sir Henry Wood in Ionian islands 1851–4; C.M.G. 1866, K.C.M.G.
28 May 1875; succeeded 16 May 1877; a representative peer for
Scotland 19 Feb. 1885 to death; author of Four years in the
Ionian islands 1864. _d._ 26 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London
21 Oct. 1889.
ORLEANS, HELENE LOUISE ELISABETH, Duchess of (youngest dau.
of Frederic Louis, grand duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, _d._
1816). _b._ Ludwigslust castle 24 Jany. 1814; _m._ at palace of
Fontainebleau, France 30 May 1837 Ferdinand, duke of Orleans,
prince royal of France, eld. son of Louis Philippe, king of the
French, the duke was killed by a fall from his carriage 13 July
1842; she escaped to Belgium at outbreak of French revolution
Feb. 1848; resided chiefly in Germany 1848–57, but was very
frequently in England; lived at Cambourne house, Mr. William
Paynter’s villa, Richmond, Surrey 1857–8. _d._ Cambourne house,
Richmond 18 May 1858. _H. Castille’s Portraits politiques_,
_La duchess d’Orleans_ (1856); _The duchess of Orleans_, _a
translation by Mrs. Austin_ (1859); _I.L.N. 23 July 1842 pp._
168–9, _29 May 1858 p._ 544 _portrait_; _G.M. June 1858 p._ 668.
ORLEBAR, JOHN (3 son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick house,
Bedfordshire 1775–1833). _b._ Hinwick house 19 Oct. 1810;
entered navy 16 March 1824; captain 1 Jany. 1861, retired 1
Oct. 1864; admiralty surveyor in British North America 30
years; retired admiral 15 July 1887. _d._ 91 Pevensey road, St.
Leonards-on-Sea 11 May 1891. _An account of families of Boase_
(1893) 112.
ORMATHWAITE, JOHN BENN-WALSH, 1 Baron (only son of sir John
Benn-Walsh, 1 baronet 1759–1825). _b._ Warfield park, Bracknell,
Berks. 9 Dec. 1798; educ. Eton; matric. from Christ Church,
Oxf. 3 Dec. 1816; sheriff of Berkshire 1823; succeeded as 2
bart. 7 June 1825; M.P. Sudbury 1830–4, and 1838–40; contested
Radnorshire 19 Jany. 1835; contested Poole 25 July 1837; M.P.
Radnorshire 1840–68; lord lieutenant of Radnorshire 11 Aug.
1842, resigned 1875; cr. baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite,
Cumberland 16 April 1868; author of Poor laws in Ireland
in their effect upon the capital, the prosperity, and the
improvement of that country 1830, 3 ed. 1831; Popular opinion on
parliamentary reform, 4 ed. 1831; Observation on the ministerial
plan of reform 1831; On the present balance of parties in the
state, 3 ed. 1832; Chapters of contemporary history 1836; The
practical result of the reform act 1860; Astronomy and geology
compared 1872; Lessons of the French revolution 1873. _d._
Warfield park 3 Feb. 1881.
ORME, COSMO. _b._ Scotland 1780; apprenticed to James Fairbairn,
bookseller, Edinburgh; clerk in house of Longman and Rees,
London; partner in house of Longman, Rees, Hurst, and Orme 1803,
retired June 1841; the first president of the Booksellers’
provident institution 15 Feb. 1837. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 12 Aug.
1859. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 19 Aug., will proved 26 Aug.
personalty sworn under £200,000. _Bookseller Aug. 1859 p._ 1169;
_G.M. vii_ 312 (1859).
ORME, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826;
pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in
weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds
lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham,
£50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds
lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again,
£100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10
May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near
Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31
rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for
the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public
house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. _d._ 103 Shoreditch,
London 9 June 1864. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 14 June. _H. D.
Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 253–70, 330–8 (1880) _portrait_; _F.
W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring_ (1888) 160–7;
_Fights for the championship_, _by the editor of Bell’s Life_
(1860) 244–55, 405; _Illust. sporting news iii_ 196, 203 (1864)
_portrait_.
NOTE.--He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was
the only man who defeated Tom Sayers.
