O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work_ (1894), _memoir pp._ 13–46
_portrait_; _E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets_ (1887) 284, 440;
_A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii_ 171–92 (1893); _H. B.
Forman’s Our living poets_ (1871) 508–12; _T. H. Ward’s English
poets_, _2 ed. iv_ 629–32 (1883).
O’SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL. _b._ 1797; called to Irish bar 1828;
Q.C. 16 June 1859. _d._ Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept.
1884.
O’SHAUGHNESSY, SIR WILLIAM BROOKE, afterwards Sir William
O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick).
_b._ Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830;
entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant
surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major
1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta;
laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847,
director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed
the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854;
connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired
1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov.
1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A.
Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases
1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842;
The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta