at 30 Bucklersbury, London; common councilman for ward of Cheap
1863–9; chairman of the library committee of city of London;
F.G.S.; member of London and Middlesex archæological society to
1870; author of A letter on eminent Londoners and civic records
1866; Some account of the citizens of London and their rulers
from 1060 to 1867, 1867; Some particulars of alderman Philip
Malpas and alderman sir Thomas Cooke, K.B. 1868; Illustrations
of Jack Cade’s rebellion from researches in the Guildhall
records 1869. _d._ 33 St. John’s Wood park, London 17 July 1870.
_Trans. of London and Middlesex Archæol. Soc. iv_ 70–1 (1871).
ORRIDGE, ELLEN AMELIA (eld. dau. of Edward Orridge of 2 Houghton
place, Ampthill square, London). _b._ London 1856; educ. Royal
academy of music under Manuel Garcia 1875, took bronze medal
1876, silver and gold medal 1877, Parepa gold medal, second
Christine Nilsson prize and certificate of the Academy 1878;
had a fine contralto voice; sang in Mr. Pyatt’s autumnal tour
concerts 1877 and 1878, at John Boosey’s ballad concerts 1878,
and at A. and S. Gatti’s promenade concerts 1878; sang in
oratorios at Birmingham and other places. _d._ Guernsey 16 Sept.
1883. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 21 Sept. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news x_ 265, 271 (1878) _portrait_.
ORROCK, HECTOR HEATLEY (2 son of James Orrock, dentist). _b._
Edinburgh; educ. Edinb. high sch. under Dr. Boyd; with an
architect in Edinb. to 1853; architect in London 1853–4, and in
Edinb. from 1854 to death; exhibited drawings at Royal Scottish
academy exhibitions. _d._ 19 Broughton place, Edinburgh 15 Feb.
1862.
ORTON, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1817; solicitor in city of London
1843 to death; sworn attorney of the mayor’s court and clerk of
enrolment in the court of hustings 1848 to death, his duties
were to attend the lord mayor as legal adviser and assessor
at all wardmotes where he presided, and on the election of an
alderman and to enrol all deeds in the court of hustings, served
under 45 lord mayors and witnessed the election of 72 aldermen;
master of the Clothworkers’ company July 1883 to July 1884. _d._
Ferry house, River side, Twickenham 6 Feb. 1893.
ORTON, JAMES. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 26 March 1809,
surgeon 17 May 1820, retired 15 Jany. 1840; member of Bombay
medical board 1835, president Jany. 1838 to 15 Jany. 1840. _d._
3 Oxford parade, Cheltenham 15 Feb. 1857.
ORTON, REGINALD (only son of James Orton, inspector-general
of Bombay hospitals). _b._ Surat, near Bombay 27 Jany. 1810;
educ. Richmond gr. sch. Yorkshire; apprenticed to his father
in Bombay; studied at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S.
1833; L.S.A. 1834; surgeon at Sunderland 1834 to 1861 or 1862;
surgeon to Sunderland eye infirmary; was the means of Sunderland
obtaining its system of gas lighting, water supply, &c.; one
of the chief agents in obtaining the repeal of the duty on
glass and windows 24 April 1845; patented in 1845 a new form of
reel lifebuoy and a new lifeboat; invented an æther inhaling
apparatus. _d._ Ford North farm, Bishopwearmouth 1 Sept. 1862.
_G.M. Nov. 1862 pp._ 644–6.
OSBALDESTON, GEORGE (son of George Osbaldeston of
Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, _d._ 1794). _b._ Wimpole st.
London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll.
Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at
Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced
under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single
wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he
removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from
the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of
the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8,
and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs.
he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed
himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket
5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard
Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won;
fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17
April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East
Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the
Squire. _d._ 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866.
_C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana_ (1867) 6–54; _Baily’s Mag.
ii_ 295–306 (1861) _portrait_; _Sporting Review lvi_ 170–80
(1866) _portrait_; _Day’s Reminiscences of the turf_ (1891) 84,
85; _Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck_ (1892) 402–8;
_Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences_ (1843) 43–6; _Wildrake’s Cracks
of the day_ (1841) 32–5; _H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport_
(1895); _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 342 (1862); _Grace’s
Cricket_ (1891) 21 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news ix_
144, 163 (1878) _portrait_.
