OAKELEY, see also OAKLEY.
OAKELEY, HENRY, second son of Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart., EICS Madras, Governor of Madras, and Helena, only dau. of Robert Beatson, Kilrie, Fifeshire ; b. 6 Dec 1787 ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 14 Jul 1802 ; Assistant to Magistrate and Register, Rangpur 11 Mar 1807 ; Assistant to Collector, Twenty-four Parganas 20 Oct 1807 ; Register, Provincial Court of Calcutta 29 Aug 1808 ; Register, Zillah of Jessore 27 Feb 1810 ; Assistant Judge, Zillah of Jessore 22 Mar 1811 ; Officiating Magistrate, Jessore 6 Sep 1811 ; Acting Judge and magistrate, Jessore 1813 ; Judge and Magistrate, Jessore, and Acting Judge and Magistrate, Hooghly 13 May 1814 ; Judge and Magistrate, Hooghly 9 Feb 1816 ; Second Judge of Provincial Court, Murshidabad 2 Mar 1826 ; m. 17 May 1819 Laura, youngest dau. of Hon.François Ravier, Governor of Chandernagore ; d. at Monghyr 3 May 1826.
OAKELEY, SIR HERBERT, BART., brother of Henry Oakeley (qv) ; b. 10 Feb 1791 ; in school lists May and Oct 1803 ; left 1805 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Apr 1807, Canoneer Student 1807-26 ; 1stcl.Classics 1810 ; BA 1811 ; MA 1813 ; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1814 (Oxford), priest 19 Mar 1815 (London) ; Domestic Chaplain to Right Rev.William Howley DD, Bishop of London 1814-26 ; Prebendary of Lichfield 13 Apr 1816 – Jan 1832 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 11 Oct 1816 ; Prebendary of Worcester 28 Dec 1817 – Mar 1830 ; Vicar of Ealing, Middlesex 22 Jul 1822-34 ; succ. brother as 3rdbaronet 30 Jun 1829 ; Dean and Rector of Bocking, Essex, from 1834 ; Archdeacon of Colchester from Jul 1841 ; refused Bishopric of Gibraltar 1842 ; issued numerous short poems for private circulation ; m. 5 Jun 1826 Atholl Keturah, dau. of Very Rev.Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley, Dean of Bocking, Essex ; d. 27 Mar 1845. ODNB.
OAKELEY, JOHN, second son of William Oakeley (qv), and his second wife ; bapt. 4 Apr 1683 ; adm. ; KS 1698 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Mar 1699/1700 ; BA 1703/4 ; MA 1707 ; Perne Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge 13 May 1709 ; adm.Middle Temple 4 Jun 1708, called to bar 27 May 1715 ; d. 18 Feb 1717/8.
OAKELEY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Richard Oakeley MP, Oakeley, Shropshire, and Middle Temple, London, barrister, Receiver General and Solicitor to Westminster Abbey, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Edward Combes, Fetter Lane, London ; b. ; at school in 1648 (Chapter Muniments 10699) ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1651 ; adm.Middle Temple 4 Mar 1650/1 ; MP Bishop’s Castle 1659 – Jul 1679, and from 1690 ; High Sheriff, Shropshire 1660 ; m. 1st, (settlement dated 13 Nov 1663) Mary, dau. of Walter Waring, Owlbury, Shropshire ; m.2nd, 24 Mar 1680/1 Barbara, dau. of John Walcot MP, Walcot, Shropshire ; d. 28 Jan 1694/5.
OAKES, ARTHUR EDMUND, brother of Augustus Frederick Oakes (qv) ; b. 25 Jun 1817 ; adm. 30 Jun 1829 (G) ; left Apr 1831 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1832 ; Madras 7th Light Cavalry 1833 ; d. at Bangalore, Madras 18 Oct 1834.
OAKES, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, fifth son of Thomas Oakes, EICS Madras, Senior member, Board of Revenue, Madras, and his second wife Maria Lucy, sister of Frederick Gahagan (qv) ; b. 15 Jun 1808 ; adm. 31 May 1820 (G) ; left 1823 ; Addiscombe Coll.1824-5 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1824 ; 2nd Lieut., Artillery 16 Jun 1825 ; Lieut., 28 Sep 1826 ; Brevet Capt., 16 Jun 1840 ; Capt., 5 Mar 1844 ; Assist. Adj.-Gen., 5 Feb 1841 [check] ; Brevet Maj., 11 Nov 1851 ; m.1st, at Madras, 26 Aug 1833 Fanny, dau. of Henry Dalby, Leicester ; m.2nd, at Madras, 25 Feb 1845 Charlotte Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Berdmore ; d. of sunstroke during capture of Rangoon, Burma 12 Apr 1852.
OAKLEY, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715-7.
OAKLEY, HENRY HERBERT, son of Rev.Charles Edward Oakley, Rector of St.Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, and Lady Georgiana Maria Louisa Moreton, dau. of Henry George Francis Moreton, 2ndEarl of Ducie ; b. 8 Oct 1863 ; adm. 24 Jan 1878 (R) ; left Mar 1879 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Jun 1881, matr.Mich.1881, but did not graduate ; m. 7 Dec 1889 Aimée Evelyn (afterwards Lady Dawson GBE), dau. of Gordon Pirie, Chateau de Varennes, France ; d. 28 Dec 1899.
OATHWAITE, PETER ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) 10 Jan 1714/5 ; in school list 1717.
O’BRIEN, see also OBRION.
O’BRIEN, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, brother of James Thomas O’Brien (qv) ; b. 13 Jul 1850 ; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (G) ; QS 1865 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1869, matr. 19 May 1869 ; BA 1873 ; MA 1878 ; ordained deacon 1877, priest 1879 (both Gloucester & Bristol) ; Curate, Iron Acton, Gloucs., 1877-84 ; Rector of Walton d’Eiville, Warwicks., 1884-98 ; Rector of Charwelton, Northants 10 Nov 1898 – Oct 1920 ; m. 17 Jun 1884 Edith Christina, youngest dau. of Edward Burges, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucs., solicitor ; d. 23 Jan 1927.
O’BRIEN, SIR GEORGE THOMAS MICHAEL, brother of James Thomas O’Brien (qv) ; b. 5 Nov 1844 ; at Marlborough Coll. Feb 1856 – Easter 1858 ; adm. 3 Jun 1858 (G) ; QS 1859 ; rowed v. Eton 1 Aug 1862 ; gave evidence before Public Schools Commission 3 Feb 1863 (Parliamentary Papers, 1864, xxi, 495-504) ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1863 (with Triplett), adm.pens. 3 Jun 1863, matr. Mich.1864, but did not graduate ; Ceylon Civil Service 1867 ; Police Magistrate, Harrispattu Jan 1869 ; acting Second Assistant Colonial Secretary Feb 1870, Principal Assistant Sep 1876 ; Treasurer, Ceylon Aug 1886-90, Controller of the Revenue 1890-1 ; Colonial Secretary, Cyprus 1891-2, Hong Kong 1892-5 ; Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, and Consul-General, Western Pacific Islands, 1897-1902 ; CMG 24 May 1889 ; KCMG 26 May 1894 ; benefactor ; d. 12 Apr 1906.
O’BRIEN, HON.JAMES, third son of William O’Brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin (I), Governor of Jamaica, and his first wife Lady Margaret Boyle, third dau. of Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (I) ; b. ; at school under Busby (Alum.Dub.) ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.fellow commoner 8 Jun 1685, aged 14 ; BA 1687 ; d.unm. on voyage home from Jamaica 1691.
O’BRIEN, JAMES THOMAS, second son of Right Rev.James Thomas O’Brien DD, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, and Ellen, second dau. of Right Hon.Edward Pennefather PC (I), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland ; b. 19 Aug 1841 ; adm. Jan 1855 (G) ; QS 1856 ; left 1859 ; Ensign, 43rd Foot 10 Jul 1863 ; Lieut., 29 Jul 1865 ; Capt., 18 Oct 1873 ; Maj., 19 Aug 1881 ; Paymaster, 21 Dec 1881 ; retd. 19 Sep 1894 ; served in New Zealand War 1864-5 ; d. 17 Oct 1894.
O’BRIEN, JOSEPH FRANCO, only son of Michael O’Brien, and Leah, only dau. of Abram Haim Franco, London, merchant ; bapt.St.Luke, Chelsea 16 Jun 1793 (as Joseph O’Brien) ; in school list 1801 ; left 1803.
O’BRIEN, WILLIAM, third son of Henry O’Brien, Stonehall, co.Clare, and Blatherwycke, Northants, and Susannah, dau. of William Stafford, Blatherwycke, Northants ; b. Dublin ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1729/30 ; Min.Can.1734 ; KS 1736 ; left 1740 ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, adm.min.pens. 15 Jun 1742 ; ordained deacon 25 Sep 1743 (Lincoln, lit.dim. from Peterborough) ; d.unm. (will proved PC Dublin 1752).
OBRION, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1721 ; in under school list 1723.
O’CAROL, see O’CARROL.
O’CARROL, SIR DANIEL, BART., eldest son of Lieut.-Gen.Sir Daniel O’Carrol, Bart., and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Jervoise MP, Herriard, Hampshire ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) May 1730 ; left 1736 ; succ. father as 2nd baronet 4 Nov 1750 ; Capt., Ligonier’s Horse May 1752 [but not in Army List 1755 ?] ; m. ; d. at Dublin 30 Jan 1758.
O’CARROL, SIR JOHN, BART., brother of Sir Daniel O’Carrol, Bart. (qv) ; b. 14 Feb 1721/2 ; adm. (aged 8) May 1730 ; left 1736 ; succ.brother as 3rd baronet 30 Jan 1758 ; m. 8 May 1751 Henrietta, only dau. of Lieut.-Gen.Henry Whitley, Col., 9th Dragoons ; d. at Hannover, Germany 6 May 1798.
OCKLEY, HENRY ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1625, adm.scholar 1626, matr.Easter 1626 ; BA 1629/30.
O’CONNOR, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Nov 1742 ; left 1743.
ODER, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1720 ; left 1720.
O’FARRELL, HORACE HANDLEY, eldest son of Henry Handley O’Farrell, Douro Place, Kensington, Middlesex, civil servant in Inland Revenue Department, and Elizabeth Laws, dau. of John Parminter, Secretary, Sheerness Dockyard ; b. 12 Feb 1854 ; adm. 23 Sep 1869 ; left May 1872 (with Triplett) ; adm.Middle Temple 23 Jan 1875 ; Indian Civil Service, Madras 1873 ; arrived in India 23 Nov 1875 ; Assistant to Collector and Magistrate, Tinnevelly 1876 ; Agent to Governor, Vizagapatam 1888 ; District and Sessions Judge, Trichinopoly 1891, Collector and Magistrate 1894, Officiating Judge of High Court 1899 ; retd. Mar 1902 ; author, The Franco-German War Indemnity and its Economic Results, 1913 ; m. 14 Jul 1884 Annie Catherine, sister of Robert Clifford Lloyd Cross (qv) ; d. 12 Apr 1923.
O’FARRELL, PHILIP CULVERTHORPE HANDLEY, brother of Horace Handley O’Farrell (qv) ; b. 31 Aug 1858 ; adm. 26 Sep 1872 ; left Nov 1875 ; stockbroker (1881 Census) ; d. at Auckland, New Zealand 27 Feb 1884.
OGDEN, — ; b. ; at school 1793.
OGDEN, FREDERICK WILLIAM MORDAUNT, son of Edward Ogden, Blackpool, Lancs., cotton spinner, and his second wife Margaret Cameron, second dau. of Eldred Mordaunt, Liverpool, Lancs., master mariner ; b. Liverpool (1881 Census) 1 Oct 1868 ; adm. 24 Jan 1879 (G) ; left Aug 1881 ; subsequently at Malvern Coll. (left 1884) ; latterly living at 129 Bedford Street, Liverpool ; d. 3 Jan 1930.
