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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