OSBORN, GEORGE (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper
1764–1836). _b._ Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister
at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester
1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the
Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission
secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863
and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a
supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical
works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols.
1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of
Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. _d._ 24 Cambrian
road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. _Wesleyan Methodist mag.
June 1891 pp._ 468–78 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp._ 124,
126 _portrait_, _2 May 1891 p._ 563 _portrait_.
OSBORN, MARMADUKE CLARK (4 son of Samuel Osborn, cutler). _b._
Sheffield 22 Oct. 1827; educ. Richmond; Wesleyan Methodist
minister at Cambridge 1850–3, at Liverpool 1859–65, 1871–4, and
at London 1868–71; missionary secretary, London 1877 to death;
secretary of the conference 1878–80; corrected and enlarged
William Hill’s An alphabetical arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist
ministers 11 ed. 1869, 12 ed. 1874, 13 ed. 1878, and 14 ed.
1882. _d._ of influenza at Hydropathic establishment, Baslow,
Derbyshire 11 May 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 15 May. _Wesleyan
Methodist Mag. July 1891 pp._ 553–5; _J. E. Ritchie’s Religious
Life of London_ (1870) 227; _Methodist Recorder 14 May 1891 p._
377 _portrait_.
OSBORN, ROBERT DURIE (son of Henry Roche Osborn, lieut. col.
13 Bengal N.I., _d._ 1849). _b._ Agra 6 Aug. 1835; ensign 26
Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1854, lieut. 1857; served during Indian
mutiny 1857–8, and with the Bundelcund field force 1859–60;
lieut. Bengal staff corps 1857, major 20 Dec. 1873, retired
with hon. rank of lieut. col. 1 May 1879; captain 12 regiment
of Bengal cavalry 1868–72; served through Afghan campaign of
1879; resided at 20 Winchester road, Hampstead 1879 to death;
London correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman; author of Islam
under the Arabs 1876; Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad 1878, 2
ed. 1880; Lawn tennis, its players and how to play 1881, 2 ed.
1884. _d._ of syncope while playing lawn tennis at the Hyde Park
tennis court, London 19 April 1889, portrait by J. R. Hodgson
exhibited at the R.A. 1877. _Academy xxxv_ 304 (1889); _Athenæum
i_ 538 (1889).
OSBORN, SAMUEL (brother of Marmaduke Clark Osborn 1827–91).
_b._ Sheffield Aug. 1826; a file maker Brook hill, Sheffield
1851; a manufacturer of steel railway materials in the Wicker,
Sheffield, took J. E. Fawcett into partnership; head of firm of
Samuel Osborn and co., Clyde steel and iron works, Sheffield;
master cutler 1873; suspended payment April 1873 with heavy
liabilities, bought back the business paying a composition of
12s. in the pound, paid all his creditors in full 9 Feb. 1884,
and was presented with a testimonial April 1884; mayor of
Sheffield 1890; removed to the Rutland works, Sheffield 1885.
_d._ Blackpool 7 July 1891. _bur._ Ecclesall 11 July. _Sheffield
Independent 8 July 1891 p._ 5, _10 July p._ 6, _13 July pp._ 5–6.
OSBORN, SHERARD (eld. son of Edward Osborn, colonel Madras
army). _b._ 25 April 1822; entered navy Sept. 1837; commanded
the Pioneer steam tender in the Arctic expedition under captain
Austin 1850–1; commanded the Pioneer again in the Arctic
expedition under sir Edward Belcher 30 Oct. 1852, all the ships
were abandoned 20 Aug. 1854; commanded the Vesuvius in the
Black Sea 1855; senior officer in Sea of Azov June 1855 to
end of the war; commanded the Furious in the Chinese war 1857,
and the Donegal in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican war
1861–2; commanded the Royal Sovereign 1864; agent at Bombay to
the Great Indian Peninsular railway 1865–6; managing director
of the Telegraph construction and maintenance company 1867–71;
R.A. 29 May 1873; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; contested Birkenhead 18
Nov. 1868; wrote many papers in Blackwood’s Mag.; F.R.S. 2 June
1870; author of Stray leaves from an Arctic journal 1852, 2 ed.
