_Athenæum i_ 583 (1886).
OLLIFFE, SIR JOSEPH FRANCIS (son of Joseph Olliffe of Cork,
merchant). _b._ Cork 1808; educ. univ. of Paris, M.A. 1829,
M.D. 1840; began practice in Paris 1840; fellow of Anatomical
society of Paris; president of Paris Medical society; a knight
of the Legion of honour 1846, officer 1855; physician to British
embassy, Paris from March 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace
13 June 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; took part with count de Morny in
unremunerative building operations at Deauville, near Trouville.
_d._ 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 14 March 1869. _British
medical Journal 20 March 1869 p._ 274; _Reg. and mag. of biog.
April 1869 p._ 296.
OLLIVANT, ALFRED (son of Wm. Ollivant of Ashton-under-Lyne,
cotton spinner). _b._ Mosley st. Manchester 16 Aug. 1798; educ.
St. Paul’s school 1809–17, captain of the school; Campden
exhibitioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 1817; Perry exhibitioner 1819,
Craven scholar 1820, sixth wrangler and senior chancellor’s
medallist 1821; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1836;
fellow of Trin. coll. 1821; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1822;
vice-principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827–43;
prebendary of St. David’s 28 July 1829; R. of Llangeler,
Carmarthenshire 1831, vicar 1832–43; prebendary of Brecon 10
Nov. 1831; R. of Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire 1835–7; V. of
Kerry, Montgomeryshire 1836–43; regius professor of divinity at
Cambridge and R. of Somersham, Hunts. March 1843 to Nov. 1849;
bishop of Llandaff 20 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated at Lambeth
2 Dec; restored the cathedral and built, restored, or enlarged
about 170 churches; established the Church extension society;
member of the Old Testament revision company, which he had
suggested 1870; presented with his portrait in the town hall at
Cardiff 30 Nov. 1882; author of An analysis of the Hebrew text
of the history of Joseph 1828, 3 ed. 1836; Some account of the
condition of the fabric of Llandaff cathedral 1857, 2 ed. 1860;
and of upwards of 30 charges, letters, and sermons 1827–81. _d._
Bishop’s court, Llandaff 16 Dec. 1882. _bur._ in churchyard
of Llandaff cathedral 21 Dec., tomb with effigy in marble by
Armitstead, on north side of the altar steps. _J. Morgan’s Four
biographical sketches_ (1892) 1–60; _Church portrait journal i_
41 (1880) _portrait_; _Red Dragon iii_ 193 (1883) _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xv_ 376 (1849) _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 680 (1882) _portrait_.
OLMAR, stage name of James Chadwick. Performer on a
trapèze-swing; a walker head downwards with his feet in rings;
performed at the Alhambra palace, London in Nov. 1862; weighed
130 lbs.; his biceps, fore-arm, wrists, pectoral muscles and
muscles of his back were of great strength. _d._ 1 King st.
Chester road, Manchester 24 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Ardwick cemetery
27 Feb. _F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of natural history_, _3rd
series_, _2 ed. ii_ 92–6 (1868).
O’LOGHLEN, SIR COLMAN MICHAEL, 2 baronet (eld. son of sir
Michael O’Loghlen, 1 baronet 1789–1842). _b._ Dublin 20 Sept.
1819; B.A. univ. of Dublin 1840; admitted King’s inns 1838;
called to Irish bar 1840, went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov.
1852; chairman of Carlow quarter sessions 1856–9; chairman of
Mayo quarter sessions 1859–61; M.P. Clare 1863 to death; third
sergeant-at-law 1865, second sergeant 1866; judge advocate
general 16 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1870; P.C. 12 Dec. 1868; introduced
and carried the bill enabling Roman Catholics to hold the lord
chancellorship of Ireland. _d._ suddenly on board the mail-boat
while crossing from Holyhead to Kingstown 22 July 1877. _J. R.
O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 301–6.
