Modern English biography

Odger_ (1877); _London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait_; _W. E. Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers_ (1883) 350–2; _Graphic xv_ 270 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 257 (1877) _portrait_; _Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia_ (1890) 633–4; _Littell’s Living age cxxxiii_ 2 (1877), _a poem_. O’DOHERTY, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ Dublin 1835; worked in the studio of Joseph R. Kirk, R.H.A., sculptor 1852–4; came to London 1854; exhibited under name of W. J. Dogherty at the R.A. 1857 a model in plaster of Gondoline, afterwards executed in marble for R. C. L. Bevan, the banker; sent to the R.A. the model of marble statue of Erin 1860, engraved by T. W. Knight for the Art Journal 1861; called himself Doherty 1860–1, but took name of O’Doherty 1862; exhibited 6 sculptures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1857–64; went to Rome about 1865. _d._ the hospital of La Charité in Berlin Feb. 1868. _Art Journal_ (1861) 252, (1868) 73. O’DONEL, SIR GEORGE CLENDINING, 5 Baronet (elder son of sir Richard Annesley O’Donel, 4 bart. 1808–78). _b._ Newport house, co. Mayo 15 June 1832; ensign 62 foot 22 Dec. 1848, lieut. 23 May 1851, sold out 1852; knighted by the lord lieutenant at Dublin castle 21 Feb. 1865, in compliance with the clause in the patent of baronetcy 1780; succeeded as 5 baronet 9 Nov. 1878. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 22 Jany. 1889. O’DONNELL, SIR CHARLES ROUTLEDGE (son of lieut. col. H. A. O’Donnell, C.B. of Limerick). _b._ 1794; ensign 2 foot 9 Sept. 1813; lieut. 15 hussars 7 Sept. 1815, major 14 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; colonel on the staff in Ireland 1843–50; col. 18 hussars 10 Sept. 1864 to death; general 2 April 1865; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem; M.R.I.A.; resided at Trugh, near Limerick. _d._ Donyland lodge, near Colchester 18 Nov. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 555 (1870). O’DONNELL, JOHN FRANCIS (son of a shopkeeper). _b._ Limerick 1837; a reporter on the Manchester News 1854–6; wrote verse and prose in The Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland party 1854 to death; sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, a Clonmel paper 1856–60; on the staff of the Universal News, a weekly R.C. paper in London 1860–2; on the staff of The Nation in Dublin 1862–4, and editor of Duffy’s Hibernian Mag. 1862–4; edited the Universal News 1864–5, and sub-edited The Tablet 1865–8; contributed numerous poems advocating republican principles to the Dublin national journals under pseudonyms of Caviare and Monkton West; London correspondent of the Irish People, the organ of the Fenian movement 1864–5; sent poems to All the year round 1861–2; employed in the London office of the agent-general of New Zealand Sept. 1873 to death; author of The emerald wreath, Dublin 1865; Memoirs of the Irish Franciscans 1871. _d._ London 7 May 1874. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _J. F. O’Donnell’s Poems_ (1891) _memoir pp. vii–xxi_; _M. McDonogh’s Irish graves in England_ (1888) 94–8 _two portraits_. O’DONNELL, LAURENCE, D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. _d._ Taylor’s hill, Galway 23 June 1855. _bur._ 25 June. _The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855 p._ 2, _27 June p._ 2. O’DONNELL, MATTHEW (eld. son of Richard O’Donnell of Kilkenny). _b._ 1813; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Westmeath 1870; author of A treatise on the law of actions in the civil bill court 1844; A commentary upon the jurisdiction of the court of the assistant barrister 1852; and with Francis Brady of An analytical digest of the cases in courts of equity in Ireland and the house of lords