OGILBY, MICHAEL ; b. ; at school by Jun 1654, age and parentage not stated (WAM 43112). [Presumably Michael Ogelbey, son of James Ogelbey and Margaret — , bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 6 Oct 1641 (IGI)] [note Michael Ogilby, New Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 Mar 1656/7, BA 1659, ordained priest 19 Sep 1660 (Chichester for London), Rector of St.Martin Orgar, London 1662 – May 1666, Vicar of West Wycombe, Bucks., Jan 1667/8 (as MA) – Aug 1673, Vicar of St.Peter, Barnstaple, Devon 9 Jan 1673/4 – Oct 1674 ; Rector of Bideford, Devon, from 30 Oct 1674 ; Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles II 24 Dec 1669 – Oct 1671, Chaplain in Ordinary Oct 1671 ; d. 26 Feb 1699/1700]
OGILVEY, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1739/40 ; left 1742. [probably George Ogilvie, commissioned Army Aug 1745, Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 24 Feb 1749/50 ; Lieut. and Capt., 3rd Foot Guards 19 Feb 1757 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. 14 Jan 1763 ; 2nd Maj., 1776 ; 1st Maj., 12 Aug 1777-81 ; Major-Gen., Mar 1779 (not in Army List 1790) ; served in American War of Independence 1776-7 ; m. 12 Apr 1753 Maria Rebecca Barbara, dau. of John Bladwell, Swannington, Norfolk, ”an eminent upholsterer in Bow Street, Covent Garden” (London Evening Post 21 Apr 1753) ; will proved PCC 31 Oct 1798, as of Swannington, Norfolk] [his father, George Ogilvie, who served 3rd Foot Guards 1714-45, Capt. and Lieut.-Col., d. at Margate, Kent, Jul 1745 “as he was going to Ostend with the last draught”, will proved PCC 3 Aug 1745, of St.Margaret’s, Westminster]
OGILVIE, CHARLES, son of Charles Ogilvie MP, London and South Carolina, merchant and plantation owner, and Mary, dau. of James Michie, Chief Justice of South Carolina ; b. 1766 ; adm. 10 Oct 1776 ; left 1779 ; merchant, Calcutta ; d.unm. 1794. [EICS Bengal ?]
OGILVIE, JOHN ALEXANDER, brother of Charles Ogilvie (qv) ; b. 1767 ; adm. 10 Oct 1776 ; left 1784 ; of Richfield plantation, South Carolina (sold 1804) and of Mount Pleasant plantation, South Carolina (purchased 1790, sold 1799) ; subsequently of Tanhurst Park, Wotton, Surrey ; m. 1790 Eliza, dau. of Spencer Man, St Augustine’s, Florida ; d. 20 May 1827.
OGILVIE, SIR WILLIAM, BART., eldest son of Sir William Ogilvie, Bart., Boyne, Banffshire, and Christian, dau. of Rev.John Patison, Minister of Bristo Street United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh ; b. 28 May 1810 ; adm. 12 Jan 1824 ; succ.father as 9th baronet 8 Jun 1825 ; left Whitsun 1826 ; Edinburgh Military Coll. ; Ensign, 16th Foot 11 Apr 1831 ; retd. 28 Mar 1834 ; emigrated to New Zealand ; m. 27 Oct 1838 Augusta Porter, youngest dau. of James Grange, Senior Clerk, Treasury ; d. at Christchurch, New Zealand 20 Feb 1861.
OGILVY, ANGUS, third son of David Ogilvy, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Eliza Anne Harris, dau. of Abercromby Dick (qv) ; b. 25 Jan 1855 ; adm. from Dulwich Coll. 24 Sep 1868 ; left Dec 1869 ; went to King’s Coll.Sch. ; an indigo planter, Bihar, India 1875-84 ; Manager, Court of Wards, Bengal 1884-1917 ; VD for service with Bihar Light Horse ; m. 15 Nov 1886 his cousin Rosa Serena, dau. of Abercromby Robert Dick, Middle Temple, barrister ; d. 8 Feb 1928.
OGILVY, DAVID ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1720/1 ; in under school list 1722.
OGILVY-GRANT, LEWIS ALEXANDER, 5TH EARL OF SEAFIELD (S), son of Sir James Grant, Bart. (qv) ; b. 22 Mar 1767 ; adm. 26 Jun 1780 ; Edinburgh Univ. 1784-6 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 1783 ; adm.advocate 20 Jan 1789 ; MP Elginshire 1790-6 ; suffered mental breakdown 1791 and took no further part in public life ; succ. father as 9th baronet 8 Feb 1811 and cousin as 5th Earl of Seafield (S) 5 Oct 1811, assuming additional surname of Ogilvy ; FRS (Ed) 23 Jun 1788 ; d. unm. 26 Oct 1840.
OGLE, — ; b. ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (third form).
OGLE, CYRIL, brother of John Ogle (qv) ; b. 19 Apr 1861 ; adm. 31 Mar 1875 ; left May 1880 (with Triplett) ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 May 1880 ; BA 1884 ; MA 1890 ; MB BCh 1890 ; MD 1906 ; St.George’s Hospital ; LRCP MRCS 1888 ; MRCP 1891 ; FRCP 1899 ; practised in London ; Assistant Physician, St.George’s Hospital 1897, Physician 1904-26, Consulting Physician from 1926 ; Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps (TF) 2 Dec 1908 ; attached 4th London Base Hospital in 1914-18 War ; d. unm. 21 Feb 1931.
OGLE, GEORGE REYNOLDS, brother of John Ogle (qv) ; b. 7 Aug 1863 ; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (R) ; left Dec 1879 ; living at Invercargill, New Zealand, in 1900, when declared bankrupt ; d. 4 Jan 1928.
OGLE, JAMES AMBROSE, son of James Adey Ogle MD, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford Univ., and Sarah, fourth dau. of Jeston Homfray, Broadwaters, Kidderminster, Worcs. ; b. 23 Oct 1824 ; adm. 9 Apr 1836 ((G) ; KS 1837 ; left 1841 ; Brasenose Coll., Oxford, matr. 18 May 1842 ; BA 1846 ; MA 1849 ; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1849 (both Gloucester & Bristol) ; Curate, Icomb, Gloucs., 1848-51, Writtle, Essex 1851, Begbroke, Oxfordshire 1853-5, Wetheringsett, Suffolk 1855-6 ; Vicar of Sedgeford, Norfolk 1858-74 ; Rector of Southmere with Sedgeford, Norfolk, from 1874 ; m. 18 Jun 1856 Henrietta Agneta, fourth dau. of Hon. and Very Rev.George Pellew DD, Dean of Norwich ; d. 20 Feb 1900.
OGLE, JOHN, eldest son of John William Ogle MD FRCP FSA, Cavendish Square, London, and Elizabeth, second dau. of Albert Smith, Sheffield, Yorks., solicitor ; b. 23 Feb 1855 ; adm. 16 Apr 1868 ; left May 1873 (with Triplett) ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1874 ; BA 1877 ; MA 1880 ; adm.Inner Temple 24 Nov 1876, called to bar 25 Jun 1879 ; South-Eastern Circuit ; Revising Barrister 1902 ; m. 30 Sep 1886 Ethel Laborde, second dau. of Arthur Goodchild MRCS LSA, Little Waltham, Essex ; d. 31 Mar 1908.
OGLE, THOMAS, third son of Samuel Ogle MP (I), Dublin, Commissioner of Revenue (I), and his second wife Ursula, widow of Altham Annesley, 1st Baron Altham (I), and dau. of Sir Robert Markham, Bart. ; bapt. 4 Feb 1713/4 ; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1727 ; in school list 1727/8 (fifth form) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 May 1732, aged 18, scholar 12 May 1732, matr.1734 ; BA 1735/6.
O’GRADY, STANDISH DARBY, 2ND VISCOUNT GUILLAMORE (I), eldest son of Standish O’Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore (I) PC (I), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (I), and Katherine, second dau. of John Thomas Waller MP (I), Castletown, co.Limerick ; b. 26 Dec 1792 ; adm. ; left 1809 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.fellow commoner 4 Jul 1809 ; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 21 Mar 1811 ; Lieut., 6 Aug 1812 ; Capt., 20 Jul 1815 ; half-pay 25 May 1816 ; 18th Light Dragoons 22 Jul 1819 ; half-pay 10 Nov 1821 ; Maj., unattached, half-pay 29 Oct 1825 ; 24th Foot 1 Feb 1827 ; Lieut.-Col., unattached, half-pay 14 Apr 1829 ; Col. and ADC to Queen Victoria 29 Jul 1842 ; commanded troop of 7th Light Dragoons in skirmish with French Lancers at Genappe 17 Jun 1815, and served at battle of Waterloo the following day ; MP Co.Limerick 1820-6, 1830-4 ; succ.father as 2nd Viscount Guillamore (I) 21 Apr 1840 ; m. 16 Oct 1828 Gertrude Jane, eldest dau. of Hon.Berkeley Thomas Paget MP, and niece of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv) ; d. 22 Jul 1848. ODNB (s.v.father).
O’GRADY, HON.THOMAS, brother of Standish Darby O’Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore (qv) ; b. 20 Feb 1810 ; adm. 20 Feb 1823 (G) ; left Dec 1825 ; Ensign, 15th Foot 30 Dec 1826 ; Lieut., half-pay, unattached 24 Nov 1829 ; 74th Foot 3 Dec 1829 ; Capt., 3 Oct 1834 ; Maj., 10 Jul 1846 ; retd. 14 Mar 1851 ; m. 21 Jan 1856 Maria de la Soledad Isabel Sofia, only dau. of Francis Leeson Ball, Secretary of Legation, Buenos Aires ; d. 22 Jan 1882.
O’HARA, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles O’Hara MP (I), Nymphsfield, co.Sligo, Commissioner of Accounts (I), a trusted friend and correspondent of Edmund Burke, and Lady Mary Carmichael, dau. of James Carmichael, 2nd Earl of Hyndford (S) ; b. 26 Apr 1746 ; at school under Markham (Steward of Anniversary Dinner 1771, as “Charles O’Hara, Esquire”), with John Cleaver (qv) as his private tutor (see entry for John Cleaver (qv), and see also R.J.S.Hoffman, Edmund Burke, New York Agent, 1956, 285, 309, 312) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Nov 1763 ; BA 1767 ; MA 4 Dec 1771 ; adm.Middle Temple 19 Oct 1765 ; called to bar, Kings’ Inns, Dublin 1770 ; LLD Trinity Coll.Dublin 1777 ; of Nymphsfield, co.Sligo ; MP (I) Dungannon 1776-83, Co.Sligo 1783-1800 ; MP Co.Sligo from 1801 ; Lord Commissioner of Treasury (I) Apr 1806-7 ; Governor, co.Sligo, from 1784 ; High Sheriff, co.Sligo 1785-6 ; m. 1780 Margaret, dau. of John Cookson MD, Leeds, Yorks ; d. 19 Sep 1822. [Russell Barker and Stenning identify the Steward of the 1771 Anniversary Dinner as Gen. Charles O’Hara (d.1802, ODNB), but the Steward is described as “Charles O’Hara, Esquire”, without military rank being stated ; General O’Hara was abroad as Governor of Senegambia at that time ; and if General O’Hara had been at the school, he would have been at school under Nicoll but his name does not appear in Nicoll’s admission register]
O’HARA, JAMES ; b. ; at school under Markham (Hickey, Memoirs, ii, 199, where he is described as the son of “an Admiral”, in which case he would have been a son of Rear-Adm.Patrick O’Hara, Royal Navy) ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 2 Oct 1765 ; retd. 23 Nov 1769 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1768 ; Ensign 1 Oct 1769 ; Lieut., 13 Dec 1769 ; 15th Native Infantry 1 Aug 1770 ; Capt., 7 Dec 1778 ; distinguished himself at capture of Pondicherry 1778 ; d. at Rajahmundry 5 Apr 1785, aged 35.