ORMEROD, EDWARD LATHAM (6 son of the succeeding). _b._ London
27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at
St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius
coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and
scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851;
demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7;
physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex
county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and
museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations
on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy
and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. _d._
14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. _St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital reports vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873); _J. F. Clarke’s
Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874)
503–6.
ORMEROD, GEORGE (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.)
_b._ High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school,
Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818;
purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his
death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author
of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester,
with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s
Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby,
3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays
illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6;
Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. _d._
Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. _G. Ormerod’s History of
Chester_, _2 ed. vol._ 1 (1875) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 575
(1873).
ORMEROD, GEORGE WAREING (2 son of the preceding). _b._
Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford,
Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S.
1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874;
wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of
the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject
in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to
the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the
Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club
1888. _d._ Woodway, Teignmouth 6 Jany. 1891. _Athenæum 10 Jany.
1891 p._ 56; _Academy xxxix_ 43 (1891).
ORMEROD, THOMAS JOHNSON (brother of the preceding). _b._ 27
July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew
lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A.
1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining
chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in
univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to
1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall
with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author
of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges,
lectures, and sermons. _d._ Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec.
1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200.
_I.L.N. lxv_ 571 (1874).
ORMEROD, WILLIAM PIERS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Welbeck
st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St.
Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator
of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec.
1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec
1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical
collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in
anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s
hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in
an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, _d._
Canterbury 10 June 1860. _bur._ St. Martin’s, Canterbury. _St.
Bartholomew’s hospital reports_, _vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873).
ORMISTON, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 28 July 1826; worked as a
builder with his father and uncle; an engineer working on the
Clyde 1846–64; erected the Needles Rock lighthouse 1856–7;
chief engineer to Elphinstone land and press company of Bombay
1864–73, reclaimed 328 acres of land from the sea; chief
engineer of Bombay port trust 1873–77; constructed the Bombay
wet dock 1875–80; fellow of univ. of Bombay; dean of faculty of
engineering there 1879; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; C.I.E. 1 Jany.
1880. _d._ Freshwater, Isle of Wight 9 July 1882. _Minutes of
proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi_ 409–15 (1883).
ORMOND, FRANCIS (son of capt. Ormond of the mercantile marine).
_b._ Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1829; educ. Liverpool; a squatter in
Victoria, Australia, made a fortune; gave £40,000 for building
the Presbyterian coll. Melbourne 1877–87; contributed to the
Working men’s coll. 1887 and was the first president; founded
Ormond coll. Melbourne; gave £20,000 to endow a chair of music
at the Melbourne univ. 1887; member of legislative council;
resided Egoleen, Toorak, Melbourne. _d._ Pau, France 5 May 1889,
left £40,000 to Ormond coll., £10,000 to Melbourne Working men’s
coll., and many other gifts to institutions and charities. _P.
Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 356–7; _Times 11 May 1889
p._ 12.
ORMONDE, JOHN BUTLER, 2 Marquess of (eld. child of James Butler,
1 marquess of Ormonde 1774–1838). _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 24
Aug. 1808; educ. Harrow 1821 etc.; known as viscount Thurles
1808–38; succeeded as 2 marquess 22 May 1838; hereditary chief
butler of Ireland 1838 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen
Sept. 1841 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. 1853 to death; K.P. 17 Sept.
1845; author of An autumn in Sicily, an account of the remains
of antiquity in that island, Dublin 1850; translated F. P. G.
Guizot’s Meditations and moral sketches 1855, and A. Dumas’
Memoirs of a mâitre d’ armes 1856. _d._ Loftus hall, co. Wexford
25 Sept. 1854. _bur._ in Kilkenny cathedral 2 Oct. _G.M. xlii_
505 (1854); _I.L.N. xxv_ 361 (1854).
