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personalty sworn under £200,000. _Bookseller Aug. 1859 p._ 1169; _G.M. vii_ 312 (1859). ORME, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham, £50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10 May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. _d._ 103 Shoreditch, London 9 June 1864. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 14 June. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 253–70, 330–8 (1880) _portrait_; _F. W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring_ (1888) 160–7; _Fights for the championship_, _by the editor of Bell’s Life_ (1860) 244–55, 405; _Illust. sporting news iii_ 196, 203 (1864) _portrait_. NOTE.--He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was the only man who defeated Tom Sayers. ORMEROD, EDWARD LATHAM (6 son of the succeeding). _b._ London 27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851; demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7; physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. _d._ 14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. _St. Bartholomew’s Hospital reports vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873); _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 503–6. ORMEROD, GEORGE (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.) _b._ High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school, Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818; purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester, with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby, 3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6; Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. _d._ Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. _G. Ormerod’s History of Chester_, _2 ed. vol._ 1 (1875) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 575 (1873). ORMEROD, GEORGE WAREING (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford, Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S. 1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874; wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club