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news x_ 265, 271 (1878) _portrait_. ORROCK, HECTOR HEATLEY (2 son of James Orrock, dentist). _b._ Edinburgh; educ. Edinb. high sch. under Dr. Boyd; with an architect in Edinb. to 1853; architect in London 1853–4, and in Edinb. from 1854 to death; exhibited drawings at Royal Scottish academy exhibitions. _d._ 19 Broughton place, Edinburgh 15 Feb. 1862. ORTON, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1817; solicitor in city of London 1843 to death; sworn attorney of the mayor’s court and clerk of enrolment in the court of hustings 1848 to death, his duties were to attend the lord mayor as legal adviser and assessor at all wardmotes where he presided, and on the election of an alderman and to enrol all deeds in the court of hustings, served under 45 lord mayors and witnessed the election of 72 aldermen; master of the Clothworkers’ company July 1883 to July 1884. _d._ Ferry house, River side, Twickenham 6 Feb. 1893. ORTON, JAMES. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 26 March 1809, surgeon 17 May 1820, retired 15 Jany. 1840; member of Bombay medical board 1835, president Jany. 1838 to 15 Jany. 1840. _d._ 3 Oxford parade, Cheltenham 15 Feb. 1857. ORTON, REGINALD (only son of James Orton, inspector-general of Bombay hospitals). _b._ Surat, near Bombay 27 Jany. 1810; educ. Richmond gr. sch. Yorkshire; apprenticed to his father in Bombay; studied at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1833; L.S.A. 1834; surgeon at Sunderland 1834 to 1861 or 1862; surgeon to Sunderland eye infirmary; was the means of Sunderland obtaining its system of gas lighting, water supply, &c.; one of the chief agents in obtaining the repeal of the duty on glass and windows 24 April 1845; patented in 1845 a new form of reel lifebuoy and a new lifeboat; invented an æther inhaling apparatus. _d._ Ford North farm, Bishopwearmouth 1 Sept. 1862. _G.M. Nov. 1862 pp._ 644–6. OSBALDESTON, GEORGE (son of George Osbaldeston of Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, _d._ 1794). _b._ Wimpole st. London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8, and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs. he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket 5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won; fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17 April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the Squire. _d._ 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866. _C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana_ (1867) 6–54; _Baily’s Mag. ii_ 295–306 (1861) _portrait_; _Sporting Review lvi_ 170–80 (1866) _portrait_; _Day’s Reminiscences of the turf_ (1891) 84, 85; _Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck_ (1892) 402–8; _Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences_ (1843) 43–6; _Wildrake’s Cracks of the day_ (1841) 32–5; _H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport_ (1895); _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 342 (1862); _Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 21 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news ix_ 144, 163 (1878) _portrait_. OSBORN, GEORGE (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper 1764–1836). _b._ Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester 1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863 and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols. 1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. _d._ 24 Cambrian road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. _Wesleyan Methodist mag. June 1891 pp._ 468–78 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp._ 124, 126 _portrait_, _2 May 1891 p._ 563 _portrait_. OSBORN, MARMADUKE CLARK (4 son of Samuel Osborn, cutler). _b._ Sheffield 22 Oct. 1827; educ. Richmond; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Cambridge 1850–3, at Liverpool 1859–65, 1871–4, and at London 1868–71; missionary secretary, London 1877 to death; secretary of the conference 1878–80; corrected and enlarged William Hill’s An alphabetical arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist ministers 11 ed. 1869, 12 ed. 1874, 13 ed. 1878, and 14 ed.