NUTT, DAVID (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and
Hanbury’s brewery, London). _b._ 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields,
London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in
a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet
st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death;
bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st.
Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern
books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred
writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of
theological books in foreign languages 1857. _d._ 270 Strand,
London 28 Nov. 1863. _bur._ at Norwood cemet. _G.M. xvi_ 126
(1864).
NUTTALL, JOHN, known as Soldier. _b._ Barnsley 1835; height 5
ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won
first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March
1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds,
Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side,
Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize
in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah
Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground
9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb.
1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter
paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. _d._ Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. _Illust.
sporting news v_ 57 (1866) _portrait_; _Bell’s Life in London 30
Oct. 1875 p._ 4.
NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs.
printer). _b._ Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786;
brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March
1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries
in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri
1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper
California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor
of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England
1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death;
author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue
of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A
journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia
1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany,
Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States
and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees
not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d.
Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. _Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii_ 75,
_&c._ (1889); _Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall_; _Proc. of
Linnæan Soc._ (1860) 26–9; _Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology
of United States_ (1891) _pp. v–vii_.
NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of
the Westminster dispensary). _b._ London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign
29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856,
captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut.
col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on
special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in
the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he
organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan,
the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at
Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug.
1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian
expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug.
1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to
April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April
1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a
brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for
the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry
brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry
charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in
battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880;
L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. _A.
Forbes’s Afghan wars_ (1892) 299.
O
OAKELEY, FREDERICK (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1
baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). _b._ the Abbey house,
Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820,
B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor
1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select
preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the
univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s
chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced
ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim
to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for
doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was
suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury
30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept.
1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel,
Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham
31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware,
Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St.
John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to
death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons,
preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and
ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856,
a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of
the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes
on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission
1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other
works. _d._ 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880.
_Reminiscences of Oxford_, _edited by L. M. Q. Couch_ (1892)
301–45; _A.R._ (1845) 95–6; _C. Hodgson’s Report of the case
Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley_ (1845).
OAKELEY, SOULDEN. _b._ 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June
1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. _d._ Oakeley, Shropshire
17 Oct. 1856.
OAKES, CHARLES HENRY (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry
Oakes, 2 baronet 1756–1827). _b._ 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5
May 1837; edited Who’s Who 1851 to death. _d._ 16 May 1864.
OAKES, JOHN WRIGHT. _b._ Sproston house, near Middlewich,
Cheshire 9 July 1820; exhibited fruit-pieces at Liverpool
academy 1839 &c., member of the academy, hon. secretary several
years; a landscape painter about 1843 to death; exhibited 68
pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 11 at Suffolk st. 1847–80;
resided in London 1859 to death; associate of Institute of
painters in water-colours 1874, resigned 1875; A.R.A. 2 April
1876; honorary M.R.S.A. Nov. 1883. _d._ Leam house, 34 Addison
road, Kensington 8 July 1887. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _I.L.N.
lxviii_ 469 (1876) _portrait_; _Graphic xiii_ 462, 476 (1876)
_portrait_.
OAKES, THOMAS GEORGE ALEXANDER. _b._ 2 June 1827; cornet 12
lancers 16 Jany. 1846, lieut. col. 5 March 1861 to 25 March
1871; M.G. 17 May 1869; inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry 1
April 1873–7; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ Farnham 22 Aug. 1878.
OAKEY, JOHN. _b._ 1813; glass paper manufacturer at 3 Manor
place, Walworth, London 1833, subsequently manufacturer of
emery, black lead, emery and glass cloths, glass, emery and
flint papers, the Wellington knife polish and knife boards, and
other specialties for household use; erected the Wellington
mills, Westminster bridge road 1874, where he carried on
business to his death, with his son Herbert Oakey as J. Oakey
and sons; gained prize medals at Philadelphia 1876, Boston 1883,
and the Crystal palace 1884. _d._ St. John’s, Victoria road,
Surbiton 10 Jany. 1887.
OAKLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of
Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) _b._ Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ.
Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850;
scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A.
1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery
in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to
Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden,
London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its
history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince
Albert Victor 1864. _d._ Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. _G.M.
xix_ 526, 651 (1865); _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._ 7, _25 Sept. p._
12.
