Modern English biography

O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work_ (1894), _memoir pp._ 13–46 _portrait_; _E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets_ (1887) 284, 440; _A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii_ 171–92 (1893); _H. B. Forman’s Our living poets_ (1871) 508–12; _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 629–32 (1883). O’SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL. _b._ 1797; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 16 June 1859. _d._ Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept. 1884. O’SHAUGHNESSY, SIR WILLIAM BROOKE, afterwards Sir William O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick). _b._ Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830; entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major 1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta; laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847, director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854; connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired 1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A. Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases 1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842; The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta