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

1883. The O’Neill scholarship founded in the divinity school,

Trin. coll. Dublin in his memory. _Sermon by the rev. lord

O’Neill_ (1885), _memoir pp. ix–xlviii portrait_.

O’NEILL, HENRY. _b._ Dundalk 1800; Irish archæologist; author

of A guide to pictorial art 1846; The most interesting of

the ancient crosses of ancient Ireland, drawn to scale and

lithographed by H. O’Neill 1857; The fine arts and civilization

of ancient Ireland, illustrated with chromo and other

lithographs 1863; Ireland for the Irish 1868. _d._ 109 Lower

Gardiner st. Dublin 21 Dec. 1880.

O’NEILL, HENRY ARTHUR. Ensign 41 foot 22 Nov. 1821; captain 12

foot 8 March 1827, major 28 Aug. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842, when

placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Nov. 1870. _d._ St. Ann’s Donnybrook,

co. Dublin 23 Nov. 1874.

O’NEIL, HENRY NELSON. _b._ St. Petersburg 7 Jany. 1817; came

to England 1823; studied at the R.A. from 1836; historical

painter; exhibited 94 pictures at R.A., 34 at B.I., and 14 at

Suffolk st. 1838–79; A.R.A. 1860; with other persons supplied

illustrations to L’Allegro and Il penseroso 1848; author of

Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy 1866; Two

thousand years hence 1868; Modern art in England and France

1869; Satirical dialogues 1870; The age of stucco, a satire in

three cantos 1871. _d._ 7 Victoria road, Kensington, London 13

March 1880. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Sandby’s History of

royal academy ii_ 343 (1862); _Walford’s Representative men_

(1868) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxvi_ 180, 181 (1860) _portrait_,

_lxxv_ 308 (1880) _portrait_.

O’NEILL OR O’NIELL, JOHN (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Waterford

8 Jany 1777; a shoemaker at Garrick-on-Suir 1800, afterwards

in London from 1812; a strong advocate of temperance; author

of The clothier’s looking-glass, a poem 1799; Irish melodies;

The sorrows of memory, a poem; Alva, a drama 1821; The Drunkard

1840, a poem, new edition with George Cruikshank’s etchings

of the effects of the Bottle 1842; The triumph of temperance,

or the destruction of the British upas tree 1852, a poem;

Handerahan the Irish fairy-man and legends of Carrick 1854; Hugh

O’Neill the prince of Ulster, a poem 1859; Mary of Avonmore,

or the foundling of the beach, a novel. _d._ White horse yard,

Drury lane, London 3 Feb. 1858. _J. O’Neill’s Blessings of

Temperance_ (1851), _memoir pp. i–vi_, _portrait_; _W. E.

Winks’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers_ (1883) 316–9; _D. J.

O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_, _part iii_, _p._ 195 (1893); _S.

Couling’s History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 338–9.

O’NEILL, JOHN. _b._ about 1837; employed in the war office;

retired on a pension of £350 in 1879; accountant general in

Cyprus, where he had to reduce eleven different currencies to

a common denomination; made a special study of Japanese, and

compiled a grammar which was adopted by the Mikado; contributed

to philological and literary journals in London and Paris; an

authority on the Provençal language and literature; author of A

first Japanese book for English students 1874; The night of the

Gods, an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology 1893. _d._

Selling, near Faversham 12 Jany. 1895.

O’NEILL, JOHN ROBERT (only son of Robert O’Neill of Talylyn,

co. Brecon, who was brother of lady Becher). _b._ Ireland 1823;

matric. from Magdalen hall, Oxf. 5 Dec. 1844; appeared on the

stage at Exeter; a reader and lecturer; author of the plays, Don

Roderick; The Loose fish; Mrs. Johnson; Ali Baba, or a night

with the 40 thieves, extravaganza performed by the marionettes

at the St. James’ theatre, London 27 Dec. 1852; An optical

delusion, a farce, St. James’ theatre; under the name of Hugo

Vamp, esq. he wrote the dramas Aladdin; The Arcadian brothers;

Poll Practice; Roscius in spirits; The manager at home; composer

(as Hugo Vamp) of Alonzo the brave 1856; Lord Ronald the bold,

duke of Putney 1861; Mazeppa, the cream of Tartars 1869; King

Leah, a comic scena 1872; Othello, a comic scena 1872. _d._

39 Paulton square, Chelsea 12 June 1860. _W. Donaldson’s

Recollections of an actor_ (1865) 309–21; _The Era 24 June 1860

p._ 11.

