Modern English biography

Rodgers’s Aberdeen Doctors_ (1893) 201, 301, 312. O’HAGAN, THOMAS O’HAGAN, 1 Baron (only son of Edward O’Hagan of Belfast, merchant 1779–1836). _b._ Belfast 29 May 1812; educ. Belfast academical institution; student of King’s inns, Dublin Nov. 1831, and bencher 1859; student of Gray’s inn Jany 1834, and hon. bencher 21 Dec. 1883; pupil of Thomas Chitty, special pleader; called to Irish bar Jany. 1836, went north-east circuit; edited the Newry Examiner 1836–40; defended C. G. Duffy, one of the repeal leaders 1843–4; assistant barrister of co. Longford 1847–57, and of co. Dublin 1857; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; third serjeant-at-law 1859; solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1860 to 1861; attorney general Feb. 1861 to 1865; P.C. Ireland 1861; member of board of national education 1858; M.P. Tralee May 1863 to Jany. 1865; judge of Irish court of common pleas Jany. 1865 to Dec. 1868; lord chancellor of Ireland Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, the first Roman catholic chancellor since the reign of James II, lord chancellor again May 1880, resigned Nov. 1881; created baron O’Hagan of Tullahogue, co. Tyrone 14 June 1870; an original member of the intermediate education board 1878, the first vice-chairman; a senator of royal univ. of Ireland 1880, and vice-chancellor 1880 to death; K.P. 17 Jany. 1882; author of Occasional papers and addresses 1884; Selected speeches and arguments, ed. by George Teeling 1885. _d._ Hereford house, Park st. London 1 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, statue by Farrell in the Four courts, Dublin. _O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 314–44 _portrait_; _Pump court ii_ 126 (1884) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 296 (1865) _portrait_, _liv_ 385, 446 (1869) _portrait_; _The Period 2 July 1870 p._ 91 _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 4 Feb. 1865 p._ 68 _portrait_. O’HAGAN, JOHN (2 son of John Arthur O’Hagan of Newry, co. Down). _b._ Newry 19 March 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1865; called to Irish bar 1842, went Munster circuit; a leader of the Young Ireland party; comr. of board of national education 1861; chairman of quarter sessions at Westmeath 1864–70, at Leitrim 1870–2, and at Clare 1872–8; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of King’s inns 1878; third serjeant 31 May 1881; county court judge; judicial comr. under the Land law (Ireland) act of 1881, with rank of justice of high court of justice Sept. 1881 to death; contributed many poems to The Nation newspaper, which are collected in The spirit of the nation, Dublin 1874; author of A lecture on Chaucer in Afternoon lectures on literature and art 1863; The song of Roland 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson 1887; The children’s ballad rosary 1890; Joan of Arc 1893. _d._ Howth, Dublin 12 Nov. 1890. _D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_ (1893) 188; _Irish Law Times xxiv_ 578–9 (1890); _Academy ii_ 476 (1890). O’HALLORAN, HENRY DUNN. Ensign 69 foot 1 Nov. 1818, captain 1 Sept. 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Feb. 1853; major depôt battalion 2 March 1855; lieut. col. 1 West India foot 26 March 1858 to 16 March 1860, when he retired on full pay; M.G. 25 June 1866; author of Volunteer equipments in war 1861. _d._ Bath 30 Sept. 1871, aged 71. O’HALLORAN, THOMAS SHULDHAM (2 son of sir Joseph O’Halloran, G.C.B. 1763–1843). _b._ Berhampore, Bengal 25 Oct. 1797; educ. Marlow 1808, and at Sandhurst; ensign Royal West Middlesex militia 1809; ensign 17 foot 2 Feb. 1813, lieut. 1817–22; served during Nepaul war 1814–6, and Deccan war 1817–8; lieut. 44 foot 1822–7; captain 99 foot 27 April 1827; captain 56 foot 6 March 1828; captain 6 foot 19 Feb. 1829; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Saugor, Central India June 1830 to Jany. 1831, placed on h.p. Oct. 1834; captain 97 foot 27 April 1837, sold out 9 March 1838; suppressed the riots in Yorkshire 1837; settled near Adelaide, South Australia 1838; a justice of the peace 2 Feb. 1839; major commandant of South Australia militia 26 Feb. 1840; comr. of police 8 June 1840, resigned 12 April 1843; commanded expeditions against the natives 1840 and 1841; senior non-official member of the nominee council 1843–51; contested Noarlunga district 1851, and Sturt 1855; lieut. col. of the volunteer military force 1854; member of legislative council 1857, resigned 1863. _d._ Lizard lodge, O’Halloran Hill, near Adelaide 16 Aug. 1870. O’HARA, HENRY. Called to the Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The cotton plant and the countries adapted to its culture, Manchester 1862. _d._ 19 Nov. 1884. O’HARA, ROBERT (only son of John O’Hara of Raheen, co. Galway). _b._ Dublin 1836; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; called to Irish bar 1860; parliamentary draftsman to Irish office in London several years; a member of statute law revision commission; author of a series of letters in _The Times_ upon the Irish land question. _d._ Ostend 21 Sept. 1885. _Law Times 7 Nov. 1885 p._ 16. O’HEA, JAMES (3 son of John O’Hea of Greenfield, Clonakilty, co. Cork). _b._ 1809; educ. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1831; called to bar 1838; crown prosecutor for co. of Limerick 1860 to death, and for county and city of Cork 1849 to death; a follower of D. O’Connell. _d._ Harcourt st. Dublin 27 May 1882. _Law Times 17 June 1882 p._ 129. O’HEA, MICHAEL (son of James O’Hea of Woodfield, parish of Rosscarbery). _b._ Woodfield 12 Aug. 1808; studied at college of Picpus, Paris 3 years, at college of Larochefoucauld, and grand séminaire of Angoulême and Irish college, Paris; sub-deacon, deacon, and priest 1834; held curacies in Ireland 1835–50; parish priest of Rosscarbery 20 April 1850; vicar general of Ross 2 Feb. 1851; bishop of Ross 28 Sept. 1857 to death, consecrated in parish church of Skibbereen 7 Feb. 1858; visited Rome 1862, 1867 and 1869. _d._ Ross August 1877. _Brady’s Episcopal succession ii_ 113 (1876). O’HEA, MISS, known as “Elena Norton.” Composed operetta of ‘The rose and the ring’; In a valley far away, ballad 1876; Gather ye rosebuds, song 1878. _d._ Southsea boarding house, West Cliff road, Bournemouth west, early in March 1880. _Athenæum i_ 419 (1880). OKE, GEORGE COLWELL (son of Wm. Jane Oke d. Truro July 1859). _b._ St. Columb Major, Cornwall 8 Feb. 1821; accountant in a solicitor’s office; assistant clerk to Newmarket bench of justices 1848; assistant clerk at the Mansion House, London 1855–64, chief clerk 1864 to death; author of The synopsis of summary convictions 1848, 2 ed. under title of The Magisterial synopsis 1849, 14 ed. 1893; An improved system of solicitors’ book keeping 1849; The Magisterial formulist 1850, 7 ed. 1893; The laws of turnpike roads 1854, 2 ed. 1861; A handy book of the game and fishery laws 1861, 2 ed. 1863; The laws as to licensing inns 1872, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Rosedale, St. Mary’s road, Peckham, Surrey 9 Jany. 1874. _bur._ Nunhead cemet. 15 Jany. _Law Journal ix_, 38 (1874); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 409, 1296 (1874–8); _I.L.N. lxiv_ 80 (1874) _portrait_; _Graphic ix_ 124, 131 (1874) _portrait_. O’KEEFE, ADELAIDE D. (only dau. of John O’Keefe, dramatist 1747–1833). _b._ Eustace st. Dublin 5 Nov. 1776; contributed 34 poems to Taylor’s Original poems for infant minds, by several young persons, 2 vols. 1804, her pieces are signed Adelaide; author of Original poems calculated to improve the mind of youth and to allure it to virtue, Part i 1808; National characters 1808; Patriarchal times, or the land of Canaan, 2 vols. 1811, 6 ed. 1842; Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a narrative founded on history, 2 vols. 1814; A trip to the coast, poems 1819; Dudley, 3 vols. 1819; Poems for young children 1849; The broken sword, a tale 1854; she was living at 3 Spring place hill, Southampton in April 1848. _d._ about 1855. _Athenæum 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 762; _N. and Q. 7 May 1887 p._ 361, _18 June p._ 503. O’KEEFE, EUGENE. _b._ Cork; educ. St. Francis Xavier college, and at the Sulpitian college, Montreal; attached to the household of the bishop of Toronto until 1864; in charge of a parish in New Jersey; a great linguist and classical scholar. _d._ New York 22 Sept. 1880. O’KEEFE, JOHN (son of Patrick O’Keefe of Abbeyville). _b._ Waterford 1827; educ. Clongowes coll.; sheriff of Waterford 1865; M.P. Dungarvan 1874 to death; resided Mountain castle, Cappoquin. _d._ Stephen’s Green club, Dublin 10 June 1877. O’KEEFE, MATHIAS. _b._ 1830; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1860; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; librarian Queen’s coll. Cork 1855–75; examiner in the Royal university; employed as an analyst in criminal cases; professor of materia medica at Queen’s coll. Cork and lecturer on medical jurisprudence 1875 to death. _d._ 17 St. Patrick’s hill, Cork 19 May 1884. _Medical Times 24 May 1884 p._ 719. O’KEEFE, ROBERT. _b._ Callan, co. Kilkenny; chaplain to a convent in Kilkenny, removed by Dr. Walsh, bishop of Ossory 1849; priest at Rathdowney to 1863; parish priest of Callan 1863; attempted to establish a community of nuns from Beziers in France May 1869, but Dr. Walsh refused his sanction; tried to make the National school at Callan a school for higher education, named it the Callan academy, and sought to make French the normal language of the school; brought actions for libel against his bishop, suspended Oct. 1870; suspended from all ecclesiastical functions by cardinal Cullen, acting under authority from the Pope 13 Nov. 1871; brought an action against the cardinal in queen’s bench Ireland, obtained one farthing damages 27 May 1873; submitted to the Cardinal May 1876; author of Ultramontanism versus civil and religious liberty 1875. _d._ 2 Feb. 1881. _The Callan case_ 1872; _Cardinal Cullen and the P. P. Callan_ 1872; _Court of queen’s bench, R. O’Keefe against cardinal Cullen_ 1874; _Ultramontanism versus education_, _the case of Father O’Keefe_ 1875; _The Dublin review July 1873 pp._ 211–38; _Irish reports Common law series vii_ 319–444 (1874). O’KELLY, JOSEPH (2 son of Matthias Joseph O’Kelly, conchologist). _b._ Dublin 31 Oct. 1832; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860; employed on the geological survey of Ireland 1854; secretary to the survey Oct. 1865 to death; wrote many geological memoirs, published by the survey; M.R.I.A.