O’HARA, WILLIAM HENRY KING, brother of Charles O’Hara (qv) ; b. ; at school under Markham (on the authority of Thomas Watkins (adm.1774, qv), who in his Travels in Switzerland (etc), 1792, p.275, records that he took passage in HMS Ambuscade, then commanded by “Captain O’Hara, who to his innumerable attractions adds that of being an Old Westminster”) ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., 16 Jan 1768 ; Cdr., 31 Jul 1778 ; Capt., 15 Feb 1780 ; d. when in command of HMS Ambuscade in Mediterranean 1789.
O’KEEFE, JOHN TOTTENHAM, elder son of John O’Keefe, Eustace Street, Dublin, playwright, and Mary, elder dau. of Tottenham Heaphy, proprietor of The Theatre Royal, Dublin ; b. ; adm. 1789 ; took part of Constance in King John, Town Boy play Dec 1789 ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1790 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 6 May 1791, aged 16, matr. Mich.1791 ; migr. to Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Nov 1798 ; BA 1801 ; ordained deacon 16 Dec 1798 (Lincoln), priest 25 Mar 1802 (Chichester) ; officiated at Duke Street Chapel, Westminster ; Chaplain to Duke of Clarence Apr 1802 ; appointed to a living in Jamaica 1803 ; d. at Port Royal, Jamaica 1803, three weeks after his arrival.
OKEL, — ; b. ; chorister ; in school list Christmas 1764 ; left Midsummer 1767.
OLDHAM, J. ; b. ; in school list 1797.
OLDHAM, T. ; b. ; adm. 12 Sep 1793 ; in school lists 1795, 1797.
OLDHAM, THOMAS STAVELEY, son of Very Rev.Richard Samuel Oldham, Dean of Glasgow, and Emily, dau. of Thomas George Staveley, Senior Clerk, Foreign Office ; b. 21 Dec 1855 ; at Loretto Sch. 1867-9 ; adm. 27 May 1869 ; Min.Can. 1870 ; left May 1872 ; clerk, Coutts’ Bank 1876-1920 ; member of council, London Football Association 1882-1905, Vice-Pres. ; Hon.Sec., London Football Charity Cup Committee 1889-1919 ; Treasurer, Elizabethan Club 1895-1923 ; m.1st, 29 Apr 1879 Sarah Louisa Wilson, sister of Philip Henry Bentham Salusbury (qv) ; m.2nd, 8 Oct 1929 Louise Eleanor, dau. of Henry Horton MRCS, Wednesbury, Staffs. ; d. 7 May 1930.
OLDIS, — ; b. ; at school in 1666 (Busby’s Account Book) ; a boarder.
OLDISWORTH, GILES, brother of Nicholas Oldisworth (qv) ; b.1619 ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1639, adm.pens. 17 May 1639, scholar 17 Apr 1640 ; BA 1642/3 ; deprived of his scholarship for royalist opinions c.1644 ; MA Oxford 20 Jul 1646 ; ordained deacon 16 Jun 1644, priest 21 Sep 1645 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs., from 1645 ; author, The Stone Rolled Away, 1663, A Holy Royalist, 1664, The Father of the Faithful Tempted, 1674, and of a manuscript in prose and verse, A Westminster Scholar, or the Patterne of Pietie (Bodleian Library, Cod.Rawl., c.422) ; m. Margaret Warren ; d. 24 Nov 1678. ODNB.
OLDISWORTH, NICHOLAS, eldest son of Robert Oldisworth, Coln Rogers, Gloucs., and Muriel, dau. of Sir Nicholas Overbury, Kt, Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs., and sister of Sir Thomas Overbury, Kt ; bapt. Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs. 14 Jul 1611 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1628, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1641 ; BA 1632 (incorp.Cambridge 1632) ; MA 1635 ; ordained deacon 18 Jul 1634, priest 30 Jul 1635 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs., from 1 Aug 1634 ; author of a volume of verses dedicated to his wife Marie, 7 Feb 1644, and of A Book touching Sir Thomas Overbury (British Library, Add.MS 15476) ; m. Mary — ; d. 25 Mar 1644/5. ODNB.
OLDMAN, CHARLES EDMUND, third son of Thomas Oldman, Gainsborough, Lincs., solicitor, and Eliza, dau. of Richard Furley, Gainsborough, Lincs. ; b. 15 May 1847 ; adm. 30 May 1861 ; QS 1862 ; rowed v.Eton 28 Jul 1864 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1866, adm.pens. 1 Oct 1866, matr. Mich.1866 ; BA 1869 ; MB 1873 ; MD 1877 ; Guy’s Hospital ; MRCS 1872 ; practised at Bletchingley, Surrey ; m. 26 Jun 1872 Beatrice, second dau. of Edward Maule, Godmanchester, Hunts., solicitor, Clerk of the Peace ; d. 19 Mar 1904.
OLIPHANT, HENRY WILLIAM, son of James Oliphant, Cockspur Street, Westminster, hatter, and Laura Maria, dau. of G.Darby, Upper Tooting, Surrey ; b. 9 Mar 1821 ; adm. 8 Jun 1831 ; left Apr 1838 ; partner in James Oliphant & Co, army accoutrement suppliers ; bankrupt 1869 ; a well-known chess player ; m. 16 Aug 1850 Louisa Wright ; d. 5 Mar 1882.
OLIPHANT, ROBERT, son of Lawrence Oliphant, Liverpool, merchant, and Isabella Green ; b. ; adm. 30 Jun 1784 ; KS (aged 14) 1785 ; founder of “The Trifler, by Timothy Touchstone, of St.Peter’s College, Westminster” (31 May 1788 – 21 Mar 1789) ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1789, adm.pens. 10 Jun 1789, scholar 23 Apr 1790, matr. Mich.1789 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 20 Jun 1787 ; author of three dramatic pieces performed at Liverpool Theatre 1789-90 ; d. 14 Sep 1792. [Presumably Robert Oliphant, son of Lawrence Oliphant, bapt.St.George, Castle Street, Liverpool 12 Jun 1769 (IGI)]
OLIPHANT, ROBERT, younger son of James Oliphant, Cockspur Street, London, hatter, and —, dau. of James Campbell ; b. ; adm. 11 Sep 1786 ; KS (aged 14) 1790 ; living 1825, then partner in James Oliphant and Company, Cockspur Street, London.
OLIPHANT, SIMEON ROBERT, brother of Henry William Oliphant (qv) ; b. 19 Mar 1823 ; adm. 22 Jul 1833 ; left Apr 1838 ; living in 1869, “abroad” ; m. 1st, 2 Feb 1852 (divorced 1862 ?) Louisa Attwater (IGI) ; m.2nd, 20 May 1877 Eliza Blanchard ; living as patient in a lunatic asylum, London, in 1891 (1891 Census).
OLIPHANT, THOMAS HENRY, only son of Isaac Oliphant MD MRCS, Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, Surrey ; b. 6 Jan 1801 ; adm. 13 Jan 1815 ; left Christmas 1817 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 10 Feb 1825, matr. Mich.1825, but did not graduate ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 12 Dec 1818 ; d. at Blackheath, Kent 17 Dec 1859. [mother probably Ann, dau. of Rev.Henry Whinfield DD, Vicar of Marlborough, Wilts.] [of 23 Marine Parade, Dover, Kent, in 1853 ? If so, m. at that date]
OLIPHANT, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1731/2.
OLIVER, see also OLYVERE.
OLIVER, EDGAR, brother of Frederick William Oliver (qv) ; b. 14 Jul 1848 ; adm. 12 Jun 1863 (G) ; left Aug 1866 ; wine merchant (1881 Census) ; m. 10 Jul 1883 Mary Rose, younger dau. of John Augustus Conroy, Comnmissioner of Police, Western Australia ; d. 4 Oct 1918.
OLIVER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, eldest son of William Elliott Oliver, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, solicitor, and Elizabeth, second dau. of Thomas Cadell, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London, bookseller and publisher ; b. 4 Jan 1836 ; adm. 22 Jun 1848 (G) ; QS 1849 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1853, matr. 18 May 1853, Westminster Student 1853-61 ; played cricket for Oxford v.Cambridge 1856-7, and for Surrey 1855-7 ; BA 1857 ; MA 1860 ; adm.solicitor Mich.1860, firm Oliver and Sons, Carey Street, London ; m.1st, 16 Jul 1861 Harriet Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Pollard Ashby, Wandlebank House, Wimbledon, Surrey ; m. 2nd, 28 Dec 1869 Maude, dau. of Rev.Thomas Gronow, Ash Hall, Glamorgan ; d. 7 Jul 1899.
OLIVER, WILLIAM, son of William Oliver MD FRS, Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, inventor of the “Bath Oliver” biscuit, and Elizabeth — (IGI) ; bapt. Bath Abbey 20 Jan 1730/1 ; adm. Jun 1741 ; KS 1745 ; still at school 1748 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Jan 1748/9, aged 18, Canoneer Student 22 Dec 1749 – expulsion “for notorious riot and assault” 15 Nov 1751, having previously been rusticated for a year for neglecting duties and for violence 19 Jun 1750 ; Leiden Univ., adm. 21 Sep 1753 ; Padua Univ. 1755 (again in Padua Jun 1757) ; practised as a physician in Bath and Exeter ; the friend of Warren Hastings (qv) , who declared that “Distance of Time or Place never erases from the mind of an Old Westminster that early Friendship which always participates of the Success we meet with in Life” (Letters of Warren Hastings to his Wife, 1905, 456) ; m. 7 Feb 1775 Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Jenkins, Kingston-upon-Thames, London ; will proved 20 Aug 1801.
OLIVER, WILLIAM HENRY, brother of Frederick William Oliver (qv) ; b. 27 Nov 1842 ; adm. 10 Feb 1857 (G) ; adm.solicitor Easter 1866, firm Oliver and Sons, Carey Street, London ; m. 20 Apr 1870 Amy Bridgewater, second dau. of William Williams, Park Side, Wimbledon, Surrey, solicitor ; d. 15 Nov 1921.
OLIVIER, DANIEL JOSIAS, only son of Rev.Jerome Olivier, Huguenot minister in London, and Julie, dau. of Rev.Joseph De La Motte, St.Peter Le Poer, London, Huguenot minister ; b. 19 Jul 1722 ; adm. from Merchant Taylors’ Sch. Jun 1736 (but again at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1736-8 [check]); a London merchant, firm Gerard and Joshua Van Neck & Co. ; a director of the French Hospital Jul 1765 ; m. 30 Jun 1750 Susanna, dau. of James Massé, St.Peter le Poer, London, diamond merchant ; d. 20 Jun 1782.
OLLIFFE, HAMILTON GEORGE HENRY, son of Sir Joseph Francis Olliffe MD FRCP, Physician to HBM Embassy, Paris, and Laura, dau. of William Cubitt MP, Lord Mayor of London, building contractor ; b. Paris 27 Feb 1859 ; adm. 22 Sep 1871 ; QS 1873 ; left Aug 1876 ; a clerk, Bank of England ; d. 8 Mar 1886.
OLYVERE, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
OMBLER, EDWARD WARD, elder surviving son of Edward Ombler, Camerton, Yorks., landowner, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Wright, Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire ; b. 13 Feb 1804 ; adm. 11 Jan 1815 ; Min.Can.1818 ; left 1821 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 20 Apr 1821, matr. Mich.1821 ; BA 1825 ; MA 1828 ; adm.Middle Temple 2 May 1825, called to bar 6 Feb 1829 ; equity draughtsman and conveyancer ; d. unm. Oct 1848 (will dated 19 Oct 1848, proved PCC 31 Oct 1848).
