Modern English biography

OTWAY, LOFTUS (only son of sir Loftus Wm. Otway, K.C.B., colonel 84 foot 1774–1854). _b._ Brighton 4 Sept. 1815; attached to the missions at Stockholm 1830, at St. Petersburgh 1833, and at Madrid 1834; paid attaché at Lisbon 1843, at Madrid 1845; sec. of legation at Madrid 1850 and chargé d’affaires 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857; minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 19 Feb. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1859; consul general at Milan 2 April 1860 to death; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. _d._ Madrid 26 Sept. 1861. OTWAY, SIR LOFTUS WILLIAM (4 son of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway, _d._ Dec. 1800). _b._ 28 April 1775; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 May 1796; major 18 dragoons 12 Feb. 1807 to 1811, when placed on h.p; served in Ireland during rebellion 1798; saw service in Peninsular war, commanded 3 regt. of Portuguese cavalry at Albuhera; colonel 84 foot 30 Dec. 1840 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; knight commander of Spanish order of Charles III; knighted by prince regent 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. _d._ 13 Grosvenor square, London 7 June 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _G.M. xlii_ 389 (1854); _Cansick’s Epitaphs at St. Pancras ii_ 76 (1872). OUDIN, EUGENE (of French parentage). _b._ New York 1858; a member of the New York bar 1879; came to London 1886 and sang at private parties; appeared as the Templar in Sullivan’s Ivanhoe at the English opera house, London 31 Jany. 1891 with great success; a baritone; sang in Peter Tschaikowsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Olympic theatre on 17 Oct. 1892; translated Albert Carré’s The Basoche 1891, and P. Ferrier’s Elaine, an opera 1892; sang at concerts French songs, which he adapted to English verse; sang at Birmingham festival Oct. 1894; an expert amateur photographer; taken ill at the Richter concert at the Queen’s hall 20 Oct. 1894, carried home in an ambulance. _d._ 31 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 4 Nov. 1894. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 8 Nov. _The Times 5 Nov._ 1894; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 10 Nov. 1894 p._ 337 _portrait_. OUSELEY, SIR FREDERICK ARTHUR GORE, 2 Baronet (younger son of sir Gore Ouseley, diplomatist, 1 baronet 1770–1844). _b._ Grosvenor square, London 12 Aug. 1825, godson of dukes of Wellington and York; educ. privately and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, Mus. Bac. 1850, Mus. Doc. 1854, incorporated Mus. Doc. at Durham 1856, Cambridge 1862, and Dublin 1888; succeeded his father 1844; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London, and C. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London 1849–51; precentor of Hereford cathedral 1855; professor of music in univ. of Oxford May 1855 to death; LL.D. Camb. 1883, LL.D. Edinb. 1884; canon residentiary of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; composed music at three years of age and opera to words by Metastasio at eight; composed two oratorios The martyrdom of St. Polycarp 1855, and Hagar 1873; bequeathed his musical library of about 5,000 vols. to the college of St. Michael, Tenbury, which he built and partially endowed, the church was consecrated and the college opened 29 Sept. 1856, when he became the first vicar and warden, he spent £64,000 on this college; edited E. Naumann’s The history of music 1882; author of A treatise on harmony, Oxford 1868, 2 ed. 1875; A treatise on counterpoint, canon, and fugue, based upon that of Cherubini, Oxford 1869, 2 ed. 1880; A treatise on musical form and general composition, Oxford, 1875; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music. _d._ suddenly in the Birmingham, Dudley and district bank, Hereford 6 April 1889. _bur._ St. Michael’s, Tenbury. _F. T. Havergal’s Memorials of sir F. A. G. Ouseley_ (1889) _portrait_; _J. S. Bumpus’s Compositions of sir F. A. G. Ouseley_ (1892); _Church portrait journal_, _n.s. ii_ 17 (1881) _portrait_. OUSELEY, JOSEPH WALKER JASPER. _b._ 1799; attached to the college of Fort William, Calcutta 1821; assistant professor of Sanscrit, Mahratta and Bengali 1824; professor of Arabic and Persian 1825, secretary of the college 1833–8; superintendent of the Mysore princes 1838–44; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury, England 1844–57; an examiner in oriental languages for civil service commissioners 1862–83; colonel Bengal retired list 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ 10 Inverness terrace, London 29 Oct. 1889. _Times 1 Nov. 1889 p._ 5, _9 Nov. p._ 6. OUSELEY, THOMAS JOHN. Published and edited the Manx Punch several months; author of Poems, Douglas 1869. _d._ May 1874. OUSELEY, SIR WILLIAM GORE (eld. son of sir Wm. Ouseley, orientalist 1767–1842). _b._ London 26 July 1797; attached to British embassy at Stockholm Nov. 1817; attaché at Washington Nov. 1825; secretary of legation at Rio de Janiero June 1832; chargè d’affaires in Brazil 20 April 1838; minister to the Argentine confederation 13 Dec. 1844; went on a special mission to Monte Video Jany. 1847; secured the evacuation of Uruguay by the Argentine troops