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Anglo-Indians_, _1st series_ (1887) 281–2. OSLER, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Osler). _b._ Falmouth 30 Jany. 1798; educ. Guy’s hospital, London, M.R.C.S. 1818; resident house surgeon to Swansea infirmary about 1819–25; a surgeon in the navy 1825; visited the West Indies; on the staff in London and Bath of the Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge about 1836; edited at Truro the Royal Cornwall gazette 1841 to death; published with rev. W. J. Hall Psalms and hymns, adapted to the services of the church of England 1836, to which he contributed 15 versions of the psalms and 50 hymns, including the well known hymn O God unseen yet ever near; author of The voyage 1830, a poem; Life of admiral viscount Exmouth 1835, revised editions 1841 and 1854; Church and dissent considered in their practical influence 1836. _d._ The Parade, Truro 7 March 1863. _bur._ Kenwyn where is memorial window. _Julyan’s Hymnology_ (1892) 873. OSMENT, DAVID. _b._ 24 June 1775; initiated in the Lodge of benevolence, No. 459, at Sherborne Jany. 1820; J.D. and S.D., tyler for 20 years and janitor to the chapter for five years; an annuitant on the Royal masonic benevolent fund 1850 to death. _d._ Sherborne, Dorset 21 March 1875. _I.L.N. 10 April 1875 p._ 345 _portrait_. OSSINGTON, JOHN EVELYN DENISON, 1 Viscount (eld. son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison of Ossington, Notts., M.P. Chichester, _d._ 6 May 1820). _b._ Ossington 27 Jany. 1800; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 22 June 1870; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1823–6; M.P. Hastings 1826–30; M.P. Notts. 1831–2; M.P. South Notts. 1832–7; M.P. Malton 1841–57; M.P. North Notts. 1857–72; counsel to the lord high admiral 2 May 1827 to 4 Feb. 1828; speaker of house of commons 30 April 1857 to 8 Feb. 1872, when he retired, but refused the usual pension; mainly instrumental in passing 18 and 19 Vict. c. 34, ‘1855 An act to provide for the education of children in the receipt of outdoor relief,’ which is known as Denison’s act; P.C. 6 May 1857; cr. viscount Ossington of Ossington, co. Nottingham 13 Feb. 1872. _d._ Ossington hall, Newark, Notts. 7 March 1873. _C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire worthies_ (1882) 366–68 _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 20–21 _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world iii_ 65 (1859) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_ 455, 456 (1857) _portrait_, _lxii_ 259, 297, 355 (1873) _portrait_. OSTEN, WILHELM, Baron Osten. Lieutenant first regiment of light dragoons king’s German legion 10 Nov. 1803; lieutenant 16 lancers 17 Nov. 1808; major 25 Oct. 1827, sold out 7 March 1834; K.H. 1823; a general in Hanoverian service. _d._ Rufford abbey, Notts. 24 Jany. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 299 (1852). OSTREHAN, GEORGIANA AUGUSTA (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan). _b._ 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. _d._ at the Convent 5 Jany. 1884. _Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) 221–32 _portrait_. O’SULLIVAN, MICHAEL. _b._ 3 Oct. 1823; educ. Oscott and at English coll. at Rome; matric. univ. of London; a priest in Birmingham, Brewood, and Stafford; canon of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham; vicar general of Birmingham diocese to 1879; member of Birmingham school board Nov. 1870 to death; resided at Solihull from 1879. _d._ Solihull, Birmingham 12 Jany. 1892. O’SULLIVAN, MORTIMER (2 son of a schoolmaster at Clonmel, Tipperary). _b._ Clonmel 1791 or 1792; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1832; second master of Tipperary endowed school and curate of parish of Tipperary about 1820; the first master of the royal school at Dungannon; chaplain of St. Stephen’s chapel, Dublin; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 20 Dec. 1827 to 24 Aug. 1830; R. of Killyman, co. Armagh 24 Aug. 1830; gave evidence before committees of lords and commons on the state of Ireland 1825, and on Orange lodges 1835; Donellan lecturer at Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; R. of