Modern English biography

Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin. _Law Times lx_ 279 (1876); _Irish Law Times x_ 61 (1876). O’DONNELL, PATRICK. _b._ Meeracladdy, near Derrybeg in Donegal 1835; in America 1859–79; served in Federal army during civil war; kept a public house on the Canadian frontier; sent by the Fenians to the Cape on board the Kinfauns Castle to make away with James Carey, the Fenian crown witness in the Phœnix park murders case, shot him on board the steamer Melrose between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth 29 July 1883, brought to England, tried at the Old Bailey 30 Nov., 1 Dec. 1883, _hanged_ at Newgate 17 Dec. 1883, monument in Roman catholic cemetery Dublin. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 300, 302, 545 (1883) _two portraits_. O’DONOGHUE, DANIEL, known as The O’Donoghue (only child of Charles James O’Donoghue O’Donoghue of the Glens, co. Kerry, _d._ 1833). _b._ 1833; educ. Stonyhurst; major of Kelly militia; M.P. Tipperary 1857–65; M.P. Tralee 1865–85; author of A letter to cardinal Manning on his expression of confidence in Mr. Parnell 1886. _d._ Ballsmahon court, Athlone 7 Oct. 1889. _Illust. Times 16 Feb. 1867 p._ 97, _view of the O’Donoghue addressing the reform meeting in the Agricultural hall, London_. O’DONOGHUE, JOHN. _b._ 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1831, B.A. 1833; called to Irish bar 1837; contributed to the Freeman’s Journal 1838, editor of the Journal 1871; wrote many literary articles in Dublin univ. mag.; author of A book about the Irish bar in 1840; The summary jurisdiction of magistrates at the petty sessions courts in Ireland 1835; Historical memoirs of the O’Briens 1860. _d._ 9 Henrietta st. London 23 March 1893. O’DONOGHUE, PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; sentenced to death for high treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. _d._ New York Feb. 1854. O’DONOVAN, EDMUND (son of the succeeding). _b._ Dublin 13 Sept. 1844; studied medicine at Trin. coll. Dublin, clerk to the registrar and assistant librarian; contributed to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers from 1866; served in the légion etrangère of the French army Sept. 1870, took part in the battles round Orleans, was wounded and made prisoner; described in the Times and the Hour the Carlist rising in Spain 1873; correspondent of the Daily News in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1876, and in Asia Minor 1877–8; went to Merv 1879, detained there several months; author of The Merv oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian, 2 vols. 1882; went to the Soudan for the Daily News 1883, attached himself to army of Hicks Pasha which marched on Obeid, the army fell into an ambush and O’Donovan was _killed_ 3–5 Nov. 1883, probate of his will was not granted till 1891; brass tablet designed by Herbert Johnson in memory of O’Donovan and six other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. _J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections_ (1892) 1–25; _Graphic xxiv_ 609 (1881) _portrait_, _xxviii_ 529 (1883) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 96 (1883) _portrait_, _lxxxiii_ 532 (1883) _portrait_, _lxxxv_ 576 (1884) _portrait_. O’DONOVAN, JOHN (4 son of Edmond O’Donovan, farmer, _d._ 29 July 1817). _b._ at farm of Attateemore, at foot of Tory hill, Kilkenny 9 July 1809; worked in the Irish record office 1826, and in the historical department of ordnance survey of Ireland 1829; wrote many articles in the Dublin Penny Journal 1832–3, and in the Irish Penny Journal 1840–1; student at Gray’s Inn 15 April 1844, called to Irish bar 1847; employed by the commission for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland 1852 to death; LL.D. Dublin 1850; granted civil list pension of £50, 5 June 1856; author of A grammar of the Irish language, for the use of the senior classes in the college of St. Columba 1845; Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, 7 vols. 1851. _d._ 36 Upper Buckingham st. Dublin 9 Dec. 1861. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin, his widow Mary Anne O’Donovan granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1863. _J. T. Gilbert’s Memoir of John O’Donovan_; _J. O’Donovan’s Annala Rioghachta vi_ 2160–1 (1851); _Dublin univ. mag. lix_ 85–8 (1862). O’DOWD, JAMES KLYNE. _b._ 1802; called to Irish bar Michaelmas term 1832; solicitor for merchant shipping; assistant solicitor of customs; published The law relating to the sale of estates in Ireland 1849; Customs’ administrators and customs’ reformers, the digest of the Charlotte row committee 1851, 2 ed. 1853; The new practice of the court of chancery 1852; The merchant shipping amendment act 1863; The law and facts of the case of the Alabama 1873. _d._ 24 Nov. 1879. _Law Times lxviii_ 140 (1879). NOTE.