Modern English biography

NUTT, DAVID (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and Hanbury’s brewery, London). _b._ 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields, London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death; bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st. Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages 1857. _d._ 270 Strand, London 28 Nov. 1863. _bur._ at Norwood cemet. _G.M. xvi_ 126 (1864). NUTTALL, JOHN, known as Soldier. _b._ Barnsley 1835; height 5 ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March 1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds, Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side, Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground 9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb. 1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. _d._ Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. _Illust. sporting news v_ 57 (1866) _portrait_; _Bell’s Life in London 30 Oct. 1875 p._ 4. NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs. printer). _b._ Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786; brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March 1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri 1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England 1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death; author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia 1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany, Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d. Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. _Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii_ 75, _&c._ (1889); _Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1860) 26–9; _Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology of United States_ (1891) _pp. v–vii_. NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of the Westminster dispensary). _b._ London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856, captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut. col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan, the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug. 1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug. 1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April 1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880; L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. _A. Forbes’s Afghan wars_ (1892) 299. O OAKELEY, FREDERICK (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). _b._ the Abbey house, Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. _d._ 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. _Reminiscences of Oxford_, _edited by L. M. Q. Couch_ (1892) 301–45; _A.R._ (1845) 95–6; _C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley_ (1845). OAKELEY, SOULDEN. _b._ 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. _d._ Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856. OAKES, CHARLES HENRY (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry Oakes, 2 baronet 1756–1827). _b._ 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5 May 1837; edited Who’s Who 1851 to death. _d._ 16 May 1864. OAKES, JOHN WRIGHT. _b._ Sproston house, near Middlewich, Cheshire 9 July 1820; exhibited fruit-pieces at Liverpool academy 1839 &c., member of the academy, hon. secretary several years; a landscape painter about 1843 to death; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 11 at Suffolk st. 1847–80; resided in London 1859 to death; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1874, resigned 1875; A.R.A. 2 April 1876; honorary M.R.S.A. Nov. 1883. _d._ Leam house, 34 Addison road, Kensington 8 July 1887. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 469 (1876) _portrait_; _Graphic xiii_ 462, 476 (1876) _portrait_. OAKES, THOMAS GEORGE ALEXANDER. _b._ 2 June 1827; cornet 12 lancers 16 Jany. 1846, lieut. col. 5 March 1861 to 25 March 1871; M.G. 17 May 1869; inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry 1 April 1873–7; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ Farnham 22 Aug. 1878. OAKEY, JOHN. _b._ 1813; glass paper manufacturer at 3 Manor 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