Tanderagee, near Ballymore 1853 to death; prebendary of Armagh to death; author of Captain Rock detected, or the origin and character of the recent disturbances. By A Munster farmer 1824; A guide to an Irish gentleman in his search for a religion, Dublin 1833; The case of the protestants of Ireland stated 1836; Of the apostasy predicted by St. Paul, Dublin 1842; Theory of developments in Christian doctrine 1846; The hour of the Redeemer 1853. _d._ Dublin 30 April 1859. _bur._ Chapelizod churchyard. O’SULLIVAN, SAMUEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ Clonmel 13 Sept. 1790; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1825, D.D.; C. of St. Catherine’s, Dublin 1818, and chaplain of the Marshalsea, Dublin 1819; chaplain to the royal Hibernian military school in Phœnix park, Dublin 1827 to death; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag., Fraser’s Mag., and the Dublin Univ. review; author of The agency of divine providence manifested in the principal transactions connected with the history of Great Britain from the reformation to the revolution in 1688, Dublin 1816; The catechism of the united church of England and Ireland explained and confirmed, Dublin 1850. _d._ Royal Hibernian school, Dublin 6 Aug. 1851. _bur._ churchyard of Chapelizod, Dublin 9 Aug. _Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1851 pp._ 504–8; _Remains of rev. S. O’Sullivan_, 3 _vols._ (1853) _memoir vol. i pp. i–xlviii_. O’SULLIVAN, WILLIAM HENRY (only son of Thomas Luke O’Sullivan of Rathkeale, co. Limerick). _b._ 1829; merchant Kilmallock, co. Limerick; under strict police surveillance, his house at Kilmallock being the rendezvous of the Fenians down to 1867, when they resorted to arms; imprisoned in Limerick gaol some months, but never brought to trial 1867; sat as a home rule M.P. for co. Limerick 1874–85; a follower of C. Parnell for some time; chairman of Kilmallock board of guardians. _d._ Kilmallock 27 April 1887. OSWALD, ALEXANDER HALDANE (son of Richard Alexander Oswald, _d._ 1822). _b._ 1811; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; M.P. Ayrshire 1843–52; contested Weymouth 10 July 1852, and Ayrshire 30 Dec. 1854; inherited Aunchincruive estate near Ayr, from his uncle James Oswald, M.P. in 1853; assumed the name of Haldane. _d._ Aunchincruive house 6 Sept. 1868. _I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1868 p._ 283. OSWELL, WILLIAM COTTON (elder son of Wm. Oswell of Shrewsbury). _b._ Leytonstone, Essex 27 April 1818; educ. Rugby and Haileybury; served in Madras civil service 1837–47, ordered to South Africa for his health, where he spent two years hunting and exploring; discovered Lake Ngami with Dr. Livingstone 1849, and the Zambesi 1851; the Knabaõba or straight-horned rhinoceros was named Oswellii after Oswell; returned to England 1853; served as a volunteer, in the trenches and hospitals, during war in the Crimea; carried secret service money from lord Raglan to sir Lintorn Simmons at Shumla; resided at Groombridge, Kent 1860 to death; contributed four chapters on South Africa to C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting 1894. _d._ Hillside, Groombridge 1 May 1893. _C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting_ (1894) _memoir vol. i_ 28–34; _Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1894 pp._ 307–12; _Daily Graphic 9 May 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_. OSWIN, CHARLES HANNAY. A member of the Marylebone literary and scientific institution, established April 1832, where he was known as Alphabet Owen; a writer on the Dispatch 1838; a writer of verses; was residing in Harley st. London in 1842; author of Elsdale hall, or the days of Oliver Cromwell, a play in 3 acts, with the pirate’s bride and other poems 1843. _The Town ii_ 513 (1838). NOTE.