OAKLEY, HERBERT WILLIAM. _b._ Taunton Jany. 1848; assistant
to Boyd-Dawkins, professor of natural history in Owen’s
college, Manchester 1870–7; in the Cape mounted police 1877–9;
distinguished himself in the Moirosi campaign; assistant
curator of colonial museum, Cape Town Sept. 1879 to death; with
W. B. Dawkins, F.R.S. he wrote the sections on proboscidea,
hyracoidea, and ungulata in P. M. Duncan’s Cassell’s Natural
history, vol. ii, 273 et seq. (1878). _d._ Cape Town 14 Nov.
1884.
OAKLEY, JOHN (son of John Oakley of Blackheath, Kent, land
agent). _b._ Frindsbury near Rochester 28 Oct. 1834; educ.
Rochester cathedral school and at Hereford gram. sch.; scholar
of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1852; president of the Oxford Union
1856; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1881; C. of St. Luke’s, Berwick
st. London 1858–9; C. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1859–67;
secretary to London diocesan board of education 1864–8; V. of
St. Saviour’s, Hoxton 1867–81; declined bishopric of Nelson,
New Zealand 1865; dean of Carlisle 23 Nov. 1881, installed 6
Jany. 1882; dean of Manchester Nov. 1883 to death; wrote in the
Manchester Guardian under name of Vicesimus a memoir of Henry
Nutcombe Oxenham and a series of papers on Dean Burgon’s Lives
of twelve good men 1888–9; author of The Christian aspect and
application of the decalogue 1865; The conscience clause, its
history 1866. _d._ Deganwy, near Llandudno 10 June 1891. _bur._
Chiselhurst, stained glass memorial window erected in south
aisle of Manchester cathedral. _Health Journal (Manchester)
June 1887 pp._ 11–13 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 21 June 1890 p._ 774
_portrait_; _Pictorial World 21 June 1890 p._ 788 _portrait_.
OAKLEY, OCTAVIUS. _b._ Bermondsey, London 27 April 1800; placed
with a cloth manufacturer near Leeds; a portrait painter at
Derby about 1825, removed to Leamington 1836; came to London
about 1841; associate of Society of painters in water-colours
1842, member 1844, exhibited 210 landscapes and groups of
gipsies, which gained him the sobriquet of Gipsy Oakley;
exhibited 30 water-colour portraits at the R.A. 1826–60; there
was a sale of his works at Christie’s March 1869. _d._ 7
Chepstow villas, Bayswater, London 1 March 1867. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii_
268–71 (1891).
OAKLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1818; governor of Somerset county gaol,
Taunton 1850 to death; author of Observations on constabulary
and police 1853; Observations on the grand jury system 1853.
_d._ the gaol, Upper High st. Taunton 6 March 1880.
OASTLER, RICHARD (youngest child of Robert Oastler of Leeds,
steward of the Fixby estates, Huddersfield, _d._ July 1820).
_b._ St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 20 Dec. 1789; educ. the Moravian
school at Fulneck; articled to Charles Watson, architect at
Wakefield, 4 years; a commission agent, failed 1820; steward
to Thomas Thornhill at Fixby hall 5 Jany. 1821, discharged for
opposing the poor-law comrs. 28 May 1838; began his attempt to
reform the factories by a letter to the Leeds Mercury entitled
‘Yorkshire Slavery’ 29 Sept. 1830; became known as ‘The factory
king’; published letters on the ten-hours day and similar
subjects in some of the unstamped periodicals; confined more
than three years in the Fleet prison, from 9 Dec. 1840, for
a debt of £2,000; published The Fleet Papers, being letters
to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, of Riddlesworth, from Richard
Oastler his prisoner in the Fleet 1841; an Oastler liberation
fund was started 1842, released from prison Feb. 1844; made a
public entry into Huddersfield 20 Feb. 1844; agitated for a ten
hours’ day 1844–7; edited The Home, weekly paper 3 May 1851 to
June 1855; edited with rev. J. R. Stephens a weekly journal
entitled the Ashton Chronicle; lived at South Hill cottage,
Guildford 1845 to death; author of Vicarial tithes, Halifax
1827; The Huddersfield dissenter stark staring mad, because the
mask has fallen 1835; The devil-to-do amongst the dissenters
in Huddersfield 1835; Slavery in Yorkshire 1835; More work for
the Leeds new thief catchers 1836; Damnation, eternal damnation
to the fiend begotten coarser food new poor law 1837; Brougham
versus Brougham on the new poor law 1847; Factory legislation