1865; Quedah, or stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters
1857, 2 ed. 1865; A cruise in Japanese waters 1859; The career,
last voyage and fate of sir John Franklin 1860; The past and
future of British relations in China 1860; Japanese fragments
with facsimiles of illustrations 1860; edited The discovery of
a north-west passage by captain M’Clure 1856, 3 ed. 1865. _d._
33 Charles st. Berkley sq. London 6 May 1875. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. 10 May. _Geographical Mag. ii_ 161 (1875); _Colburn’s
United service mag._ 1875 _part_ 2, _p._ 254; _I.L.N. xx_ 336
(1852) _portrait_, _lxvi_ 475, 489, 495, 571 (1875) _portrait_;
_Graphic xi_ 486, 492 (1875) _portrait_.
OSBORNE, CATHERINE REBECCA (eld. dau. of Robert Smith, major
R.E.). _b._ 1795; _m._ 4 April 1816 sir Thomas Osborne, 8
baronet, _b._ 1757, _d._ 3 June 1821. She _d._ Newton Anner,
co. Tipperary 10 Oct. 1856. _Memorial of life of Lady Osborne_,
_edited by her daughter Mrs. Osborne_ 2 _vols._ (1870).
OSBORNE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (3 son of the organist of Limerick
cathedral). _b._ Limerick 24 Sept. 1806; studied music at
Brussels 1824–6; chapel master to the prince of Orange
1826–31; wrote with Charles A. de Bériot 33 duets for violin
and pianoforte; served as a volunteer on the royalist side
during Belgian revolution of 1830; resided in Paris 1831–44,
and in London 1844 to death; made tours of the provinces with
other musicians; a popular teacher of the piano, noted for his
performances of Bach’s music; member of the Philharmonic Society
and of the Musical Association and a director of the Royal
academy of music; wrote Sylvia and another opera; La pluie de
perles, valse brillante 1848; Classical pianoforte works 1851–2,
thirty numbers; Fallen leaves, twelve short pieces 1861; The
reapers, a part song 1862; The communion service 1878; his name
is attached to upwards of 250 pieces of music 1834–84. _d._ 5
Ulster terrace, Regent’s park, London 17 Nov. 1893. _Musical
times Dec. 1893 and Jany. 1894._
OSBORNE, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY. _b._ 1808; second lieut. Madras army
6 April 1820; lieut. 19 Madras N.I. 17 July 1823, captain 25 May
1830, major 14 March 1843, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1850 to 1855;
lieut. col. of 46 N.I. 1855–7, of 31 light infantry 1857–8, of
32 N.I. 1858–60, of 48 N.I. 1860–1, and of 33 N.I. 1861 to 31
Dec. 1861; commandant Thayat Mew 22 March 1859 to 31 Dec. 1861;
retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ 5 Lower Seymour st. London 21
Oct. 1880.
OSBORNE, HUGH STACEY. _b._ 1770; entered Bombay army 1788;
lieut. 1 Oct. 1790; captain European infantry 6 March 1800,
major 25 Feb. 1807 to 6 July 1811, lieut. col. 1813–15; lieut.
col. 1 Bombay N.I. 1815; col. 14 N.I. 27 May 1825 to death; M.G.
10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1854. _d._
Brighton 15 Sept. 1855.
OSBORNE, JOHN. _b._ Yorkshire; hunting groom to Mr. Taylor of
Kirton; trained Ararat for Liverpool races; trained horses in
the North; trained for the marquis of Westminster 1842; trained
some horses which his son rode; ran Exact and Lambton at York
1852; had 40 brood mares; ran Brown Brandy. Cherry Brandy, and
Lord Alford; trained for lord Zetland, lord Londesborough, and
sir Charles Monk. _d._ Aug. 1865. _bur._ Coverham ch. yard.