O’NEILL, GERVASE HENRY CECIL, son of Rev.Arthur Alexander O’Neill, Curate, St.George’s, Chorley, Lancs., and Sarah Ann, only dau. of G.Richardson, Stixwould Abbey, Lincs. ; b. 22 Nov 1862 ; adm. 2 May 1876 (H), exhibitioner ; left May 1878 ; living Ilford, Essex (1901 Census) ; m.1st, Mary Jane Darby (born Ireland, marriage registered Islington first quarter 1898) ; m.2nd, Edith Annie, dau. of John Spiller Standen, Islington, Middlesex (marriage registered Romford third quarter 1902) ; death registered Holborn second quarter 1920, aged 58. [first wife perhaps dau. of William Darby, Limerick, Ireland]
ONGLEY, ROBERT, 2ND BARON, see HENLEY-ONGLEY, ROBERT, 2ND BARON ONGLEY (I).
ONLEY, NICHOLAS, son of — Onley, Strand, London, tavern porter ; b. ; adopted by a gentleman of good family and property of the same name as himself ; adm. ; KS 27 Nov 1656 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 31 Jul 1658, aged 18, Westminster Student ; BA 22 Mar 1661/2 ; MA 1664 ; DD Cambridge 1671 ; ordained ; Curate, Harpenden, Herts., in 1665 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II, James II and William III 2 Apr 1667 – c.1691 ; Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland, from 10 Mar 1669/70 ; Prebendary of Westminster from 17 Jul 1672 ; one of the Chaplains of the Savoy Hospital until its dissolution in Jul 1702 ; Curate, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, from 30 Sep 1683 ; carried St.Edward’s Staff at coronation of James II in 1685 ; devised Vicarage of Staverton, Northants, to Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, on condition of their always presenting a Westminster Student to it ; m. 14 Aug 1665 Mary, dau. of Rev.Henry Killigrew DD, Rector of Wheathamsted, Herts., Prebendary of Westminster, and Master of the Savoy ; d. 28 Sep 1724. [Presumably Nicholas Owneleye, son of Nicholas & Jane, bapt.St.Olave’s, Hart Street, London 24 Jul 1640].
ONSBY, JOHN, see OUSBY, JOHN.
ONSLOW, SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, brother of Guildford Macleay Onslow (qv) ; b. 17 Jul 1842 ; adm. 5 Feb 1856 ; QS 1857 ; rowed v.Eton 3 Aug 1860 ; elected to Trinity Coll. Lent 1861 (with Triplett), adm.pens. 25 May 1861, matr. Lent 1862 ; ran in hurdle race for Cambridge v.Oxford at first inter-university sports 1864 ; BA 1866 ; adm.Inner Temple 15 Jan 1862, called to bar 17 Nov 1868 ; Home Circuit ; Attorney-Gen., Honduras 1877-80, Western Australia 1880-1 ; Chief Justice of Western Australia 1883-1901 ; acting Governor 11 Nov 1884 – 15 Jun 1885 ; knighted 15 Jul 1895 ; returned to England 1900 ; m. 4 Feb 1878 Madeleine Emma, dau. of Rev.Robert Loftus Tottenham, Chaplain to HM Legation, Florence ; d. 20 Oct 1908.
ONSLOW, ALEXANDER LEE, third son of Maj.George Walton Onslow, EICS Madras, and Mary Murray, dau. of Lieut.-Col.Richard Radford Hughes, EICS Bengal ; b. 29 Dec 1835 ; adm. 1 Aug 1849 ; QS 1850 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1854, adm.pens. 29 May 1854, scholar 1855, matr. Mich.1854 ; BA 1858 ; ordained deacon 1859, priest 1860 (both Bath & Wells) ; Curate, Marston Bigot, Somerset 1859-62, Pyrford, Somerset 1862-3 ; Junior Chaplain, Bombay 1863-73, Senior Chaplain 1873 ; Chaplain at Surat 1882-7, retd. ; Vicar of Kingsbury, Warwicks., 1890-1906 ; m. 11 Jul 1864 Ellen Elmira, third dau. of John Warden, EICS Bombay, member of Council, Bombay ; d. 31 Mar 1912.
ONSLOW, ARTHUR CYRIL PHIPPS, second son of Very Rev.Arthur Onslow DD, Dean of Worcester, and Frances, dau. of Constantine Phipps, St.Kitts, West Indies ; b. 8 Jul 1788 ; adm. ; KS 1801 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1805, matr. 25 May 1805, Westminster Student ; BA 1809 ; MA 1811 ; ordained deacon 1810, priest 1811 ; Rector of St.Mary’s, Newington Butts, Surrey, from 15 Aug 1812 ; m. Aug 1812 Elizabeth, third dau. of Sir Edward Winnington, Bart., MP ; d. 6 Feb 1869.
ONSLOW, ARTHUR ROBERT, fifth son of Gen.Denzil Onslow, Staughton House, Hunts., and his second wife Sophia, third dau. of Sir Stephen Lushington, Bart., MP, Chairman EI Company ; b. 11 Apr 1822 ; adm. 24 Sep 1834 ; a clerk, Secretary’s Office, East India Company ; Private Secretary to Chairman, East India Company ; Chief Clerk, Secretariat, India Office, to c.1860 ; m.1st, 1846 Emma, second dau. of Chesterfield Gayford, Old Bond Street, London, wine merchant (marriage registered Marylebone third quarter 1846) ; m.2nd, Frances Louisa Brice (marriage registered St.George Hanover Square fourth quarter 1863) (afterwards wife of Lieut.George Henry Stoate, Royal Navy, and of Col.Frederick Plowden) ; d. 1 Feb 1877.
ONSLOW, CONSTANTINE PHIPPS, second son of Arthur Cyril Phipps Onslow (qv) ; b. 30 Jan 1817 ; adm. 19 Jan 1829 (G) ; 2nd class Clerk, Coastguard Office, Admiralty, 28 years service (occurs as such 1859, 1871) ; d.unm. 16 Nov 1887.
ONSLOW, CYRIL WINNINGTON, eldest son of Arthur Cyril Phipps Onslow (qv) ; b. 17 Dec 1815 ; adm. 19 Jan 1829 (G) ; Min.Can.1831 ; played cricket in one match for Kent 1841 ; Chief Superintendent, Tunbridge Wells Police 1853 ; m. (marriage registered Barnstaple fourth quarter 1848) ; d. 24 Jul 1866.
ONSLOW, HON.EDWARD, fourth son of George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (qv) ; b. 9 Apr 1758 ; adm. 26 May 1766 ; in school list 1774 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Oct 1774, aged 16, but migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 26 Jan 1775, matr.Lent 1776 ; MA 1777 ; adm.Middle Temple 26 Jan 1768 ; MP Aldborough 28 Nov 1780 – May 1781 ; FRS 27 Jan 1780 – withdrew 1781 ; compelled to leave Britain permanently in May 1781 as result of his having made a homosexual approach to a Phelim Macarty at a Royal Academy exhibition ; went to live in France, settling at the Chateau Le Chalendrat, near Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne ; became a Roman Catholic ; father of Georges Onslow, French musical composer ; m. 7 Mar 1783 Marie Rosalie, dau. of Chevalier Jean de Bourdeilles, Seigneur de Couzances ; d. 18 Oct 1829.
ONSLOW, GEORGE, 1ST EARL OF ONSLOW, only son of Right Hon.Arthur Onslow PC MP, Imber Court, Surrey, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Anne, dau. of John Bridges, Thames Ditton, Surrey ; b. 13 Sep 1731 ; adm. Sep 1739 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 12 May 1749 ; MA 1766 ; DCL Oxford 8 Jul 1773 ; adm.Middle Temple 14 Nov 1739 ; MP Rye 1754-61, Surrey 1761-74 ; Col., 2nd battalion, Surrey Militia (occurs 1761) ; a Lord of the Treasury Jul 1765 – Nov 1777 ; Privy Councillor 23 Dec 1767 ; a strong opponent of election of John Wilkes 1769 ; awarded damages in his action for libel against John Horne Tooke (qv) 1 Aug 1770 ; took active part in excluding strangers from gallery of House of Commons and in calling the printers to the bar of the House for publishing the debates 1771 ; created Baron Cranley 20 May 1776 ; succ.cousin as 4th Baron Onslow 8 Oct 1776 ; Lord Lieut., Surrey, from 20 Nov 1776 ; Comptroller of the Household 1 Dec 1777 – Dec 1779, Treasurer of the Household Dec 1779 – Sep 1780 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber from 15 Sep 1780 ; Col., Surrey Fencible Cavalry 1 May 1794 ; created Earl of Onslow 19 Jun 1801 ; m. Jun 1753 Henrietta, sister of Sir John Shelley, Bart. (qv) ; d. 17 May 1814. ODNB.
ONSLOW, GUILDFORD MACLEAY, second son of Arthur Pooley Onslow, Send Grove, Surrey, and Rosa Roberta, sister of William Sharp Macleay (qv) ; b. 8 Jun 1837 ; adm. 11 Apr 1849 ; Min.Can.1852 ; Ensign, 41st Foot 20 Feb 1855 ; Lieut., 26 Feb 1856 ; 83rd Foot 25 Aug 1856 ; retd. 26 Nov 1861 ; served at siege and capture of Kotah 30 Mar 1858 ; d.unm. in Australia Jun 1878.
ONSLOW, JOHN WILLIAMS, brother of Richard Williams (adm.1718, qv) ; bapt.St.Dunstan in the East, London 29 Jun 1716 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1724 (as John Williams) ; in school list 1729 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 5 Apr 1734, aged 18, matr.1734 ; adm.Middle Temple 2 Nov 1734, Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1738/9, called to bar, Middle Temple 6 Jul 1739 ; assumed surname of Onslow 1 Mar 1777 ; m. 1744 Charlotte Maria, dau. of Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy, Bart. ; buried Spettisbury, Oxfordshire 2 Nov 1779.
ONSLOW, RICHARD FOLEY, elder son of Ven.Richard Francis Onslow, Archdeacon of Worcester, and Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs., and Harriet Mary, sister of Thomas Foley (in school list 1795, qv) ; b. 13 Sep 1802 ; adm. 31 Jan 1815 (G) ; Min.Can. 1817 ; left Bartholomewtide 1818 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1821 ; BA 1825 ; inherited Foley estates in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire ; of Stardens, Newent, Gloucs. ; DL Gloucs. 1852 ; m. 5 Jul 1826 Catherine, second dau. of Maj.Latham Blacker, 65thFoot, Newent, Gloucs. ; d. 12 Mar 1879.
ONSLOW, THOMAS, 2ND EARL OF ONSLOW, son of George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (qv) ; b. 15 Mar 1754 ; in school lists 1764-71 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 9 Nov 1771, matr. Easter 1772 ; MA 1773 ; MP Rye 20 Apr 1775-84, Guildford 1784-1806 ; Outranger, Windsor Great Park, from 1792 ; styled Viscount Cranley 1801-14 ; succ.father as 2nd Earl of Onslow 17 May 1814 ; commonly known as “Little Tom Onslow” ; an eccentric with a passion for driving four-in-hand ; DL Surrey 1776, Vice-Lieut.1812-4 ; Col., 2nd Royal Surrey Militia 2 Jan 1797 (still 1808) ; m.1st, 20 Dec 1776 Arabella, third dau. of Eaton Mainwaring-Ellerker, Risby Park, Yorks. ; m.2nd, 13 Feb 1783 Charlotte, widow of Thomas Duncombe (qv), and dau. of William Hale, King’s Walden, Herts. ; d. 22 Feb 1827. ODNB (s,v.father).