OLPHERT, WYBRANTS (son of rev. John Olphert, _d._ 1851). _b._
1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; always resided on
his estates in Ireland, where he had a large number of small
tenants; in 1884 after formation of the Land league had to
evict 32 of his tenants; refusing to make large reductions in
his rents 1887 Father M’Fadden organised the ‘Plan of campaign’
and the evictions were resisted by cutting and barricading the
roads, loopholding the houses, and using pitchforks, stones and
boiling water against the bailiffs, the tenants eventually paid
up and were reinstated 1892. _found dead_ in his arm chair,
Ballyconnell house, co. Donegal 21 Sept. 1892.
O’MAHONY, JOHN FRANCIS. _b._ Kilbeheney, co. Limerick 1816;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; took part in Smith O’Brien’s attempted
insurrection 1848, fled to France, lived in Paris 1849–54, and
in New York 1854 to death; one of the founders of the Emmet
movement association about 1854; for a short time in a lunatic
asylum; col. of 69th regt. in U.S. of America; took a prominent
part in the Fenian movement from 1858; was head centre of
the Fenian brotherhood several years; published Foras feasa
ar Eirinn, The history of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D.,
translated from the original Gaelic and copiously annotated, New
York 1857. _d._ New York 7 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet.
near Dublin in Feb. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 579–80
(1888).
O’MALLEY, PETER FREDERIC (son of Charles O’Malley of the Lodge,
co. Mayo). _b._ 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, M.A. 1828;
barrister L.I. 2 May 1834; went Oxford circuit; migrated to
Middle Temple 1839, bencher 1850 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850;
leader of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Norwich April 1859
to death; contested Finsbury as a Conservative 16 Nov. 1868;
author of Religious liberty and the Indian proclamation 1859;
The articles, liturgy, and subscription 1865; To the electors
of the borough of Finsbury, two addresses 1868. _d._ 7 Lowndes
st. Belgrave sq. London 10 Dec. 1874. _Irish Law Times viii_ 649
(1874); _Law Times lviii_ 124 (1874).
O’MALLEY, SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (son of Owen O’Malley of
Borrishowle, co. Mayo). _b._ 26 Dec. 1779; created baronet 2
July 1804. _d._ Kilboyne house, Castlebar, Mayo 18 Aug. 1864.
_G.M. xvii_ 529 (1864).
O’MALLEY, THADEUS JOSEPH. _b._ Garryowen, near Limerick 1796;
a Roman Catholic minister, Philadelphia, U.S. of America,
but was suspended by bishop England 1825; assistant priest
to the cathedral in Marlborough st. Dublin under archbishop
Daniel Murray 1827; advocated a poor law for Ireland and a
system of national education; rector of R.C. university of
Malta, but dismissed by the government; started a newspaper in
Dublin entitled The social economist and another entitled The
Federalist, No. 1 Sept. 24, 1870, which ran to No. 31 April 22,
1871; tried to unite the Old Ireland and Young Ireland parties;
advocated home rule from 1870; author of A sketch of the state
of popular education in Holland, Prussia, Belgium and France,
2 ed. 1840; Home rule on the basis of federalism 1873. _d._ 1
Henrietta st. Dublin 2 Jany. 1877. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. _The
works of the right rev. J. England, bishop of Charleston v_
187–202 (1849).
O’MEARA, KATHLEEN (dau. of Dennis O’Meara of Tipperary). _b._
Dublin 1839; resided in Paris most of her life, where she was
correspondent of The Tablet newspaper many years; author of
the following works under pseudonym of Grace Ramsay, A woman’s
trials, 3 vols. 1867; Iza’s story, 3 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1877; The
bells of the sanctuary, Agnes 1871; The bells of the sanctuary,
A daughter of St. Dominick 1873; A salon in the last days of the
Empire 1873; Thomas Grant, first bishop of Southwark 1874, 2 ed.
