Modern English biography

1885 p._ 177. OVERSTONE, SAMUEL JONES LOYD, 1 Baron (only child of Lewis Loyd of London, banker 1768–1858). _b._ 43 Lothbury, London 25 Sept. 1796; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; a banker in Manchester 1844 to 23 Dec. 1848; M.P. Hythe 1819–26; contested Manchester 15 Dec. 1832; the last survivor of those who held seats in the house of commons in the reign of George III; sheriff of Warwickshire 1838; presided over a great liberal meeting at the London tavern 15 June 1841; head of Jones Loyd and co. bankers, London 1844, afterwards merged in London and Westminster bank 1864; chairman of the Irish famine committee of 1847; member of senate of univ. of London July 1850 to 1877; a great authority on finance, the Bank act of 1844 was chiefly based on his principles; cr. baron Overstone of Overstone and of Fotheringay, Northamptonshire 5 March 1850; author of Reflections on the causes and consequences of the pressure on the money market 1837; Further reflections on the currency and the action of the Bank of England 1837; A letter on the management of the Bank of England 1840; Remarks on the management of the circulation of the Bank of England and of the country issues 1840; Thoughts on the separation of the departments of the Bank of England 1844; Tracts and publications on metallic and paper currency 1858. _d._ 2 Carlton gardens, London 17 Nov. 1883. _bur._ Lockinge, Berks. 23 Nov.; will proved under £2,100,000 Dec. 1883. _Times 19 Nov. 1883 p._ 8, _cols._ 1, 3, _p._ 9, _col._ 3; _Graphic xxviii_ 560 (1883) _portrait_; _W. J. Lawson’s History of banking_ (2 _ed._ 1855) 232–34; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 525 (1883) _portrait_; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 130–47; _Manchester Guardian 20 Nov. 1883 p._ 8. OVERTON, CHARLES (6 son of John Overton 1763–1838, rector of St. Margaret’s and St. Crux, York). _b._ York 1805; assistant curate of Ch. Ch. Harrogate 1829; C. of Ronaldkirk, Yorkshire 1829–37; V. of Clapham, Yorkshire 1837–41; V. of Cottingham, near Hull 1841 to death; author of Cottage lectures, or the Pilgrim’s progress practically explained, 2 parts 1847–9; Cottage lectures, or the Lord’s Prayer practically explained 1848; The expository preacher, or St. Matthew’s gospel expounded, 2 vols. 1850; Ecclesia Anglicana 1853; The history of Cottingham 1861; The life of Joseph in twenty three lectures 1866. _d._ Cottingham 31 March 1889. _Memoir of rev. Charles Overton_ (1889). OVERWEG, ADOLF. _b._ Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. _d._ of fever near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. _Notice of recent discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg._ _By J. Hogg_ 1852; _Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi_ 130 (1851), _xxii_ 133 (1852), _xxiii p. cx_ (1853), _xxvi pp. clxi, clxii_ (1857); _Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv_ 19–24 (1887). OWDEN, SIR THOMAS SCAMBLER (youngest son of John Owden of Brighton). _b._ Cuckfield, Sussex 28 Oct. 1808; a merchant in City of London; common councilman for Bishopsgate ward 1845, alderman 12 May 1868 to death; sheriff of London 1870–1, lord mayor 1877–8; knighted at Windsor Castle 27 Nov. 1878; a member of the Innholders’ and Loriners’ companies; opened the new winter gardens at Blackpool, Lancs. 1878. _d._ Mulgrave house, Sutton, Surrey 9 Jany. 1889. _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_ (1884) 139–47; _Graphic xvi_ 436 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_ 444 (1877) _portrait_. OWEN, ANEURIN (only son of Wm. Owen, who took name of Pughe). _b._ 23 July 1792; studied the Chronicle of the Princes in the Red Book of Hergest at Jesus coll. Oxf. 1831; an assistant tithe comr. for England and Wales 1836; an assistant poor law comr.; a comr. for inclosure of commonable lands 1845; the adviser of the Record office upon all Welsh matters 1825 to death; won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod 1832 for the best Welsh essay on agriculture, the essay was published in the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, ed. by W. Jones 1839, pp. 153–201, and in a separate volume; edited Ancient chronicles of the princes of Wales as far as 1066, printed in Petrie and Sharpe’s Monumenta Historica Britannica (Record Commission 1848) pp. 841–55, reprinted and completed in Brut y Tywysogion, or The chronicle of the princes of Wales, ed. by J. Williams ab Ithel (Rolls Series 1860). _d._ Trosypare, near Denbigh 17 July