O’RAILEY, — ; b. ; at school under Camden (Camden to Ussher 10 Jul 1618, where he states that “divers gentlemen of Ireland”, including an O’Railey, were among his scholars at Westminster : Sir H.Ellis, ed., Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, Camden Soc., 1st ser., xxiii, 125, note).
O’REILLY, EDWARD ; b. 23 Oct 1806 ; adm. 12 Jan 1818.
ORME, HENRY ; b. ; adm. 4 Oct 1809 ; left 1813. [Identified in Record as an attorney, who practised at Louth, Lincs., 1836-51 (will proved PCC 22 Nov 1851). If so, he would have been the son of Rev.Thomas Henry Cave Orme, from a Louth family, Vicar of South Scarfe, Notts., will proved PCC 27 May 1820, but THC Orme did not marry until 1807, and his son Henry Orme was bapt. Louth 15 Aug 1810, so will not have been the Henry Orme who was at Westminster School 1809-13]
ORME, NICHOLAS, brother of Richard Orme (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1615, Westminster Student 1615/6 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1616/7, called to bar 25 Nov 1623 ; d. 4 Feb 1628/9, aged 28 (MI St.Bartholomew the Great, London).
ORME, RICHARD, son of John Orme, St.Bartholomew the Great, London, and Mary — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1609 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1611, Westminster Student 10 Jan 1611/2-21 ; BA 1615 ; MA 1618 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1616 (Oxford). [will of Richard Orme, Vicar of North Wootton, Norfolk, from 3 Feb 1648 [ or 1648/9 ?], proved PCC 9 May 1654]
ORMSBY, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of Sir Charles Montagu Ormsby, Bart., MP KC(I), barrister, Bencher, Kings’ Inns, Dublin, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Kingsbury LLD, Dublin, barrister ; b. 27 Feb 1796 ; adm. 20 Jan 1808 ; KS 1808 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1812, adm.pens. 9 May 1812, scholar 1813, matr. Lent 1813 ; BA 1816 ; migrated to Trinity Coll.Dublin [but not in Burtchaell/Sadleir] ; adm. Inner Temple 6 Jan 1816, King’s Inns, Dublin 1816 ; succ.father as 2nd baronet 3 Mar 1818 ; d. unm. 1 Nov 1821.
ORMSBY, SIR THOMAS, BART., brother of Sir James Ormsby, Bart. (qv) ; b. 26 May 1797 ; adm. 20 Jan 1808 ; left Bartholomewtide 1809 ; Ensign, 85th Foot 21 Jul 1813 ; Lieut., 9 Mar 1815 ; Capt., Cape Corps 5 Dec 1822 ; 14th Light Dragoons 13 Mar 1823 ; Maj., half-pay, unattached 30 Dec 1824 ; succ. brother as 3rd baronet 1 Nov 1821 ; served in North America, wounded at New Orleans ; m. Jul 1824 Mary Martin, only dau. of Maj.-Gen. Francis Slater Rebow, Wivenhoe Park, Essex ; d. 9 Aug 1833.
ORR, ALEXANDER, eldest son of James Orr, Hollywood House, co.Down, Ireland, banker, and Jane, dau. of Richard Stewart, Ballymena, co.Antrim, Ireland ; b. 9 Dec 1814 ; adm. 30 Sep 1828 (G) ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 25 Oct 1832 ; BA 1836 ; MA 1860 ; ordained deacon 1837, priest 1838 (both Down & Connor) ; Vicar of Lambeg Connor, co.Antrim 1847-60 ; Vicar of Salehurst, Sussex 29 Oct 1860-78 ; Rector of Cheriton with Tichborne, Hampshire 1878-92 ; m. 12 Oct 1841 Elizabeth Catherine, youngest dau. of James Blackwood, Strangford, co.Down ; d. 23 Sep 1896.
OSBALDESTON, JOHN, son of John Osbaldeston, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1676 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1681, matr. 16 Dec 1681, aged 17, Westminster Student from 19 Dec 1681 ; BA 1685 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1688, priest 26 May 1689 (both Winchester) ; Rector of Saunderton, Bucks., from 11 Jul 1689 ; Rector of St.Peter at Arches, Lincoln, from 15 May 1690 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 11 Apr 1691 ; buried St.Peter at Arches, Lincoln 27 Aug 1691.
OSBALDESTON (or OSBOLSTON), LAMBERT, brother of William Osbaldeston (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1612, matr. 20 Oct 1615, Westminster Student ; BA 1616 ; MA 1619 (incorp.Cambridge 1628) ; adm.Gray’s Inn 25 Oct 1615 ; a joint patent of the Head Mastership of the School was granted to John Wilson (elected to Oxford 1602, qv) and to Osbaldeston 7 Dec 1621 ; succeeded Wilson as Head Master 1622, his patent being dated 5 Dec 1622 ; ordained ; Prebendary of Lincoln 18 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641 ; Prebendary of Westminster 22 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641 ; Rector of Wheathampstead, Herts., 13 Jun 1637 – deprived Feb 1638/9, later restored ; sentenced to the pillory by Court of Star Chamber 14 Feb 1638/9, for calling Archbishop Laud “the little meddling hocus-pocus”, also incurring two fines of £5000 each and the forfeiture of the Head Mastership and his ecclesiastical preferments ; lived in concealment in Drury Lane until meeting of Parliament in Nov 1640 ; restored to preferments other than Head Mastership May 1641 ; Prebendary of Wells from 2 Nov 1641 ; an annuity of £100 was granted to him by the Governors of Westminster School after the abolition of Deans and Chapters by Parliament in 1649 ; his living of Wheathampstead seems to have been again sequestered ; spent last few years of life in retirement ; Osbaldeston was a learned man and a good schoolmaster ; Wood says that he was “very fortunate in breeding up many wits” (Ath.Oxon., iii, 363), and Fuller states that in 1638 there were “above fourscore doctors in the two universities, and three learned faculties, all gratefully acknowledging their education under him” (Church History, ed.Brewer, vi, 158) ; unm. ; buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey 7 Oct 1659. ODNB.
OSBALDESTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Osbaldeston, London, haberdasher, and Rebecca, dau. of John Nethersole, Womenswould, Kent ; nephew of William Osbaldeston (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1648 ; KS 1650 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 27 Nov 1652, Westminster Student ; [check if BA] ; MA 1658 ; ordained priest 9 Aug 1660 (Chichester) ; Rector of St.James’s, Duke Place, London 14 Aug 1661-4 ; Rector of Great Parndon, Essex, from 1 Dec 1662 ; m. Frances Syliock, St.Martin’s in the Fields ; buried Great Parndon, Essex 3 Mar 1679/80.
OSBALDESTON (or OSBOLSTON), WILLIAM, eldest son of Lambert Osbaldeston, London, haberdasher, and Martha, dau. of Alexander Bankes ; b.1577 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1597, matr. Feb 1597/8, Westminster Student to c.1610 ; BA 1601 ; MA 1604 ; BD 1611 ; DD 1617 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 1 Aug 1619 [check] ; ordained ; Rector of Broad Nymet, Devon 1 Aug 1609 – Jun 1611 ; Rector of Great Parndon, Essex 19 Feb 1611 [or 1611/2 ?]-43, sequestered ; Domestic Chaplain to John King, Bishop of London 8 Mar 1612 [or 1612/3 ?] ; Professor of Divinity, Gresham Coll., London 13 Dec 1610-12 ; licensed to preach 12 May 1612 ; Rector of East Hanningfield, Essex, from 21 Jan 1616/7 ; m. Mary — ; d. early in 1645/6 (but will apparently proved PCC 25 Feb 1646/7 [check]). ODNB.
OSBORN, CHARLES (KS 1688), see OSBORNE, CHARLES.
OSBORN, CHARLES, younger son of Peter Osborn, Second Captain, The Royal Hospital, Greenwich, and Mary, widow of Francis Molyneux, 5th Viscount Molyneux (I), and eldest dau. of Francis Brudenell, Lord Brudenell ; nephew of Thomas Osborn (qv) ; b. Highgate, Middlesex ; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1734/5 ; KS 1737 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1741, but never adm. ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 May 1741, matr.1741 ; a caveat of 3 Nov 1745 from Archbishop of Canterbury to Bishop of Llandaff directed that Osborn was not to receive holy orders without notice to the Archbishop ; migr. to Jesus Coll.Oxford 4 Jun 1747 ; BA 1748 ; MA 1749 ; Capt.-Lieut., 60th Foot (Wotton, Baronetage of England, 1771, vol.2, 152). [or 90th Foot : check].
OSBORN, CHARLES DAVERS, second son of Sir John Osborn, Bart. (qv) ; b. 17 Apr 1819 ; adm. 20 Apr 1831 (G, but also Home Boarder ?) ; left Dec 1835 ; Ensign, 11th Foot 12 Aug 1837 ; 2nd Lieut., 5thFoot 11 May 1838 ; Lieut., 6 Mar 1840 ; 66th Foot 25 Nov 1842 ; retd. 30 Jun 1843 ; m. 2 Jan 1845 Louisa, sister of Edward Gambier Eliot Atherley (qv) ; d. 8 Dec 1846.
OSBORN, SIR DANVERS, BART., fourth son of John Osborn, Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, and Hon.Sarah Byng, letter writer (ODNB), only surviving dau. of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington PC KB, Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy ; nephew of Thomas Osborn (qv) ; b. 17 Nov 1715 ; succ. grandfather as 3rd baronet 28 Apr 1720 ; adm. Jan 1722/3 ; in Third form Jan 1727/8 ; in under school list 1728 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 30 Mar 1732, matr.1732 ; raised a troop against the Young Pretender 1745 ; MP Bedfordshire 1747 – Jun 1753 ; Capt., Independent Co.Foot 25 Jul 1753 ; appointed Governor of New York summer 1753 ; sailed from Portsmouth 22 Aug 1753 ; arrived in New York 6 Oct 1753 ; m. 25 Sep 1740 Lady Mary Montagu, third dau. of George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax ; committed suicide at New York 12 Oct 1753.
OSBORN, DANVERS HENRY, youngest son of Sir John Osborn, Bart. (qv) ; b. 13 Aug 1827 ; adm. 11 Jan 1841 (G) ; QS 1841 ; left 1844 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1845 ; Ensign, 54th Native Infantry 15 Sep 1846 ; Lieut., 18 Jul 1848 ; Capt., 13 May 1857 ; Maj., 27 Dec 1865 ; Bengal Staff Corps 12 Sep 1866 ; retd. as Lieut.-Col., 1 May 1868 ; served in Indian Mutiny ; severely wounded while escaping from Delhi in May 1857 ; m. 17 Mar 1862 Annette, dau. of Thomas Wilson, Calcutta ; d. at Brussels 5 Feb 1898.