--Elsdale hall was produced by Miss Kelly in 1842. OTLEY, JONATHAN. _b._ Loughrigg, Westmoreland 11 Jany 1766; resided at Keswick; author of A concise description of the English lakes, with observations on mineralogy and geology, Keswick 1825, 6 ed. 1837, 8th ed. to which is added an excursion through Lonsdale to the caves 1849. _d._ Keswick 7 Dec. 1856. OTTAWAY, CUTHBERT JOHN (only son of James Cuthbert Ottaway of Inverness terrace, Bayswater). _b._ Dover 20 July 1850; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., scholar 1869–74, B.A. 1874; in the Eton eleven 1867–69, in the Oxford eleven 1870–3, secretary of the Oxford univ. cricket club 1872, president 1873; played for the Gentlemen against the Players 1870; one of Fitzgerald’s eleven in America 1872; played for Middlesex 1872, making an average of 89 runs; the Oxford racquet and tennis champion 1870–2; played in the football team against Scotland 1872, and in the first match Oxford against Cambridge 3 Dec. 1873; barrister I.T. 1876. _d._ 34 Westbourne place, Harrow road, London 2 April 1878. _Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 350; _Marylebone club cricket scores x_ 177 (1878). OTTER, FRANCIS (1 son of Francis Otter of Ranby hall, Louth). _b._ 4 Nov. 1832; educ. Rugby and Corpus Christi coll. Oxf., scholar 1850–61, fellow 1861–75, tutor, vice-president 1871; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1856; mathematical moderator 1859, 1861, and 1869; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; returned as a liberal for Louth division of Lincolnshire Dec. 1885 to 1886; contested the Sleaford division of Lincolnshire Sept. 1889; an intimate friend of George Eliot. _d._ 37 Gordon sq., London 29 May 1895. OTTER, HENRY CHARLES. _b._ 1807; entered R.N. 1822; commanded the Sparrow, the Avon, the Porcupine and the Shamrock surveying vessels 1844 etc.; capt. R.N. 8 Sept. 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; compiled Scotland, North West coast, Little Minch, its lights, buoys, etc. 1859; F.R.A.S. 11 Nov. 1842; published Sailing directions for the west coast of Scotland 1867; and with W. Stanton Western Hebrides, sailing directions for the sound of Harris 1859. _d._ Clare park, Hants. 26 March 1876. _Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xxxvii_ 152 (1877). OTTER, WILLIAM BRUERE (eld. son of Wm. Otter, bishop of Chichester 1768–1840). Educated St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1838; V. of Cowfold, Horsham 1839 to death; prebendary of Chichester cathedral 1850 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 1855 to death; author of The ornaments of ministers, Brighton 1866. _d._ Cowfold vicarage 25 June 1876. OTTLEY, HENRY (son of William Young Ottley, F.A.S., 1771–1836). _b._ 1811; author of Remarkable sieges, from the siege of Constantinople in 1453 to that of Sebastopol 1854, 1854; Fechter’s version of Othello critically analysed 1861; A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, forming a supplement to Bryan’s Dictionary of painters 1866; On the errors of diplomacy, with reference to the treaty of Washington 1872. _d._ Torquay 3 Feb. 1878. _Times 6 Feb. 1878 p._ 1. OTTLEY, LAWRENCE. _b._ 1808; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1850 to death; canon of Ripon 1858 to death; proctor in convocation for Richmond; revised W. Barne’s A selection of psalms and hymns 1852; and printed some sermons. _d._ London 11 June 1861. OTTON, GEORGE RALPH. _b._ 1825; entered the house of Simpkin, Marshall and co. publishers, Stationers’ hall court 1837, where he became the right hand man of the chief partner Mark Lockwood; a partner in the firm 1859 to death. _d._ 34 Highbury hill, London 24 Jany. 1878. _The Bookseller 1 Feb. 1876 p._ 84. OTWAY, SIR GEORGE GRAHAM, 2 baronet (son of sir Robert Waller Otway, bart. 1772–1846). _b._ Westwood, near Southampton Sept. 1816; entered navy 15 July 1828; succeeded his father 13 May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; commander of Virago steam sloop in Mediterranean; admiral on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. _d._ the Rione Amadeo, Naples 22 Aug. 1881. OTWAY, JOHN HASTINGS (eld. son of rev. Cæsar Otway 1768–1842). _b._ Celbridge, co. Kildare 25 July 1808; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1832; professor of law of personal property at Dublin twice; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; judge of Antrim county court 1858 to death; recorder of Belfast 1867 to death; author of Public opinion, a lecture