--It was upon his legal advice the government declined to take steps to prevent the construction of the Alabama 1862. O’DWYER, ANDREW CAREW (son of Joseph O’Dwyer of Cork and Waterford, merchant). _b._ 1800; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; M.P. Drogheda 15 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834, re-chosen 12 Jany. 1835 but unseated on petition 24 April 1835; secondary of Irish exchequer; connected with periodical press during agitation for Catholic relief act; author of Danger of conceding ecclesiastical securities, Concordat in the Netherlands 1829; Belgium in 1828, Ireland in 1851, 1851; The catholic question of 1851, considered 1851. _d._ 15 Nov. 1877. _Law Times lxiv_ 91 (1877). O’FARRELL, MICHAEL JOSEPH. _b._ Limerick 2 Dec. 1832; ordained R.C. priest 18 Aug. 1855; professor of dogmatic theology in the college of the Sulpitian order in Paris; professor in the Sulpitian seminary at Montreal; pastor of St. Patrick’s church, New York, then of St. Peter’s, New York 1869–72; pastor at Rondout 1872, then at St. Peter’s again 1872–81; bishop of Trenton 1881 to death, consecrated in New York cathedral by cardinal McClosky. _d._ Trenton 1 or 2 April 1894. O’FERRALL, RICHARD MORE (eld. son of Ambrose O’Ferrall of Balyna, co. Kildare 1752–1835). _b._ Balyna, Kildare 1797; M.P. co. Kildare 1830–47 and 1859–65; M.P. co. Longford 21 April 1851 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1835 to 28 Aug. 1839; secretary to the admiralty 4 Oct. 1839 to 9 June 1841; secretary to the treasury 9 June 1841; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1847 to 1851; P.C. 22 Nov. 1847. _d._ Kingstown, near Dublin 27 Oct. 1880. _W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of right rev. Dr. Doyle i_ 394, _ii_ 110, 558 (1880). OFFICER, SIR ROBERT (son of Robert Officer). _b._ Scotland 1800; educ. St. Andrew’s univ., B.A., M.A.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; went to Van Diemen’s Land; government medical officer for New Norfolk; practised at Hobart Town in partnership with James Wilson Agnew; assistant colonial surgeon in Van Diemen’s Land; member of the legislative council for Buckingham 1853; member of house of assembly for Glenorchy Sept. 1856 to April 1877, chairman of committees 1856–61; speaker of the house Aug. 1861 to April 1877; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. _d._ Hall Green, near New Norfolk, Tasmania 8 July 1879. OFFOR, GEORGE (son of George Offor). _b._ 1787; bookseller at 2 Postern row, Tower Hill, London, where he acquired a fortune; made a collection of early printed English bibles, psalters, and testaments, and a unique collection of Bunyan’s works, the greater part of his library was burnt in Sotheby’s auction rooms 29 June 1865; author of An easy introduction to reading the Hebrew language 1814; The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpation of the church 1846; edited The Hebrew psalter revised 1820; The New Testament by W. Tyndale 1836; The Pilgrim’s progress 1847 for Hanserd Knolly’s society; The Pilgrim’s progress 1856, 3 ed. 1884; The works of John Bunyan, 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1862; Profitable meditations being Christ and a sinner by J. Bunyan 1860; Little books by J. Bunyan 1873. _d._ Grove house, Grove st. South Hackney 4 Aug. 1864. _bur._ Abney Park cemet. _G.M. Oct. 1864 p._ 528. O’FLAHERTY. RICHARD JAMES. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; assistant surgeon in the army 9 Jany. 1835, deputy inspector general 19 July 1859, surgeon general 19 Oct. 1872 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ Malabar hill, Bombay 8 Dec. 1874. OGBORNE, ELIZABETH (dau. of David Ogborne, artist). _b._ Chelmsford; _bapt._ 16 May 1759; author of The history of Essex, with notices of the most distinguished natives and engravings by Mr. Ogborne, the first volume was published in 1817, but the engraved title page is dated 1814, no more appeared; many of her manuscripts were used as waste paper, the remainder were purchased in March 1854 by Edward J. Sage, an Essex antiquary. _d._ Great Portland st. London 22 Dec. 1853. OGDEN, CHARLES RICHARD (son of Isaac Ogden, judge of court of king’s bench at Montreal). _b._ Montreal 1791; called to bar at Montreal 1812; solicitor general of province of Lower Canada 1823, attorney general 17 Nov. 1832; barrister L.I. 22 April 1844; attorney general of Isle of Man 29 Jany. 1844 to death; registrar of Liverpool district probate court 1858 to death. _d._ Edge hill, near Liverpool 19 Feb. 1866. OGDEN, J. H. _b._ Manchester 1829 or 1830; a singer of Irish comic songs at the Raglan and other London music halls, and in the provinces to 1861; appeared at the Canterbury music hall, and Lea’s Melodion, New York 1861; was singing in London 1862–4; returned to U.S. of America and sang at the Casino, Philadelphia, June 1864. _d._ 722 Sansom st. Philadelphia 11 Aug. 1864. _Era 4 Sept. 1864 p._ 6. OGDEN, JOHN. _b._ 1790; author of Varieties in verse, including songs for the celebration of Shakspeare’s birthday 1823; The friendly observer, or remarks and suggestions on various subjects of public interest 1851. _d._ 15 Dec. 1853. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs_ (1872) 146. OGDEN, JOHN. _b._ Leeds 1829; apprentice to sir E. Baines, printer, Leeds; in employment of Woodfall and Kinder, printers, London 1851, manager of the works to 1866; a printer at Brewhouse yard, 172 St. John’s st. Clerkenwell, as John Ogden and co.; he worked long hours and was a proficient in all branches of his business; he printed Hart’s Army list, the A B C railway guide, the Argosy magazine, and at one time The Figaro and Whitaker’s Almanack. _d._ Ilkley, Yorkshire 18 July 1887. _Bookseller_, _Aug. 1887 p._ 764. OGDEN, JONATHAN ROBERT (only son of Robert Ogden, merchant, _d._ 1816). _b._ Leeds 13 June 1806; became a unitarian; a piano and violin player, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and August Kollman in London; studied music in Paris, Munich, and Vienna 1827; resided at Lakefield, Sawrey, Lancs. 1834 to death; composed Holy songs and musical prayers for four voices, London 1843, in which he adapted pieces by Beethoven and others as hymn tunes, these adaptations were omitted from the seventh ed. of Holy songs