OSBORN, SIR GEORGE, BART., elder son of Sir Danvers Osborn, Bart. (qv) ; b. 10 May 1742 ; adm. Apr 1750 ; succ. father as 4thbaronet 12 Oct 1753 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 12 Oct 1759, but did not matr. ; LLD 1769 ; Ensign, 24th Foot 1759 ; Capt., 16th Dragoons 20 Dec 1759 ; served in expedition to Belleisle 1761 ; ADC to his uncle Earl of Halifax, Lord Lieut. Ireland 1761 ; Maj., 18thFoot 13 Feb 1762 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 31 Mar 1763 ; Deputy Quartermaster-Gen., Ireland 1763 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 3rd Foot Guards 9 Nov 1765 ; Brevet Col. and 2nd Maj., 3rd Foot Guards 7 Aug 1777 ; Lieut.-Col., 25 Mar 1782 ; Major-Gen., 19 Feb 1779 ; Col., 73rd Foot 18 Apr 1785 – Aug 1786, 40th Foot from 11 Aug 1786 ; Lieut.-Gen., 28 Sep 1787 ; Gen., 26 Jan 1797 ; served in American War as Muster Master and Inspector-Gen. of German troops employed in service of Great Britain ; MP Northampton 1768 – 14 Feb 1769, Bossinney 24 Apr 1769-74, Penryn 1774-80, Horsham 30 Nov 1780-4 ; a Groom of the Bedchamber 16 May 1770 – Mar 1812 ; Busby Trustee 18 May 1802 ; m.1st, 6 Apr 1771 Elizabeth, dau. of John Banister, Antigua, West Indies, and Cavendish Square, London, merchant ; m.2nd, 22 Aug 1788 Lady Mary Finch, dau. of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham (qv), and his second wife ; d. 29 Jun 1818.
OSBORN, GEORGE MONTAGU, third son of Sir George Robert Osborn, Bart. (qv), and his first wife ; b. 5 May 1843 ; adm. 22 May 1856 (G) ; QS 1859 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1862, adm.pens. 22 Apr 1862, matr.Mich.1862 ; represented Cambridge v.Oxford in high jump 1864, 1865 and throwing the cricket ball 1865 ; BA 1866 ; MA 1869 ; ordained deacon 1866, priest 1867 (both Hereford) ; Curate, Meole Brace, Shropshire 1866-9 ; Rector of Campton with Shefford, Beds., from 1870 ; m. 13 Jan 1876 Hon.Charlotte Jane Kenyon, fifth dau. of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon ; d. 21 Nov 1910.
OSBORN, SIR GEORGE ROBERT, BART., eldest son of Sir John Osborn, Bart. (qv) ; b. 29 Oct 1813 ; adm. 6 Oct 1824 (G) ; left Apr 1831 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Nov 1831 ; Ensign, 85th Foot 10 Aug 1832 ; Lieut., unattached 7 Nov 1834 ; 45th Foot 27 Nov 1835 ; retd. 4 Dec 1835 ; succ.father as 6thbaronet 28 Aug 1848 ; DL Bedfordshire, JP Bedfordshire 1873, High Sheriff 1857 ; m. 1st, 27 Aug 1835 Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Kerr, dau. of Vice-Adm.Lord Robert Mark Kerr, and of Charlotte, Countess of Antrim (I) ; m.2nd, 20 May 1871 Mary Elizabeth, second dau. of Sir George Sitwell, Bart. ; d. 11 Jan 1892.
OSBORN, HENRY, elder son of Adm.Henry Osborn MP, Royal Navy, and Mary, dau. of Richard Hughes, Commissioner of the Navy ; nephew of Thomas Osborn (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1751 (as Osborne) ; in school list 1754 ; Page of Honour to Augusta, Princess of Wales, from c.1755 ; d. 24 Jan 1759, aged 16.
OSBORN, JOHN, younger son of Sir Danvers Osborn, Bart. (qv) ; b. 16 Jul 1743 ; adm. Jun 1751 ; in school list 1754 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 May 1760, Canoneer Student 4 Jul 1760 – res 23 Dec 1767 ; BA 1764 ; DCL 29 Apr 1777 ; Private Secretary to Sir James Porter, HBM Minister at Brussels 1764-5, Chargé d’Affaires 1765 ; Chargé d’Affaires, Naples Jan – Apr 1768 ; HBM Minister at Dresden May 1771 – Sep 1775 ; FRS 17 Apr 1777 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1779 ; d. unm. at Rudolstadt, Saxony 12 Jan 1814.
OSBORN, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Sir George Osborn, Bart. (qv), and his first wife ; b. 3 Dec 1772 ; adm. 2 May 1781 (G) ; in school list 1786 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Apr 1790 ; BA 1793 ; MA 1814 ; DCL 1834 ; MP Bedfordshire 15 Sep 1794-1807, Cockermouth 12 Jul 1807 – Jun 1808, Queenborough 1812-8, Wigtown Burghs 21 Mar 1821 – Jan 1824 ; a Lord of the Admiralty Oct 1812 – Feb 1824 ; succ.father as 5th baronet 29 Jun 1818 ; a Commissioner for Auditing the Public Accounts from 26 Jan 1824 ; Col., Bedfordshire Militia, from 12 Jan 1805 ; m. 14 Sep 1809 Frederica Louisa, illegitimate dau. of Sir Charles Davers, Bart., MP ; d. 28 Aug 1848.
OSBORN, MONTAGU FRANCIS FINCH, fourth son of Sir John Osborn, Bart. (qv) ; b. 20 May 1824 ; adm. 12 Jun 1838 (G) ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 Mar 1841 ; BA 1845 ; MA 1848 ; Fellow, Merton Coll.Oxford 1847-52, Librarian 1848, Dean 1850 ; ordained deacon and priest 1850 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics., 1851-84 ; Vicar of Embleton, Northumberland, from 1884 ; Hon.Canon, Newcastle 1891 ; m. 5 Jun 1861 Catharine, dau. of John Marriott MRCS, Kibworth Harcourt, Leics. ; d. 14 Dec 1895.
OSBORN, THOMAS, youngest son of Sir John Osborn, Bart., and his second wife Martha, dau. of Sir John Kelynge Kt, Serjeant at Law ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Sep 1717 ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 25 Aug 1719, matr.1719 ; LLB 1725 ; LLD 1730 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1724, priest 5 Jun 1726 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of South Fambridge, Essex 15 Jul 1726 – Oct 1727 ; Rector of Campton with Shefford, Beds., from 22 Jul 1727 ; Vicar of Offley, Herts., 29 Oct 1727- Sep 1732 ; Vicar of Hawnes, Beds., 23 Oct 1732 – Apr 1739 ; Rector of Clifton, Beds., from 13 Feb 1738/9 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 15 Aug 1766 ; m.1st, Mary, widow of Edward Snagg, Marston, Beds., and dau. of Sir John Willys, Bart., Fen Ditton, Cambs. ; m.2nd, Elizabeth, dau. of Right Rev.Thomas Green DD, Bishop of Ely ; d. 12 Mar 1790.
OSBORN, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1735/6 ; left 1738. [Perhaps brother or close kin to Henry Osborne (sic), adm.same month, left same year]
OSBORN, WILLIAM, brother of Henry Osborn (qv) ; b. 10 Dec 1751 ; in school lists 1764, 1765 (as Osborne) ; at school 1766 ; cadet, Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth 1766 ; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 18 Nov 1774 ; Lieut., 2 Nov 1777 ; Capt., 29 Nov 1780 ; Maj., 7 Mar 1787 ; Lieut.-Col., 1 Mar 1794 ; retd. 1797 ; d.unm. 20 Apr 1814.
OSBORNE, CHARLES, son of Edward Osborne, Seething, Norfolk, and Blanche, dau. of Robert Suckling, Barsham, Suffolk ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1688 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1692, adm.pens. 23 Jun 1692, aged 17, scholar 28 Apr 1693 ; BA 1695/6 ; MA 1699 ; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1699, priest 22 Dec 1700 (both Norwich) ; Rector of Kirkstead cum Langhall, Norfolk, from 2 Oct 1701 ; Rector of Siseland, Norfolk, from 19 Sep 1713 ; dead by 10 May 1728.
OSBORNE, EDWARD, VISCOUNT LATIMER, eldest son of Thomas Osborne, 1st Earl of Danby KG PC (afterwards 1st Duke of Leeds), Lord Treasurer and Lord President of the Council, and Lady Bridget Bertie, sister of Hon.Charles Bertie (qv) ; b. 3 Apr 1654 ; adm. 23 Oct 1668 (British Library, Add MS 28040, f.4, as quoted by A.Browning, Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and Duke of Leeds, 1944, 68) ; Grand Tour (France) 1671 ; styled Viscount Latimer from 1674 ; a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II 31 Oct 1674 – 6 Feb 1685 ; MP Corfe Castle 5 Apr 1677 – Jan 1679, Buckingham Mar 1679 – Jan 1681 ; Col., Militia Foot, Yorkshire West Riding, from 1677 ; DL Yorkshire, West and North Ridings 1688 ; m. 4 May 1674 Elizabeth, dau. of Simon Bennet, Beachampton, Bucks ; d. of syphilis 16 Feb 1689.
OSBORNE, FRANCIS GODOLPHIN, 5TH DUKE OF LEEDS, youngest son of Thomas Osborne, 4thDuke of Leeds (qv) ; b. 29 Jan 1750/1 ; styled Marquis of Carmarthen 1761-89 ; in school list 1764 ; left Whitsun 1767 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Jun 1767 ; MA 1769 ; DCL 7 Jul 1773 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1769-71 ; MP Eye 22 Mar – 30 Sep 1774, Helston 1774 – 15 Mar 1775 ; called up to House of Lords in father’s barony as Baron Osborne of Kiveton 15 May 1776 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber 5 Jun 1776 – Dec 1777 ; Lord Chamberlain to Queen Charlotte Dec 1777 – c. Oct 1780 ; Privy Councillor 24 Dec 1777 ; opposed elevation of Lord George Germain (qv) to the peerage Feb 1782 ; appointed Ambassador to Paris 9 Feb 1783, but resigned on change of ministry ; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 23 Dec 1783 – 21 Apr 1791 ; succ.father as 5th Duke of Leeds 23 Mar 1789 ; FRS 1 Apr 1773 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1774 ; FSA 20 Jun 1776 ; Lord Lieut., Yorkshire East Riding 1 Aug 1778 – 22 Mar 1780, and from 8 Apr 1782 ; Busby Trustee 22 Apr 1790 ; his Political Memoranda were edited by Oscar Browning, 1884 (Camden Soc.Pub., 2nd series, vol.xxxv) ; m. 29 Nov 1773 (divorced 31 May 1779) Amelia D’Arcy, Baroness Conyers, only dau. of Robert D’Arcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse (qv) ; m.2nd, 11 Oct 1788 Catherine, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Adelaide, dau. of Thomas Anguish, Accountant-Gen., Court of Chancery ; d. 31 Jan 1799. ODNB.
OSBORNE, GEORGE GODOLPHIN, 8TH DUKE OF LEEDS, eldest son of Francis Godolphin Osborne, 1st Baron Godolphin, and Hon.Elizabeth Charlotte Eden, third dau. of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland PC, diplomat and politician ; grandson of Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (qv) ; b. 16 Jul 1802 ; adm. 25 May 1812 ; left 1 Aug 1818 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1819 ; Assistant Secretary, Railway Dept., Board of Trade Jul 1847 – Feb 1850 ; succ.father as 2nd Baron Godolphin 15 Feb 1850 and cousin as 8th Duke of Leeds 4 May 1859 ; m. 21 Oct 1824 Harriet Emma Arundel Stewart, illegitimate dau. of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville PC GCB, Ambassador to Paris, and Harriet, Countess of Bessborough ; d. 8 Aug 1872.
OSBORNE, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1735/6 ; left 1738. [Perhaps brother or close kin to William Osborn (sic), adm.same month]
OSBORNE, HENRY (adm.1751), see OSBORN, HENRY.
OSBORNE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Mar 1715/6 ; in under school list 1718. [“bracketed with William Purnell for his admission fee”]
OSBORNE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Nov 1718 ; in under school list 1722.