1886; The battle of Connemara 1878, 2 ed. 1878; Are you my wife,
3 vols. 1878; translated Henri Perreyve and his counsels to the
sick 1881; author under own name of The Bells of the sanctuary,
Mary Benedicta, etc. 1879; The blind apostle 1890; Frederic
Ozanam, his life and works 1876, 2 ed. 1878; Madame Mohl, her
salon and her friends 1885, 2 ed. 1886; Narka, 2 vols. 1888; The
old house in Picardy 1887; One of God’s heroines, Mother Mary
Teresa Kelly 1878; Queen by right divine and other tales 1885;
The ven. Jean Baptiste Viauney 1891. _d._ at residence of Father
Faber, Paris 10 Nov. 1888. _Irish Monthly Oct. 1889 pp._ 527–36;
_Tablet 17 Nov. 1888 p._ 789.
OMMANNEY, HENRY MANATON. _b._ 1775; entered navy June 1787;
captain 22 Jany. 1806; retired R.A. 28 June 1838, placed on the
active list 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. _d._ 11
West Emma place, Stonehouse 22 March 1857.
OMMANNEY, SIR JOHN ACWORTH (eld. son of rear admiral Cornthwaite
Ommanney, _d._ 1801). _b._ 1773; entered navy 1786; captain 16
Oct. 1800; flag captain to sir Erasmus Gower on the Newfoundland
station 1804–6; commanded the Albion 1825–30; served at battle
of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827, for which created C.B. 1828, and
knight of the orders of St. Louis, St. Vladimir and the
Redeemer of Greece; R.A. 22 July 1830; knighted at St. James’s
palace 20 May 1835; commanded the Lisbon station 1837–40, and
the Mediterranean station 1840–1; K.C.B. 20 July 1838; V.A. 23
Nov. 1841, admiral 4 May 1849; commander-in-chief at Devonport
17 April 1851 to 1 May 1854. _d._ Warblington house, Havant 8
July 1855.
O’NEILL, JOHN BRUCE RICHARD O’NEILL, 3 Viscount (younger son of
1 viscount O’Neill 1740–98). _b._ Shane’s castle, co. Antrim
30 Dec. 1780; ensign Coldstream guards 10 Oct. 1799; lieut.
col. Chasseurs Britanniques 21 April 1808 to 29 March 1810;
lieut. col. 19 dragoons 29 March 1810 to 11 July 1816; captain
Coldstream guards 11 July 1816 to 27 May 1825; M.G. 27 May
1825; general 20 June 1854; M.P. co. Antrim 1802–41; succeeded
his brother as 3 viscount 25 March 1841; constable of Dublin
castle May 1811 to death; vice-admiral of the coast of Ulster; a
representative peer of Ireland Feb. 1842 to death. _d._ Shane’s
Castle 12 Feb. 1855.
O’NEILL, WILLIAM O’NEILL, 1 Baron (eld. son of rev. Edward
Chichester, R. of Kilmore, Armagh, _d._ June 1840). _b._
Culdaff house, co. Donegal 3 March 1813; educ. Foyle college,
Londonderry, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1836; C. of
Kilmore 1837; prebendary of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1848–59; succeeded
to the O’Neill estates 1855, when he took name of O’Neill in
lieu of that of Chichester; acted frequently as organist in the
Dublin cathedrals; composer of church music, glees, and songs;
composed the poetry and music of an ode when prince Arthur
visited Shane’s Castle 1869; created baron O’Neill of Shane’s
Castle in the county of Antrim 18 April 1868; a great supporter
of the disestablished church; a member of the Victoria institute
1875; author of Friendly suggestions on Christian consistency,
Exeter 1847; The christian sabbath 1859; Unchanging love, or
the final perseverance of all believers in Christ Jesus 1860;
Absolution and the prayer book 1871; Essays and addresses on the
truths of the christian religion 1886; composer of Let others
quaff the racy wine, a glee 1881. _d._ Shane’s Castle 17 April