ONSLOW, GEORGES (son of Edward Onslow). _b._ Clermont-Ferrand,

Auvergne 27 July 1784; pupil of Hullmandel, Dussek, and J. B.

Cramer in England; studied music in Vienna two years; pupil of

Reicha in Paris 1808; composed 3 operas, produced at the Théatre

Feydeau, Paris, L’Alcalde de la Vega 10 Aug. 1824, Le Colporteur

22 Nov. 1827, and Le Duc de Guise 8 Sept. 1837; one of the first

honorary members of the Philharmonic society, London 1832; nine

of his symphonies were played at the Conservatoire concerts

in Paris 1831, &c.; member of the French Institute Nov. 1842;

published at Paris, Vienna and Leipsic 34 quintets, 36 quartets

and 6 trios for piano, violin, and violincello 1824–50; printed

in London An air for the pianoforte 1828. _d._ Clermont-Ferrand

3 Oct. 1853. _F. Halevy’s Souvenirs et portraits_, _Paris_

(1861) 161–86; _Georges Onslow, Esquisse par, Auguste Gathy_.

ONSLOW, GUILDFORD JAMES HILLIER MAINWARING-ELLERKER (2 son of

succeeding). _b._ Bulstrode st. London 29 March 1814; educ.

Eton; lieut. Scots fusilier guards; M.P. Guildford 1858–74;

assumed by R.L. additional names of Mainwaring-Ellerker 19 Aug.

1861; a friend of sir Roger Tichborne from 1847; a firm believer

in the Tichborne claimant 1867, to whom he gave continuous

support, assisted him with money and was a holder of Tichborne

bonds, a believer in Tichborne to his death; the claimant in

June 1895 admitted that he was Arthur Orton and not sir Roger

Tichborne; author of Tichborne, Reasons why he should have

the benefit of the doubt 1874; Two hundred facts proving the

claimant to be Roger Tichborne, in De Morgan’s Popular series,

No. 2, 1876. _d._ The Grove, Ropley, Alresford 20 Aug. 1882.

_bur._ Old Alresford churchyard 24 Aug.

ONSLOW, THOMAS CRANLEY (2 son of 2 earl of Onslow 1754–1827).

_b._ 7 Oct. 1778; educ. Harrow; ensign 3 foot guards 29 April

1795, captain 26 Sept. 1805, sold out 1812; colonel 2 Surrey

militia to 1852; M.P. Guildford 1806–18. _d._ Upton house,

Alresford 7 July 1861.

ONSLOW, WILLIAM. Cornet 11 dragoons 12 Dec. 1798, lieut. 26 Feb.

1801; captain 4 dragoons 29 Jany. 1805, major 23 Nov. 1820;

major 88 foot 15 Feb. 1827, placed on h.p. 2 July 1829; major 55

foot 7 Feb. 1840, sold out same day; K.H. 1832.

NOTE.--He is in Burke’s and Dod’s Peerages 1887, but probably died some

years before this date.

ONWHYN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1787; bookseller 3 Catherine st. Strand,

London; published Onwhyn’s Guide to the Highlands of Scotland

1839; Onwhyn’s Welsh tourist 1840, 2 ed. 1853; Onwhyn’s Pocket

guide to the Lakes 1841; and The Owl, a Wednesday journal of

politics and society. First issue numbered 1001 27 April 1864,

last issue 1095 22 July 1868, a satirical journal treating

chiefly on political subjects. _d._ New Hillingdon, Cowley,

Uxbridge, Middlesex 27 Nov. 1870.

ONWHYN, THOMAS (youngest son of the preceding). _b._ London

1811; designer and engraver; in Additional illustrations to the

Pickwick Papers by Samuel Weller, issued in 8 monthly parts,

Lond. E. Grattan 1837, he executed 21 of the 32 plates, some

of which bear his initials; and in Illustrations to Nicholas

Nickleby by Peter Palette, esq., issued in 9 parts, Lond. E.