OSBORNE, NICHOLAS, son of Sir John Osborne, Bart., MP (I), and Editha, dau. of William Proby, EICS Madras ; b. co.Tipperary ; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1736/7 ; KS 1738 ; left 1742 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.pens. 28 Jan 1740/1 ; BA 1745 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 28 Dec 1749. [perhaps of Kensington, Middlesex, will PCC 13 Jun 1786]
OSBORNE, THOMAS, 4TH DUKE OF LEEDS, only son of Peregrine Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds, and his first wife Lady Elizabeth Harley, sister of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (qv) ; b. 6 Nov 1713 ; adm.Oct 1722 ; took part of Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play of that name which was acted by the boys “at the Theatre over against the Opera House” in Jan 1727/8 (Life and Correspondence of Mrs Delany, 1st series, i, 158) ; in school list 1729 ; succ.father as 4th Duke of Leeds 9 May 1731 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Jul 1731 ; DCL 9 Apr 1733 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1734-5, with cousin Hon.Robert Hay-Drummond (qv) ; Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre of the Forests south of the Trent 12 Nov 1748 – 13 Jan 1756 ; Cofferer of the Household 1 Jan 1756 – Mar 1761 ; Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre of the Forests north of the Trent 22 Apr 1761 – 15 Mar 1774 ; KG 22 Jun 1749 ; Privy Councillor 26 Mar 1757 ; FRS 20 Dec 1739 ; DL Yorkshire West Riding 1757 ; Busby Trustee 18 Apr 1758 ; m. 26 Jun 1740 Lady Mary Godolphin, second dau. of Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin ; d. 23 Mar 1789.
OSBORNE, THOMAS, MARQUIS OF CARMARTHEN, elder son of Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (qv) ; b. 5 Oct 1747 ; at school under Markham (Bentham, Works x, 31) ; a friend and contemporary of Jeremy Bentham (qv), who greeted his recovery from illness with a copy of fourteen Latin couplets (Elizabethan xiv, 29) ; d. at school of smallpox 15 Aug 1761.
OSBORNE-ELPHINSTONE, LORD WILLIAM GODOLPHIN, brother of George Godolphin Osborne, 8th Duke of Leeds (qv) ; b. 29 Mar 1804 ; adm. 14 Jun 1814 ; left 17 Jul 1817 ; Ensign, 26thFoot 11 Sep 1835 ; Lieut., 4 Aug 1837 ; retd. 1842 ; Military Secretary and ADC to his cousin Lord Auckland, Governor-Gen. of India, 1836-41 ; served in China expedition 1839-41 ; assumed additional surname of Elphinstone ; obtained patent of precedency 28 Jun 1859 ; a great proficient of hop-scotch, as played under the rules at the School in his day (Emily Eden, Up the Country, 1866, ii, 214) ; author, The Court and Camp of Runjeet Sing, 1840 ; m.1st, 1832 E.Smith ; m.2nd, 7 Jun 1843 Hon.Caroline Montagu, sixth dau. of Matthew Montagu (formerly Robinson), 4th Baron Rokeby (I) ; m.3rd, 10 May 1870 Hon.Georgina Auguste Henrietta Elphinstone, widow of Capt. Hon.Augustus John Villiers, Royal Horse Guards, and dau. of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith GCB, Admiral, Royal Navy ; d. 28 Dec 1888.
OSTREHAM, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1719/20 ; left 1720. [family perhaps from Barbados ?] [will of Joseph Terrill, London and Barbados, dated 4 Dec 1753, refers to his brother-in-law Thomas Ostreham of Barbados] [ perhaps Thomas Ostrehan (sic), who m. at St.Michael, Barbados 22 Sep 1745 Sarah Warner (IGI) ; he might have been a son of Thomas Ostrehan who m. at St.Michael, Barbados, 29 Jul 1708 Grace Davis (IGI)]
O’SULLIVAN, JOHN LOUIS, brother of William Rowley O’Sullivan (qv) ; b. Gibraltar 15 Nov 1813 ; adm. 23 May 1826 (in Record as John Lewis Sullivan, but surname given as O’Sullivan in admissions and his second Christian name was Louis) ; emigrated to USA 1827 ; Columbia Coll., New York ; BA 1831 ; tutor and instructor, Columbia Coll. 1831-3 ; adm. to US bar 1835 ; he and his brother-in-law purchased the Metropolitan newspaper, Georgetown, Washington DC Jul 1835, and ran it until Jul 1837 ; they subsequently launched the Democratic Review, published in Washington DC Sep 1837 – Dec 1840 ; moved to New York 1840 ; transferred the management and printing of the Democratic Review to New York, acting as its sole editor 1841-6 ; member New York State Assembly 1841-2 ; editor, New York Morning News 1844-6 ; a prominent member of the radical wing of the New York Democrat party ; involved in schemes for US annexation of Cuba between 1848 and 1852 ; US Consul, Lisbon Jun 1854 – May 1858 ; supporter of Confederacy during American Civil war ; friend of the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne ; see Robert D.Sampson, John L.O’Sullivan and his times, 2003 ; author, Union, Disunion andReunion, 1862, and other books and pamphlets ; m. 21 Oct 1846 Susan, dau. of Kearny Rodgers MD, New York City, USA ; d. 24 Feb 1895.
O’SULLIVAN, WILLIAM ROWLEY, eldest son of John William Thomas Gerald O’Sullivan, US sea captain, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Samuel Rowley, Madeley, Staffs., Church of England clergyman ; b. 23 Apr 1812 ; adm. 23 May 1826 (in Record as Sullivan, but O’Sullivan in admissions) ; Lieut., US Navy ; “died unmarried, the man-of-war on which he sailed from New York never being heard of again”.
OSWALD, RICHARD, only son of Richard Alexander Oswald MP, Auchincruive, Ayrshire, and his first wife Lucy Louisa, dau. of Wynne Johnston, Hilton, Berwickshire ; b. ; adm. 14 Sep 1807 ; left 1813 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1816, aged 20, but did not matr. ; m. 10 Dec 1833 Lady Mary Kennedy, second dau. of Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquis of Ailsa KT ; d. 9 Jan 1834.
OTTELEY, see OTTLEY.
OTTER, HENRY SHIRECLIFFE, second son of Charles Otter, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, Examiner of Court of Chancery, and Elinor Shirecliffe, dau. of Kenyon Stevens Parker QC, New Square, Lincoln’s Inn ; b. 4 Feb 1856 ; adm. 26 Jan 1866 ; exhibitioner 1869 ; KS (Capt.) 1870 ; Capt. of the School 1873 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1874, matr. 28 May 1874 ; 1st cl.Classics (Mods) 1876 ; played football for Oxford 1874-8, threw hammer for Oxford 1878 ; Ba 1878 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 4 Nov 1876 ; Indian Civil Service (Madras) 1876 ; Assistant to Collector, Tinnevelly 1879 ; returned to England owing to ill-health ; d. 29 Dec 1879.
OTTER, KENYON BETHELL, brother of Henry Shirecliffe Otter (qv) ; b. 10 Oct 1857 ; adm. 12 Jun 1868 ; QS 2 Oct 1872 ; left Aug 1873 ; clerk, London Stock Exchange ; emigrated to Canada ; d. 3 Aug 1890.
OTTER, PHILPOTT, see PHILPOTT, OTHER.
OTTLEY, ADAM, younger brother of Thomas Ottley (qv) ; b. 6 Apr 1721 ; adm. Jul 1728 (as Otteley, surname only) ; in under school list 1728 (as Otteley, surname only) ; in school list 1734 (as Otteley, surname only) ; the identification of this individual as Adam Ottley follows from the fact that the Ottley MSS in the National Library of Wales evidence the education at Westminster School of both Ottley brothers (E.D.Jones, “The Ottley Papers”, The National Library of Wales Journal, vol.iv, 1945, 69) ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 May 1736, aged 16 ; BA 1740 ; Fellow of All Souls Coll. 1740 ; MA (from All Souls) 1743 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1745, priest 21 Dec 1746 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Pitchford, Shropshire, from 20 Jan 1747 ; buried Pitchford, Shropshire 28 Jul 1798.
OTTLEY, THOMAS, son of Adam Ottley, Pitchford, Shropshire, Registrar, Dioces of St.David’s, and Bridget, only dau. of Sir William Gresley, Bart. ; b. 17 Jan 1716 [or 1716/7 ?] ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1724/5 ; left 1733 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Nov 1733 ; of Pitchford, Shropshire ; High Sheriff, Shropshire 1767 ; m. 22 Feb 1742 (IGI) Catherine, elder dau. of Sir Robert Banks Jenkinson, Bart., MP ; d. 22 Jan 1807.
OTWAY, CHARLES, son of Gen.Charles Otway, Col.35th Foot, and Maria, dau. of Capt.Charles Eaton, Royal Horse Guards ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 17 Mar 1716 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1730/1 ; Ensign, 35th Foot 8 Jan 1731/2 ; d. 6 Dec 1738.
OTWAY, EATON, brother of Charles Otway (qv) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 17 Sep 1719 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1730/1 ; Ensign, 35th Foot 25 Apr 1736 ; Lieut., 10 May 1742 ; Capt., 28 Oct 1745 ; res. 22 Apr 1749 ; d. 19 Oct 1764.
OTWAY, FRANCIS, eldest son of Lieut.-Col.Francis Otway, 3rd Horse Guards, St.Martin’s in the Fields, and Smarden, Kent, and Anne, dau. of Thomas Taylor, St.Anne, Soho ; bapt.St.Anne’s, Soho 15 Oct 1730 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 9) 1739/40 ; left 1748 ; adm.Inner Temple 23 Jun 1748, called to bar 4 Jul 1753, tenant chambers there from 1 May 1751 ; of Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent ; a letter addressed to him at school in 1740 by his uncle and godfather William Byrd, Westover, Virginia, is printed Virginia Magazine of History and Biography xxxviii, 28 ; m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Rowdon Baynham, London, and Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent, apothecary ; buried St.Marylebone, London 22 Mar 1773.
OTWAY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1742/3 ; left 1744.
OUSBY, JOHN, second son of Rev.John Ousby, Poole, Dorset, Chaplain, Middlesex House of Correction, and Mary Anne — (IGI) ; b. 5 Sep 1809 ; adm. 14 Apr 1823 (name printed in Record as Onsby, but name is Ousby in lithographed admissions) ; left Dec 1827 ; Queens’ Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 11 Jan 1832, matr.Mich.1832, but did not graduate ; d. 1842 (death registered Marylebone third quarter 1842).
OUSELEY, WILLIAM WHELER JASPER, son of Col.Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley, EICS Bengal, Oriental Professor at Fort William Coll., Calcutta, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.William Palmer, Chaplain EICS Bengal ; b. 8 Mar 1835 ; adm. 14 Feb 1849 ; junior officer, Merchant Service ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1854 ; Ensign, 28 Jun 1854 ; 22nd Native Infantry, 16 Jan 1855 ; Lieut., 1 Dec 1855 ; cashiered for being drunk on duty 6 Oct 1857 ; a sheep farmer in New Zealand ; d. 1868.
OVERALL, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1563, but never adm.
OVERALL, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1564-5 (tutor, Prebendary Beaumont) (Chapter Muniments 54004-5).
OVERTON, JOHN, eldest son of Robert Overton, Governor of Hull, Major-Gen. in Parliamentary Army, and Anne, dau. of Jeremy Gardiner, Stratford-at-Bow, Middlesex ; bapt. St.Giles, Cripplegate 17 Jul 1635 ; at school under Busby (Admissions to Christ’s Coll.Camb., i, 546) ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 22 Mar 1651/2, aged 18 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 11 Nov 1661 ; of Easington Hall, Holderness, Yorks. ; author, English Military Discipline, 1672 ; m. 1st, Constance — ; m.2nd, Mary, dau. of Sir Francis Monckton, Kt, Cavil in Howden, Yorks. ; buried St.Giles, Cripplegate 24 Mar 1677/8.
OWEN, — ; b. ; at school in 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).
OWEN, — ; b. ; adm. Oct or Nov 1720 ; in under school list 1720.