and the withdrawal of their fleet from Monte Video; sent on a special mission to Central America 30 Oct. 1857; returned to England 1860, retired on a pension of £1,000; K.C.B. 29 June 1852, D.C.L. Oxford 20 June 1855; author of Remarks on the statistics and political institutions of the United States 1832; Notes on the slave trade 1850; A description of views in South America from original drawings made in Brazil, the river Plate, the Parana, &c. 1852. _d._ 31 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 6 March 1866. _G.M. i_ 588–9 (1866); _I.L.N. xxxi_ 460 (1857) _portrait_. OUTRAM, SIR BENJAMIN FONSECA (son of captain Wm. Outram). _b._ Kilham, Yorkshire 1774; educ. United Borough hospitals, London; entered naval medical service 1794, surgeon 1796; surgeon in the Superb in the action off Cadiz 12 July 1801; surgeon to the Royal Sovereign yacht several years; studied at univ. of Edinb. 1806–9, M.D. 24 June 1809; L.C.P. London 16 April 1810, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1852; a physician at Hanover sq. London 1810–50; physician to the Welbeck st. dispensary; F.R.S. 3 May 1838; F.R.G.S.; medical inspector of fleets and hospitals 1841; K.C.B. 17 Sept. 1850; author of De feber continuâ, Edinburgh 1809; Suggestions to naval surgeons, previous to, during, and after a battle. _d._ Brighton 16 Feb. 1856. _bur._ at Clifton. _Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 90 (1878); _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xiii_ 66–8 (1857). OUTRAM, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Outram 1732–1810, manager of the Clyde ironworks, near Glasgow). _b._ the Clyde ironworks 25 March 1805; educ. Leith high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1827; edited the Glasgow Herald May 1837 to death; member of the Edinburgh angling club; author of Legal lyrics and metrical illustrations of the Scotch forms of process 1851, 2 ed. 1874, new ed. by J. H. Stoddart 1887; privately printed a collection of legal anecdotes; assisted John Wilson in his Dies Boreales, a series of articles contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1836–46. _d._ Rosemore on the Holy Loch 15 Sept. 1856. _bur._ Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. _George Outram’s Lyrics_ (1888), _memoir pp._ 1–26 _portrait_. OUTRAM, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Benjamin Outram, civil engineer 1764–1805). _b._ Butterley hall, Derbyshire 29 Jany. 1803; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen 1818–19; ensign 4 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1819; lieut. 1 grenadier N.I. 4 Aug. 1819; lieut. 23 Bombay N.I. 1824, major 1848–53; raised and commanded a corps of Bhils 1825; conducted an expedition into disturbed districts, lying between Kabul and Kandahar 1839; political agent in Lower Sind Dec. 1839, and in Upper Sind 18 Aug. 1841 to 1842; called by sir Charles James Napier 5 Nov. 1842 the Bayard of India; defended the British residency at Haidarabad against 8,000 Baluchis Feb. 1843; presented with a sword and piece of plate at Bombay April 1843; resident at Sattara 26 May 1845, at Baroda May 1847 to 1852; lieut. col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 1854–5; resident at Baroda again 19 March 1854; political agent and commandant at Aden June 1854; resident at Lucknow Nov. 1854; Oudh was annexed Feb. 1856 after his report on that country had been made; commanded the army during the Persian war Nov. 1856, defeated the Persians at Khush-áb 8 Feb. 1857; commanded Dinapore and Cawnpore divisions of the Bengal army during the mutiny from 8 Aug. 1857; chief comr. of Oudh 5 Aug. 1857 to 4 April 1858; besieged in Lucknow Sept. to Nov. 1857; captured Lucknow 19 March 1858; military member of the governor-general’s council 16 April 1858 to July 1860; created baronet 9 Oct. 1858; voted an annuity of £1,000 by house of commons; presented with a silver shield by his friends in Bombay June 1858, which is on loan at South Kensington Museum; L.G. 16 July 1858; presented with freedom of city of London 20 Dec. 1860; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 30 July 1857; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. June 1862; author of Rough notes of the campaigns in Sinde and Afghanistan in 1838–9, 1840; The conquest of Scinde 1846; Baroda intrigues and Bombay Kutput 1853; A few brief memoranda of the public services rendered by lieut. colonel Outram 1853; Lieutenant general Sir James Outram’s Persian campaign in 1857–8, 1860. _d._ Pau 11 March 1863. _bur._ Westminster abbey 25 March, bust by Matthew Noble, R.A. over the doorway on south side of the nave. _Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s James Outram, a biography_, 2 _vols._ (1880) _portrait_; _J. Chapman’s Baroda and Bombay, in relation to removal of lieut. col. Outram from office of resident at Gaekwar_ 1853; _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii_ 109–72 (1880); _E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India ii_ 635 (1860) _portrait_; _Golden Hours_ (1869) 599–610 _portrait_; _J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 17–20 _portrait_. NOTE. There is an equestrian statue of him by Foley in the Maidan of Calcutta, another by Noble on the Thames embankment, London, erected Nov. 