Grattan 1839, he executed all the 40 plates, this work was

reprinted in 1848, another set of illustrations to the same

work by Onwhyn appeared in 1893; he illustrated The memoirs of

David Dreamy 1839; Charles Selby’s Maxims and specimens of

William Muggins 1841; M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris

1844; Etiquette illustrated by an X M.P. 1849; he illustrated

the following works by Henry Cockton, Valentine Vox, the

Ventriloquist 1840; George St. George Julian, the Prince 1842;

Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist 1844; The Love Match 1845;

The Steward 1850; The Sisters 1851; Lady Felicia 1851; Percy

Effingham 1853; under the name of Peter Palette he wrote Mr.

and Mrs. Brown’s Visit to the Exhibition 1851; Peter Palette’s

Tales and Pictures, 1856, second series 1856; with J. Onwhyn he

produced Costumes of the times of George iii, designed for her

majesty’s state ball 1845; his 12 pictures entitled Cupid and

crinoline, dated 20 Oct. 1858, were reprinted in The Picture

Magazine June 1893, pp. 326–7. _d._ 9 May’s buildings, Strand,

St. Martin in the Fields, London 21 Jany. 1886, his son Thomas

Onwhyn present at his death. _Jas. Cook’s Bibliography of C.

Dickens_ (1879) 12, 17, 83, 85.

OPIE, AMELIA (only child of James Alderson of Norwich,

physician, _d._ Oct. 1825). _b._ Calvert st. Norwich 12 Nov.

1769; took charge of her father’s house on her mother’s death

31 Dec. 1784; wrote a tragedy entitled Adelaide about 1787;

author of The dangers of coquetry 2 vols. 1790, anon.; _m._ at

Marylebone church 8 May 1798 John Opie, the Cornish painter, who

_d._ April 1807, aged 46; received into the Society of Friends

11 Aug. 1825; author of The father and daughter 1801, 4 ed.

1804; Poems 1802, 6 ed. 1811; Adelaide Mowbray or the mother

and daughter, 3 vols. 1804, new ed. 1844; Simple Tales 1806,

4 ed. 1815; The warrior’s return and other poems 1808; Temper

or domestic scenes, 3 vols. 1812; Tales of real life, 3 vols.

1813, 3 ed. 1816; Valentine’s Eve, 3 vols. 1816; New tales, 4

vols. 1818; Tales of the heart, 4 vols. 1820; Madeline, 2 vols.

1822; Illustrations of lying in all its branches, 2 vols. 1825;

Detraction displayed 1828; Lays for the dead 1834, 2 ed. 1840;

a collected edition of her Miscellaneous tales was published

in 12 vols. 1845–7. _d._ Castle Meadow, Norwich 2 Dec. 1853.

_bur._ in the Friends’ burying-ground, Gildencroft, Norwich 9

Dec. _C. L. Brightwell’s Memorials of life of A. Opie_ (1854)

_portrait_; _C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers_, _2 series_ (1893)

175–90 _portrait_; _Biographical catalogue of lives of friends_

(1888) 473–80; _A book of memories by S. C. Hall_ (1877) 167–80;

_J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii_ 15–30 (1858); _J.

Kavanagh’s English women of letters ii_ 237–84 (1863); _H.

Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (1876) 329–36; _A book of

sibyls by Miss Thackeray_ (_Mrs. R. Ritchie_ 1883) _pp._ 149–96;

_Cornhill magazine Oct. 1883 pp._ 357–82.

ORANGE, JAMES. _b._ 1799; minister of the Gospel, formerly

resident at Castle terrace, Nottingham; edited Narrative of the

late George Vason, missionary in the ship Duff, with An essay

on the South Seas, Derby 1840; author of The ecclesiastical and

civil history of the town and people of Nottingham, 2 vols.

1840; Synoptica Hebræa, Anglo-Hebrew Bible expositor, a manual

of self instruction, London 1858; a teacher of Hebrew at 471

Mile end road, London 1866 to death. _d._ 471 Mile end road,

London 6 Jany. 1878. _Christian World 25 Jany. 1878 p._ 72.

ORANMORE, DOMINICK BROWNE, 1 Baron (2 son of Dominick Geoffrey

Browne, governor of Mayo 1755–1826). _b._ Sackville st. Dublin

28 May 1787; educ. Eton, Edinburgh, and St. John’s coll. Camb.;

M.P. Mayo 1814–36; P.C. Ireland 1834; lord lieutenant of Mayo

1834–42; cr. baron Oranmore and Browne of Carra Browne castle,

Oranmore, co. Galway and of Castle Mac Garrett, co. Mayo 4 May

1836. _d._ Brighton 30 Jany. 1860. _G.M. viii_ 296 (1860).

