Modern English biography

1891 p._ 56; _Academy xxxix_ 43 (1891). ORMEROD, THOMAS JOHNSON (brother of the preceding). _b._ 27 July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to 1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges, lectures, and sermons. _d._ Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec. 1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200. _I.L.N. lxv_ 571 (1874). ORMEROD, WILLIAM PIERS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Welbeck st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec 1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, _d._ Canterbury 10 June 1860. _bur._ St. Martin’s, Canterbury. _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports_, _vol. ix_, _pp. vii–xxi_ (1873). ORMISTON, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 28 July 1826; worked as a builder with his father and uncle; an engineer working on the Clyde 1846–64; erected the Needles Rock lighthouse 1856–7; chief engineer to Elphinstone land and press company of Bombay 1864–73, reclaimed 328 acres of land from the sea; chief engineer of Bombay port trust 1873–77; constructed the Bombay wet dock 1875–80; fellow of univ. of Bombay; dean of faculty of engineering there 1879; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; C.I.E. 1 Jany.