ORMONDE, ALFRED. _b._ Kilkenny 19 March 1816; dramatist. _d._
April or May 1852. _Leipsig Illustrated News 23 May 1852
portrait._
ORMSBY, ARTHUR SYDNEY (youngest son of rev. Owen Ormsby). _b._
Seatown house, Dundalk Feb. 1825; articled to George Halpin,
engineer 1839–44; resident engineer on a portion of Midland
great western line; an engineer in U.S. of America 1849–51;
assistant colonial engineer Melbourne, Australia 1852; executive
engineer public works department Calcutta 1858–61; experimented
on the water supply to London 1861, proposing to collect the
rain fall before it reached the ground, and to discriminate
between the potable water and the water for ordinary purposes;
constructed water works at Hillbottom, Berks.; author of A new
idea for the water supply of towns 1867. _d._ London 24 Feb.
1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_ 479–81 (1887).
ORMSBY, HENRY W. (son of Henry Ormsby, R. of Kilskier, co.
Meath). _b._ Kilskier Feb. 1812; educ. Trinity college, Dublin,
B.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher
of King’s Inns 1874; solicitor general for Ireland 1868 and 12
March 1874; attorney general 21 Jany. to 12 Nov. 1875; P.C.
Ireland Jany. 1875; judge of landed estates court 12 Nov. 1875;
judge of chancery division of high court of justice in Ireland
1878–85. _d._ Marine terrace, Bray 17 Sept. 1887. _Law Times 1
Oct. 1887 p._ 386.
ORMSBY, JOHN WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.A. 6 Aug. 1828; colonel
R.A. 9 Aug. 1858; M.G. 5 April 1866; lieut. governor and
commandant royal military academy Woolwich 1 April 1867 to
death. _d._ Woolwich 17 March 1869.
ORNSBY, GEORGE (eld. son of George Ornsby of the Lodge,
Lanchester, Durham, _d._ 1823). _b._ Darlington, Durham 9 March
1809; educ. Durham gr. sch. 1823–7; practised as a solicitor in
Durham; studied theology at Univ. coll. Durham 1839–41; C. of
Newburn, Northumberland 1841–3; C. of Sedgefield, Durham 1843–4;
C. of Whickham, Durham 1845–50; V. of Fishlake, South Yorkshire
July 1850 to death; hon. M.A. Durham 1872; F.S.A. 29 May 1873;
preb. of York 15 Feb. 1879 to death; author of Sketches of
Durham 1846; York 1882 in Diocesan histories; edited for the
Surtees society The works and letters of D. Granville, dean
of Durham 1861–5; The correspondence of John Cosin, bishop of
Durham, 2 vols. 1869–72, and Selections from the household book
of lord William Howard of Naworth castle 1878. _d._ Fishlake
vicarage 17 April 1886. _Proc. of soc. of antiq. xi_ 376 (1886);
_Biograph July 1881 pp._ 26–8.
ORNSBY, ROBERT (brother of preceding). _b._ 1820; educ. Linc.
coll. Oxf.; exhibitioner 1836–43; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow
of Trin. coll. 1843–7, and lecturer in rhetoric 1844; master
of the schools; C. of St. Peter-the-less, Chichester 1845–7;
entered the church of Rome May 1847; helped to manage the Tablet
newspaper in Dublin; professor of classical literature in the
Catholic univ. Dublin Oct. 1854–82; librarian at Arundel Castle
a short time; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland and examiner in
Greek 1882 to death; author of The life of St. Francis de Sales
1856; Η Καινη Διαθηκη the Greek testament from cardinal Mai’s
edition of the Vatican bible, with notes, Dublin 1860; Memoirs
of James Robert Hope Scott, Q.C., 2 vols. 1884. _d._ Earlsfort
terrace, Dublin 21 April 1889. _E. G. K. Browne’s Tractarian
Movement_ (1861) 145, 151.
O’RORKE, PATRICK HENRY. _b._ co. Cavan, Ireland 25 March 1837;
taken to U.S. of America 1838; educ. Rochester, New York; a
marble cutter; second lieut. of engineers in the Federal army
24 June 1861, first lieut. 3 March 1863, brevet colonel 2 July
1863; served at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861; colonel of the
140th regiment of New York volunteers Sept. 1862, which became
one of the best in the army of the Potomac; _killed_ in the
battle of Gettysburg 2 July 1863. _Appleton’s American biography
iv_ 591 (1888) _portrait_.