ORCZY, BODOG, Baron. _b._ Hungary 1835; composer of II

rinnegato, opera in 3 acts, Hungarian libretto by Farkas Deak,

Italian adaptation by S. C. Marchesi, English adaptation by

Frederick Corder, London 1881. _d._ 23 Wimpole st. London 20

Jany. 1892.

ORD, SIR HARRY ST. GEORGE (eld. son of Harry Gough Ord, captain

R.A.). _b._ North Cray, Kent 17 June 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 14

Dec. 1837; adjutant of the R.E. at Chatham 1 Jany. 1852 to July

1854; brigade major of the R.E. in the Baltic July 1854; lieut.

col. R.E. 28 Nov. 1859, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 16 April

1869; lieutenant governor of Dominica 2 Sept. 1857; governor of

the Bermudas 16 Feb. 1861 to Nov. 1866; governor of the Straits

Settlements 5 Feb. 1867 to Nov. 1873; governor of Western

Australia 12 Nov. 1877, retired on a pension 6 April 1880; C.B.

9 Oct. 1865; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1867; K.C.M.G. 30 May

1877, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. _d._ Homburg 20 Aug. 1885. _bur._

in churchyard of Fornham, St. Martin, near Bury St. Edmunds,

portrait in chamber of legislative council, Bermuda.

ORD, JOHN WALKER (son of Richard Ord of Guisborough, Yorkshire,

tanner). _b._ Guisborough 5 March 1811; educ. univ. of Edinb.;

apprenticed to Robert Knox the anatomist; founded in London

1834 the Metropolitan literary journal, which was merged in the

Britannia; author of England, a historical poem, 2 vols. 1834–5;

Remarks on the sympathetic condition existing between the body

and the mind, especially during disease 1836; The Bard and

minor poems 1841; Rural sketches and poems chiefly relating to

Cleveland 1845; The history and antiquities of Cleveland 1846;

edited Roseberry Topping, a poem by Thomas Pierson, Stockton

1847. _d._ Guisborough 29 Aug. 1853. _J. W. Ord’s History and

antiquities of Cleveland_ (1846) _portrait_.

ORD, WILLIAM REDMAN. _b._ about 1792; second lieut. R.E. 25

April 1809, colonel 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 20 April 1861

to death; general 1 Jany. 1868. _d._ Stoke Damarel, Devonport 11

April 1872.

ORDISH, ROWLAND MASON (son of John Ordish, land agent and

surveyor). _b._ Melbourne, near Derby 11 April 1824; employed

by R. E. Brounger, civil engineer, London 1847, afterwards

by Charles Fox; made the working drawings for the iron work

of the Great Exhibition building 1851, and was engaged on

the re-erection of the building at Sydenham 1852–4; chief

draughtsman in the works’ department of the admiralty at

Somerset house Jany. 1856 to March 1858; engineer at 18 Great

George st. Westminster 1858; partner with W. H. Le Feuvre;

took out a patent April 1858 for an improvement in suspension

bridges, which is known as Ordish’s straight chain suspension

system; designed the Franz-Joseph bridge over the Moldau at

Prague 1868, and the Albert bridge over the Thames at Chelsea,

opened Sept. 1873, both constructed on this principle; designed

the roof of the Dutch-Rhenish railway station at Amsterdam

1863, roof of the Dublin winter palace 1865, winter garden for

Leeds infirmary 1868, and the railway station at Cape Town;

designed with J. W. Grover the roof of the Albert Hall at South

Kensington 1870; member of the Society of Engineers 1857,

president 1860. _d._ Stratford place, Camden Town, London 12

Sept. 1886. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

O’REARDON, JOHN. _b._ 1776; educ. Maynooth 1797; a physician

1802; studied in Paris 1803; a prisoner in France to 1814;

physician to fever hospital, Cork st. Dublin 1814–48, wrote

the annual reports for 1824, 1827, 1830 and 1833; physician

to Daniell O’Connell; author of De ictero 1802; A memoir of

Richard Kirwan, the chemist. _d._ Mount Prospect, Killarney 14

March 1866. _Medical Times 31 March 1866 p._ 353.