_Sporting Review Sept. 1865 pp._ 165–8.
OSBORNE, JOHN (son of Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol). _b._ 10 Oct.
1810; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835; Q.C. 29 Nov. 1862; judge of
county courts circuit S. Lancashire 26 Jany. 1871 to death. _d._
Bent house, near Prestwich, Lancs. 23 Nov. 1872. _Law Times liv_
122 (1872).
OSBORNE, JOHN WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY. _b._ 25 Sept. 1833; ensign
Indian army 1 Jany. 1850; executive engineer Mhow division July
1855; political agent at Réwah 1857, defeated the mutineers near
Réwah in nine actions 1857, and preserved Bandalkhand during the
mutiny; lieut. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 1
Jany. 1876 to death; hon. aide-de-camp to the governor general
Feb. 1858; C.B. 18 May 1860; adviser to the Begum of Bhopal
1860; administered the Gwalier state to death, where he was in
much favor with Scindhia; colonel in the army 2 April 1877; hon.
A.D.C. to the viceroy of India; author of A pilgrimage to Mecca
by Sikandar Begam, followed by a sketch of the reigning family
of Bhopal 1870. _d._ Mussoree 4 Oct. 1881. _Army and navy mag.
iii_ 539–45 (1882); _Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny v_ 75–7,
134, _vi_ 167 (1889).
OSBORNE, SIDNEY GODOLPHIN (3 son of 1 baron Godolphin
1777–1850). _b._ Stapleford, Cambs. 5 Feb. 1808; educ. Rugby
and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Stoke-Pogis, Bucks.
1832–41; R. of Durweston-with-Bryanstown, Dorset 1841–75;
inspected the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean war 1855;
granted the rank of a duke’s son 28 June 1859; wrote letters in
the Times, all signed with the initials S. G. O. 1844–88; author
of A word or two about the new poor law 1835, 8 ed. 1836; Hints
to the charitable 1838; Hints for the amelioration of the moral
condition of village populations 1839; Gleanings in the west of
Ireland 1850; Lady Eva, her last days, a tale 1851; Scutari and
its hospitals 1855. _d._ Lewes, Sussex 9 May 1889. _Letters of
S. G. O. edited by Arnold White_, 2 _vols._ (1888) _portrait_;
_The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 25 May 1889 p._ 647
_portrait_; _Punch 18 May 1889 p._ 235.
OSBORNE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of William Osborne of
Worcester). _b._ Clapham, Surrey 1814; educ. St. Paul’s sch.
1824, captain of the school 1831–2; Camden exhibitioner to Trin.
coll. Camb. 1832; Craven scholar 1836, senior chancellor’s
medalist 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; ordained 1838; head master
Macclesfield gram. sch. 1836–49; head master of Rossall sch.
1849, retired on £400 a year 1869; English chaplain Wiesbaden
1870–75; R. of Doddington, Somerset 1876–88; prebendary of
Wells 1876 to death; author of The revised version of the New
Testament, a critical commentary 1882; with C. Girdleston Horace
with notes 1848. _d._ Melrose house, Hampton road, Teddington,
Middlesex 4 Jany. 1891. _The Little Journal i_ 219–21 (1884).
OSCROFT, JOHN. _b._ Arnold, Notts. 21 July 1807; a frame work
knitter; played in Nottingham cricket matches many seasons;
in Nottingham _v._ England match 1845 he was 3½ hours at the
wicket; bowler to various clubs in England and Scotland; kept
a public house at Nottingham 1854 to death. _d._ of dysentery
Nottingham 28 Sept. 1857. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii_ 85
(1862).
OSCROFT, JOHN. _b._ Arnold, Notts. 24 March 1846; a frame work
knitter; professional cricketer at the Old Trafford ground,
Manchester 1864, at Lord’s 1865, at Bradford 1866–7; played in
Gentlemen of Yorkshire v. M.C.C. at Lord’s 18 and 19 May 1865;
played with the All England eleven 1868; engaged with the East
Lanarkshire club at Blackburn 1870–3, and at Burnley 1874–5; a
good hitter and fine medium pace bowler. _d._ Arnold 16 June
1885. _Marylebone club cricket scores ix_ 25 (1877); _Bell’s
Life in London 17 June 1885 p._ 4.