OWEN, — ; b. ; adm. ; left Feb 1800. [perhaps Thomas Owen (adm.1795, qv]
OWEN, ANDREW, brother of Walter Owen (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, f.224) ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, scholar 2 Apr 1632, matr.Easter 1633 ; LLB 1637 ; LLD 1652 ; Fellow, Trinity Hall, from 11 Aug 1634 ; buried St.Edward’s, Cambridge 13 Nov 1665.
OWEN, CHARLES CUNLIFFE, brother of Thomas Owen (adm.1795, qv) ; b. 12 May 1786 ; in school list 1797 ; left Christmas 1797 ; entered Royal Navy 6 Mar 1801 ; Lieut., 13 Feb 1808 ; taken prisoner in cutting-out expedition at Ile d’Aix 1809 ; imprisoned at Besançon, France, but shammed lunacy and was repatriated to England Feb 1813 ; served in actions on American lakes 1813-4 ; Cdr., 28 Feb 1815 ; retd. with rank Capt., 24 Feb 1852 ; m. 6 Jan 1821 Mary, dau. of Sir Robert Henry Blosset (qv) ; d. at Avignon, France 20 Feb 1872.
OWEN, CORBET, eldest son of Rev.William Owen, Rector of Pontesbury (second portion), Shropshire, and Prebendary of Worcester, and Ann — ; bapt. Pontesbury, Shropshire 5 May 1646 ; touched for the King’s evil by Charles II in Flanders ; adm. May 1658 ; KS 1659 ; according to Wood, it was usual for him at the School “to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses extempore in little more than half an hour” (Ath.Oxon., iii, 924) ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1663, matr. 3 Jul 1663, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1663 ; BA 1667 ; MA 23 Mar 1669/70 ; said by Wood to have been “the most forward person of his age in the university for polite learning” (Ath.Oxon., ibid.) ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 20 Apr 1665 ; author, Carmen Pindaricum in Theatro Sheldoniano in solemnibus magnifici operis encoeniis recitatum, 1669, and of other poems, still in manuscript at his death ; d. 18 Jan 1670/1. ODNB.
OWEN, E. ; b. ; in school list 1801.
OWEN, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1669 (Chapter Muniments 33702).
OWEN, HENRY, brother of Thomas Owen (adm.1795, qv) ; b. 12 Oct 1790 ; adm. ; left 1806 ; practised as an attorney in Worksop, Notts. (Law List 1822) ; m. 13 Mar 1815 Sophia Mary, dau. of Capt.Stephen O’Brien, Royal Navy [but not in Syrett and DiNardo] ; d. 16 Mar 1850.
OWEN, JOHN, only son of Lewis Owen (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 6) Jan 1746/7 ; in school list 1754 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 7 Feb 1758, aged 16 ; adm.Inner Temple 10 Feb 1759 ; of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, and of Moynes Court, Monmouthshire ; d.unm. 17 Dec 1823.
OWEN, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 2 Oct 1765 ; in house list 1768. [ordained ; Assistant Chaplain, EICS Bengal Apr 1783 ; attended OWW dinner at Calcutta c.Jul –Oct 1784 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6) ; Chaplain to Garrison, Fort William 1786 ; Junior Chaplain 1788 ; returned to England 1794 ; described by William Hickey (qv) as “a pedantic, methodistical parson” ; but John Owen, the EICS Chaplain, appears to have been educated at Charterhouse and Worcester Coll.Oxford, ordained deacon 11 Jun 1775 (Oxford, lit.dim. from London), and was then a Fellow of New College ; after his return to England he was Archdeacon of Richmond (from 1801) and Chaplain General to Forces ; Rector of St.Benet and St.Peter, Paul’s Wharf, from 1802 ; Rector of East Horsley, Surrey, from 1820 ; d. 4 Jun 1824, aged 70 (sic)]. [If so, he was son of John Owen, Portsmouth, Hampshire ; Worcester Coll., Oxford, matr. 6 Dec 1771, aged 19, BA 1775]
OWEN, JOSEPH, brother of Thomas Owen (adm.1795, qv) ; b. 15 May 1789 ; at school under Vincent (ex rel. M.C.Owen) ; settled in Copenhagen, Denmark 1813 ; a prominent merchant and ammonia manufacturer there ; m. 1 Mar 1816 Susanne Christine, dau. of Georg Daniel von der Pahlen ; d. 7 Sep 1862. See Dansk Biografisk Lexicon.
OWEN, LEWIS, youngest son of Sir Robert Owen Kt MP, Porkington, Shropshire, and Margaret, eldest dau. of Owen Wynne, Glyn, Merioneth ; b. 29 Sep 1696 ; adm. ; Min.Can. 1711, 1712 (aged 15) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 Mar 1713/4 ; migrated to All Souls Coll. ; BA 20 Feb 1717/8 ; MA 1721 ; BD 1729 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1725 (Oxford, then a Fellow of All Souls), priest 6 Feb 1726/7 (London) ; [perhaps Rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire 22 Oct 1731, BD on institution] ; Vicar of Barking, Essex, from 6 Feb 1734/5 ; Rector of Wexham, Bucks., from 29 Jan 1741 ; Prebendary of Hereford from 3 Mar 1738/9 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Lyster, Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, and Moynes Court, Monmouthshire ; d. May – Jun 1746 (living 18 May, dead by 4 Jun)..
OWEN, MATTHEW ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1680 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1684, but was never adm.
OWEN, REGINALD SOLLY, third son of Rev.John Owen, Vicar of Hooton, Cheshire, and Mary, only child of Joseph Solly, Queen’s Gardens, Bayswater, London ; b. 6 Nov 1861 ; adm. 27 May 1875 (G), exhibitioner ; QS 1876 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1880, matr. 15 Oct 1880 ; BA 1884 ; MA 1890 ; Assistant Master, Blundell’s Sch., Tiverton, Devon 1888-1912 ; m. 28 Aug 1907 Esme Ethel, only dau. of Lieut.-Col.Alfred Mansel DSO, Royal Artillery, Glen Road, Mannamead, Plymouth, Devon ; d. 25 Oct 1922.
OWEN, ROBERT (alias HART, ROGER) ; b. ; at school under Grant (Liber Primi Examinis, English College, Valladolid, Spain) ; stated to have been four years at Cambridge Univ., BA ; Roman Catholic convert ; went first to Brussels and then to English College, Valladolid, adm. May 1609, aged 25 ; ordained priest (RC) ; left for England Jan 1611 ; presumably John Owen (sic), b. diocese of St.Asaph, ed.Valladolid, professed OSB Spain, who d. in Drury Lane, London 6 Jan 1654.
OWEN, ROWLAND ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1720 ; in under school list 1723. [Perhaps distiller, St.Mary Whitechapel, Middlesex, will PCC 1 Feb 1757]
OWEN, THELWELL ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Aug 1725.
OWEN, THOMAS, of Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1589, matr. 30 Oct 1590, aged 15, Westminster Student to 1594 ; BA 1593. [Probably second son of Thomas Owen, Condover, Shropshire, Judge of the Common Pleas, and his first wife Sarah, third dau. of Humphrey Baskerville, Alderman and Sheriff of London ; not mentioned in father’s will dated 9 Dec 1598, so evidently dead by then] [The identification is suggested by the fact that his father’s will provides for a legacy of £10 to Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster, “to whome I have bin beholdinge for the virtuous education of my children”, and also for a legacy of £5 to “the late learned scholemaister there Mr Camden” ; the will also mentions Alexander Nowell, Dean of St.Paul’s, “of whom I have learned and received many good thinges” ; additionally, a quatrain “uppon Thomas Owen Bachelor of Arts at Christchurch Oxon. a youngman of great hope a Student of that place”, beginning “Short was thy life yet diest thou never”, occurs in William Camden’s collections for his Britannia, British Library, Cotton MSS Julius F.XI, f.88v., as recorded by Hilton Kelliher, ‘British Post-Mediaeval Verse in the Cotton collection’, in C.J.Wright, ed., Sir Robert Cotton as Collector, 1997, p.341]
OWEN, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. 3 Feb 1772 ; in school lists 1775.
OWEN, THOMAS, eldest son of Charles Owen, South Parade, Queen’s Elm, Chelsea, Middlesex, solicitor, and his first wife Mary Newman ; b. 23 Feb 1785 ; adm. 3 Oct 1795 ; in school list 1797 (as T.Owen) ; went to America ; d. unm.
OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS, eldest son of William Owen, Conway, Caernarvonshire, mercer, and Margaret, sister of Thomas Ellis (adm.1752, qv) ; b. 25 Feb 1765 ; adm. 22 Sep 1777 ; KS 1780 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1785, matr. 26 May 1785, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1785 – void 25 Nov 1791 (expiry year of grace as V.South Stoke from 2 Dec 1790) ; BA 1789 ; ordained deacon 7 Jun 1789, priest 8 Mar 1790 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of South Stoke, Oxfordshire 25 Nov 1790 – May 1795 ; Rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, from 10 Dec 1794 (having resigned and been reinstituted 29 Dec 1812) ; Perpetual Curate of Penmynydd, Anglesey, from 29 Dec 1812 ; author, Methodism Unmasked, or the Progress of Puritanism, 1802 ; m. 27 May 1791 Harriott, sister of Sir Robert Chester (qv) ; d. 1 Dec 1814. ODNB.
OWEN, WALTER, son of Rev.Cadwallader Owen, Vicar of Llanbrynmair, Merioneth, and Blanche, dau. of John Roberts ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1628, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 20, Westminster Student to c.1641 ; BA 1632 ; MA 1635. [perhaps Curate, Didlaston, Shropshire 1638]
OWEN, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1611, Westminster Student 10 Jan 1611/2-20 ; BA 1615 ; MA 1618.
OWEN, WILLIAM, brother of Corbet Owen (qv) ; bapt. 6 Feb 1647/8 ; adm. ; KS 1663 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1666, matr. 13 Jul 1666, aged 18, Westminster Student 3 Feb 1668 [sic : check] – void 1673 ; BA 1670 ; MA 1673 ; ordained deacon and priest 1672 (lit.dim. from Canterbury 31 Jul 1672) ; Rector of Pontesbury (second portion), Shropshire, from 23 Sep 1672 ; Rector of Mucklestone, Staffs., from 25 Mar 1672/3 ; m.1679 Jane, dau. of Rowland Niccolls, Boycott, Pontesbury, Shropshire ; d. May 1682.
OWEN, WILLIAM, only son of Sir Richard Owen KCB FRS FRCS, Hunterian Professor, Royal Coll. of Surgeons, and Caroline Amelia, only dau. of William Clift FRS, Hampstead Road, Middlesex, Curator of Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, and naturalist ; b. 6 Oct 1837 ; adm. 25 Sep 1847 (R) ; QS 1852 ; left 1852 ; Clerk, Foreign Office, from Dec 1854 ; m. 5 Jan 1867 Sarah Emily Fretwell, eldest dau. of Robert Rowell Fretwell Frecheville (formerly Fretwell), Kingston, Surrey ; committed suicide by drowning at Kingston, Surrey 14 Mar 1886.
OXENBRIDGE, DANIEL, only son of Rev.John Oxenbridge, Rector of Southam, Warwickshire, Puritan preacher, and Mary — ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1589, matr. 30 Oct 1590, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1601, afterwards Faculty Student ; BA 1593 ; MA 1596 (incorp.Cambridge 1612) ; MB and MD 1620 ; FRCP 22 Nov 1627 ; practised at Daventry, Northants, and afterwards in London ; m. by 1602 Katherine, second dau. of Thomas Harby, Adstone, Northants, and sister of Sir Job Harby, Bart., Commissioner of Customs ; d. 24 Aug 1642. ODNB.
OXFORD, EARLS OF, see HARLEY.