Modern English biography

Glasnevin cemetery. _Irish monthly mag. April 1874 pp._ 191–210. ODAMS, JAMES (son of a land steward). _b._ Wavenden, Bucks. 6 May 1815; apprentice to a chemist at Northampton; chemist and druggist Rye street, Bishops Stortford from 1837; one of the first to advocate use of artificial manure; assisted to send seeds to French farmers after Franco-German war 1871; erected cattle markets, on 10 acres, near Victoria dock, London, for foreign cattle to prevent contagion to English stock 1866; patented a manure made from blood and formed a company to manufacture it, called the Blood manure and nitro-phosphate co., of which he was managing director 1851; author of Why have a foreign cattle market on the Thames, and where 1866; Racks and troughs, remarks on transmission of cattle by rail 1873. _d._ The Grange, Bishops Stortford, Herts 6 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Bishops Stortford cemetery 11 Feb. _Live stock journal 11 Feb. 1881 pp._ 119–20; _The Farmer 14 Feb. 1881 p._ 253; _I.L.N. 26 Feb. 1881 p._ 216 _portrait_. ODGER, GEORGE, (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). _b._ Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London; member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder of the International association; a member of the National reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for Bristol July 1870; contested Southwark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874; president of general council of international association of working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers; Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger _v._ the publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary Review 1870–71. _d._ 18 High st. Bloomsbury, London 4 March