OSGOOD, JAMES RIPLEY. _b._ Fryeburg, Maine, U.S. of America
1836; graduated at Bowdoin college, Maine; a manager for Charles
Dickens in America 1867; agent for Harper brothers, publishers
at 30 Fleet st. London 1888–90; head of the firm of Osgood,
Mc Ilvaine and co. publishers 45 Albemarle st. London 1890 to
death; compiled Massachusetts Artists’ centennial album 1876;
Osgood’s Pocket guide to Europe 1882. _d._ 161A Piccadilly,
London 18 May 1892. _J. Forster’s Charles Dickens iii_ 391, 395
(1874).
O’SHANASSY, SIR JOHN (son of Denis O’Shanassy, land surveyor,
_d._ 1831). _b._ Henry street, Tipperary 1818; landed in Port
Philip bay, Victoria 15 Nov. 1839; a draper in Melbourne 1846;
a promoter of the Colonial bank 1856, chairman of the board of
directors 14 years; founded the St. Patrick’s society; one of
the members for Melbourne in the first legislative council of
Victoria 29 Oct. 1851; leader of the opposition in the council;
a member of the gold commission 1855, and of the crown land
commission 1855; member for Kilmore of the first legislative
assembly Sept. 1856 to 1866; premier and chief secretary 11
March to 29 April 1857, premier again 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct.
1859, and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; negotiated the first
Victorian loan of eight millions; created knight of the order
of St. Gregory the Great by pope Pius IX in 1866; member for
Central province of the legislative council Feb. 1868 to 1874;
member of the assembly for Belfast May 1877 to death; C.M.G. 15
Jany. 1870, K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; author of Primary education
in Victoria, speeches, Melbourne 1878. _d._ Tara hall, near
Melbourne 8 May 1883. _Irish Monthly xvii_ 586–90 (1889); _James
F. Hogan’s The Irish in Australia_ (1887) 13, 265–8, 271–4.
O’SHAUGNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR. _b._ London 14 March 1844;
a junior assistant in the British Museum library 27 June 1861,
assistant in the zoological department 5 Aug. 1863 to death,
prepared the part of the annual zoological record devoted to
herpetology; an authority on Reptilia; author of An epic of
women and other poems 1870; Lays of France 1872; Music and
moonlight 1874; Songs of a worker 1881; author with his wife of
Toyland 1875, a book of tales for children; _m._ 1873 Eleanor,
dau. of Westland Marston, the dramatist, she _d._ 8 Feb. 1879;
he _d._ 163 Goldborne road, Kensal Green, London 30 Jany.
1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 3 Feb. _L. C. Moulton’s Arthur
O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work_ (1894), _memoir pp._ 13–46
_portrait_; _E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets_ (1887) 284, 440;
_A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii_ 171–92 (1893); _H. B.
Forman’s Our living poets_ (1871) 508–12; _T. H. Ward’s English
poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 629–32 (1883).
O’SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL. _b._ 1797; called to Irish bar 1828;
Q.C. 16 June 1859. _d._ Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept.
1884.
O’SHAUGHNESSY, SIR WILLIAM BROOKE, afterwards Sir William
O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick).
_b._ Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830;
entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant
surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major
1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta;
laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847,
director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed
the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854;
connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired
1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov.
1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A.
Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases
1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842;
The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta
1844. _d._ Southsea 10 Jany. 1889. _Laurie’s Distinguished
Anglo-Indians_, _1st series_ (1887) 281–2.
OSLER, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Osler). _b._ Falmouth 30 Jany.