O’ROURKE, HUGH. Professor of English, rhetoric and French in
royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1862–85; elected bishop
of Clonfert 10 Feb. 1881, but declined the charge. _d._ 1885.
ORPEN, SIR RICHARD JOHN THEODORE (2 son of Francis Orpen, V. of
Kilgarvan, co. Kerry, _d._ 1805). _b._ Cork 6 Nov. 1788; educ.
Middleton and Cork; solicitor at Dublin 1809 to death; president
of Incorporated society of attorneys and solicitors of Ireland
1860 to death; one of the comrs. to inquire into practice
of courts of law and equity in Ireland; knighted by duke of
Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868. d. 41 George’s st. Great North, Dublin 4
May 1876. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 8 May. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 478
(1876); _Irish Law Times x_ 266, 281, 300 (1876).
ORR, SIR ANDREW (eld. son of Francis Orr of Glasgow, wholesale
stationer). _b._ Glasgow 1802; educ. univ. of Glasgow; partner
in firm of S. Orr and Co., stationers, Glasgow; member of town
council 1842–60; lord provost of Glasgow 1854–7; knighted
at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; took an active part in
procuring for Glasgow a water supply, public parks, and a
gallery of arts 1857–9; chairman of Glasgow and south western
railway 1849; acquired estates of Harvieston and Castle Campbell
1859, Aberdona 1860, and Sheardale 1861. _d._ Bridge of Allan,
Perthshire 19 April 1874. _Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii_ 253–4
(1886) _portrait_.
ORR, CHARLES ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Madras engineers 9 June
1831, colonel 29 June 1863; colonel commandant 24 March 1871 to
death; L.G. 20 March 1876. _d._ 6 Oct. 1876.
ORR, JOHN H. _b._ Grey Abbey, co. Down 26 Nov. 1826; ordained at
Antrim 19 March 1851; D.D.; clerk of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in Ireland 1869 to death; moderator of the
general assembly 1887; sec. of the trustees of the fund of the
Regium Donum; sent letters to The Times on 1 and 6 July 1892 in
reply to Mr. Gladstone, giving the views of Irish Presbyterians
on home rule. _d._ Antrim 23 Jany. 1895. _Daily Graphic 22 March
1893 p._ 4 _portrait_.
ORR, ROBERT SCOTT (son of a chemist). _b._ Edinburgh 1819;
apprentice to sir George Newbigging; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1840,
M.R.C.S. 1866, M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1856;
medical assistant royal lunatic asylum; superintendent Glasgow
royal infirmary 1843, afterwards physician; member of general
medical council 1 April 1878 to death; president of Faculty of
physicians and surgeons 1880–3; author of Statistical tables
of the Royal infirmary of Glasgow 1845–7, 3 vols.; Historical
sketch of epidemic fever in Glasgow 1848. _d._ 9 Albany place,
Glasgow 15 May 1886. _Lancet i_ 1001 (1886).
ORR, SUTHERLAND GEORGE GORDON. _b._ 1816; ensign European
regiment (left wing) 23 Feb. 1836; captain 23 Madras light
infantry 12 March 1846 to death; commandant 3 regt. Hyderabad
cavalry 27 Jany. 1854 to death. _d._ at the residence of his
brother-in-law Greenhill, Barnet, Herts. 19 June 1858. _Mrs. C.
Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine of a soldier’s life._
ORR, WILLIAM ADAM (eld. son of Wm. Orr, _d._ 1816). _b._ 1810;
educ. Addiscombe coll.; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 15 Dec. 1826,
colonel 9 June 1862 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 1862 to
death; C.B. 21 March 1859; succeeded to the property of Patrick
Orr of Bridgeton 1828. _d._ Weston super Mare 11 Sept. 1869.
ORR, WILLIAM SOMERVILLE. Publisher at 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s
churchyard, London 1837–59; the London publisher of W. & R.
Chambers’ works 1850; published Orr’s Circle of the Sciences, 9
vols. 1854–6; A primary atlas of ancient and modern geography
1855; in the employment of Chapman and Hall, publishers, London,
at time of his death. _d._ 129 Blenheim crescent, Notting Hill,
London 6 Jany. 1873. _The Publishers’ circular 1 Feb. 1873 p._
72.