1871, Illust. Times 2 Dec. 1871 p. 345 view of his monument in Westminster abbey, uncovered 29 May 1866. OUVRY, FREDERIC (3 son of Peter Aimé Ouvry of the Ordnance office). _b._ 6 Abingdon st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1814; partner in firm of Robinson, King, and Ouvry, solicitors 13 Tokenhouse yard 1837; partner with his brothers-in-law F. W. and W. J. Farrer 66 Lincolns Inn Fields 1855 to death; member of Incorporated law society 12 March 1838, member of council 21 July 1861 to death, vice-president 1870–1, president 1871–2; solicitor to regiment of Scots Guards 9 Nov. 1858 to death; member of Weavers’ company; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1848, member of council 1850–78; treasurer 1854–74, vice-president 1874, president 4 Jany. 1876 to 1878; is depicted by Charles Dickens in a paper in Household Words as Mr. Undery; printed The Cobler of Canterburie 1862; T. Eulenspiegel’s Howleglas 1867; G. Markham’s The famous whore 1868; T. Cranley’s Amanda 1869, and other facsimiles of rare publications; his library, including the first four folios of Shakespeare, was sold for £6,169 at Sotheby’s 30 March to 5 April 1882. _d._ 12 Queen Anne st. London 26 June 1881. _bur._ at Acton, bust by Marshall Wood at Society of Antiquaries. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series_, _ix_ 7 114–7 (1881–3). OVANS, CHARLES. _b._ about 1793; entered Bombay army 1808; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1809; lieut. European regiment 6 July 1811, captain 17 Dec. 1821; major of right wing of the regiment 8 Feb. 1829 to 10 Nov. 1835; quarter master general Bombay 1835–8; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 1837–8, and of 4 N.I. 1838 to 1845; commander and political agent at Sattara 22 June 1837 to 26 Feb. 1845, where he was the chief agent in dethroning the Raja 1845, and was impeached before the court of directors of H.E.I.C. in London on 24 Sept. 1845, but the motion was negatived; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 1845 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel of 19 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1856, and of 14 N.I. 1856 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; author of An account of the settlements made with the Naiks and Bheels of the districts comprising the Kumir agency 1830. _d._ Gloucester sq. London 19 July 1858. _Case of Krushnajee Sudasew Bhider, the accuser of lieut. col. Ovans, of bribery_ 1845; _Debate at India house on case of deposed rajah of Sattara and impeachment of col. C. Ovans_ 1845. OVENS, EDWARD (son of Hugh Ovens of St. Catherine’s, Fermanagh). _b._ 1817; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; chairman of Salford hundred quarter sessions 31 May 1858 to 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 8 (Manchester) 6 May 1862 to death. _d._ Enville house, Bowdon 19 Feb. 1869. _Law Times xlvi_ 418 (1869). OVERALL, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Overall). _b._ St. John’s Wood, London 18 Jany. 1829; educ. City of London college; employed in the town clerk’s office at the Guildhall, London 1847–57; sub-librarian of the corporation library 1847, librarian 23 March 1865 to death; removed the collections to the new building in Basinghall st. and arranged the museum; F.S.A. 11 June 1868; member of council of the Library Association 1879, and of the London and Middlesex archæological society; presented with freedom and livery of Clockmakers’ co. 1877; author of Catalogue of Sculpture, paintings and other works of art belonging to the corporation of the City of London, 2 vols. 1867–8; Some account of the ward of Vintry and the Vintners company 1869; The dictionary of chronology or historical and statistical register 1870; Catalogue of books, pictures, etc. presented by Mrs. Letitia Hollier to, and also of books and music in the library of Gresham college 1872; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, clocks, watches, paintings and prints in the library and museum of the company of Clockmakers 1875; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters, etc. belonging to the Dutch church, Austin Friars, London 1879; edited The accounts of the churchwardens of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill from 1456 to 1608, 1871; Civitas Londinum, a survey of the cities of London and Westminster, published in facsimile with a biographical account of Ralph Agas 1874. _d._ Crouch End, Middlesex 28 June 1888. _bur._ St. Pancras cemetery, Finchley 3 July. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 391 (1887–9). OVEREND, WILLIAM (youngest son of Hall Overend of Sheffield). _b._ 1809; educ. Sheffield gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, bencher 2 Nov. 1855 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1855; contested Sheffield 7 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Pontefract 29 April 1859, resigned Jany. 1860; contested East Derbyshire 23 Nov. 1868; chief comr. to assess damage by bursting of the Bradfield reservoir 11 March 1864, which resulted in the loss of 250 lives and property valued at nearly half-a-million; chief comr. to inquire into Sheffield trade outrages, commission sat at Sheffield 3 June to 8 July 1867; retired from practice about