1798; educ. Guy’s hospital, London, M.R.C.S. 1818; resident
house surgeon to Swansea infirmary about 1819–25; a surgeon in
the navy 1825; visited the West Indies; on the staff in London
and Bath of the Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge
about 1836; edited at Truro the Royal Cornwall gazette 1841 to
death; published with rev. W. J. Hall Psalms and hymns, adapted
to the services of the church of England 1836, to which he
contributed 15 versions of the psalms and 50 hymns, including
the well known hymn O God unseen yet ever near; author of The
voyage 1830, a poem; Life of admiral viscount Exmouth 1835,
revised editions 1841 and 1854; Church and dissent considered
in their practical influence 1836. _d._ The Parade, Truro 7
March 1863. _bur._ Kenwyn where is memorial window. _Julyan’s
Hymnology_ (1892) 873.
OSMENT, DAVID. _b._ 24 June 1775; initiated in the Lodge of
benevolence, No. 459, at Sherborne Jany. 1820; J.D. and S.D.,
tyler for 20 years and janitor to the chapter for five years; an
annuitant on the Royal masonic benevolent fund 1850 to death.
_d._ Sherborne, Dorset 21 March 1875. _I.L.N. 10 April 1875 p._
345 _portrait_.
OSSINGTON, JOHN EVELYN DENISON, 1 Viscount (eld. son of John
Wilkinson, who took name of Denison of Ossington, Notts., M.P.
Chichester, _d._ 6 May 1820). _b._ Ossington 27 Jany. 1800;
educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L.
22 June 1870; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1823–6; M.P. Hastings
1826–30; M.P. Notts. 1831–2; M.P. South Notts. 1832–7; M.P.
Malton 1841–57; M.P. North Notts. 1857–72; counsel to the lord
high admiral 2 May 1827 to 4 Feb. 1828; speaker of house of
commons 30 April 1857 to 8 Feb. 1872, when he retired, but
refused the usual pension; mainly instrumental in passing 18
and 19 Vict. c. 34, ‘1855 An act to provide for the education
of children in the receipt of outdoor relief,’ which is known
as Denison’s act; P.C. 6 May 1857; cr. viscount Ossington of
Ossington, co. Nottingham 13 Feb. 1872. _d._ Ossington hall,
Newark, Notts. 7 March 1873. _C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire
worthies_ (1882) 366–68 _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873)
20–21 _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world iii_ 65 (1859)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_ 455, 456 (1857) _portrait_, _lxii_ 259,
297, 355 (1873) _portrait_.
OSTEN, WILHELM, Baron Osten. Lieutenant first regiment of light
dragoons king’s German legion 10 Nov. 1803; lieutenant 16
lancers 17 Nov. 1808; major 25 Oct. 1827, sold out 7 March 1834;
K.H. 1823; a general in Hanoverian service. _d._ Rufford abbey,
Notts. 24 Jany. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 299 (1852).
OSTREHAN, GEORGIANA AUGUSTA (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan).
_b._ 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the
Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under
name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. _d._ at the Convent 5
Jany. 1884. _Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890)
221–32 _portrait_.
O’SULLIVAN, MICHAEL. _b._ 3 Oct. 1823; educ. Oscott and at
English coll. at Rome; matric. univ. of London; a priest in
Birmingham, Brewood, and Stafford; canon of St. Chad’s cath.
Birmingham; vicar general of Birmingham diocese to 1879; member
of Birmingham school board Nov. 1870 to death; resided at
Solihull from 1879. _d._ Solihull, Birmingham 12 Jany. 1892.
O’SULLIVAN, MORTIMER (2 son of a schoolmaster at Clonmel,
Tipperary). _b._ Clonmel 1791 or 1792; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1816, M.A. 1832; second master of Tipperary endowed school
and curate of parish of Tipperary about 1820; the first master
of the royal school at Dungannon; chaplain of St. Stephen’s
chapel, Dublin; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 20
Dec. 1827 to 24 Aug. 1830; R. of Killyman, co. Armagh 24 Aug.
1830; gave evidence before committees of lords and commons on
the state of Ireland 1825, and on Orange lodges 1835; Donellan
lecturer at Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; R. of Tanderagee, near
Ballymore 1853 to death; prebendary of Armagh to death; author
of Captain Rock detected, or the origin and character of the
recent disturbances. By A Munster farmer 1824; A guide to an
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