O’REGAN, ANTHONY. _b._ Kiltullagh, Ireland 1809; a priest in

Tuam cathedral; professor and then president of St. Jarlath’s

coll. Tuam; went to U.S. of America; vicar-general of diocese of

St. Louis; president of the college of Carondelet and professor

of theology and sacred scriptures; bishop of Chicago 1854,

resigned 1858 and was transferred to the titular see of Dora;

resided in Europe 1858 to death. _d._ Michael’s grove, Brompton,

London 13 Nov. 1866. _bur._ Cloonfad, co. Galway, 22 Nov. _The

Tablet 17 Nov. 1866 p._ 721, _1 Dec. p._ 764.

O’REILLY, BERNARD. _b._ co. Longford 1803; embarked for U.S. of

America 17 Jany. 1825; educ. Ecclesiastical seminary, Montreal

1825, and at St. Mary’s coll. Baltimore; ordained in New York

13 Oct. 1831; a priest at St. James’ ch. Brooklyn from 1831;

devoted himself to the sick during the cholera of 1832; pastor

of St. Patrick’s ch. Rochester Dec. 1832; vicar-general of the

new see of Buffalo Oct, 1847; consecrated bishop of Hartford

in St. Patrick’s ch. 1850; introduced Sisters of mercy to the

states of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and protected them

against a mob in 1855; went to Europe 5 Dec. 1855; embarked at

Liverpool on board the steamer Pacific on his return to his

diocese 23 Jany. 1856, but the ship was never again heard of,

requiem masses said for him in June 1856. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives

of bishops of catholic church in United States ii_ 391–407

(1872).

O’REILLY, BERNARD (son of a farmer). _b._ Ballybeg, co. Meath

10 Jany. or June 1824; educ. at St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw,

Durham 10 June 1836 to 17 May 1847; received tonsure and 4

minor orders 15 Feb. 1845, sub-deacon 20 Sept. 1845, deacon 19

Dec. 1846, priest 9 May 1847; assistant priest of mission at

St. Patrick’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 18 May 1847 to 8 Dec.

1852; removed to new mission of St. Vincent de Paul 8 Dec. 1852,

erected a new church 1857; canon of chapter of Liverpool 24 Dec.

1862 and vicar-general; bishop of Liverpool 28 Feb. 1873 to

death; consecrated at St. Vincent’s, Liverpool 19 March 1873.

_d._ St. Edward’s coll. Everton 9 April 1894. _bur._ Upholland

cemet. Wigan 13 April. _Brady’s Episcopal succession iii_ 423

(1877).

O’REILLY, DOWELL (4 son of Matthew O’Reilly of Knock Abbey

castle, co. Louth, _d._ Jany. 1817). _b._ May 1795; called to

Irish bar; barrister L.I. 17 April 1832; attorney general of

Jamaica 1831–55; nominated president of legislative council

there June 1855, but he died before being inaugurated. _d._ St.

Andrews, Kingston, Jamaica 13 Sept. 1855. _bur._ in R.C. cemet.

Kingston 14 Sept. _G.M. xliv_ 651 (1855).

O’REILLY, EDMUND JOSEPH. _b._ London 30 April 1811; studied

at Maynooth and the Irish college at Rome 1830, doctor in

sacred theology 1835; professor of theology at Maynooth college

1838–50; member of the Society of Jesus 1852; teacher of

theology at the Jesuits’ college of St. Beuno, near St. Asaph

1852–8; teacher of divinity in the catholic univ. of Ireland

1858–9; superior of the Jesuits’ house of retreat at Milltown

Park, Dublin 1859 to death; Irish provincial of Society of Jesus

1863–70. _d._ Milltown Park 10 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Glasnevin

cemet. Dublin. _E. J. O’Reilly’s The relations of the church to

society_ (1892) _memoir pp. i–viii_; _Irish Monthly vi_ 695–700

(1878).

O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE (2 son of Wm. David O’Reilly, master of

the national school attached to the Netterville institution

at Dowth Castle, near Drogheda 35 years, _d._ 17 Feb. 1871).

_b._ Dowth Castle 28 June 1844; a compositor on the Guardian

newspaper at Preston 1859, reporter on the paper to March 1863;

a trooper in the 10 hussars May 1863, arrested at Island Bridge

barracks, Dublin 13 Feb. 1866, tried by court martial at the

royal barracks, Dublin 27 June 1866 for having in Dublin in

January 1866 come to the knowledge of an intended mutiny in her

majesty’s forces in Ireland and not giving information to his

commanding officer, ordered to be shot 9 July, but eventually

sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, sent to Western Australia

Oct. 1867, escaped on an American whaler April 1869; editor and

part proprietor of the Pilot newspaper in Boston 1870; took