OATES, Francis (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside, Yorkshire). b. Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America 1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873 and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river; started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi 31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. d. of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. Matabele land and the Victoria falls, a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F. Oates, ed. by C. J. Oates 1881, 2 ed. (1889) memoir pp. xix–xlii and portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv, p. clii (1875).
OATES, James Poole. b. 1768; ensign 88 foot 3 March 1797, captain 19 Oct. 1804, placed on h.p. 26 March 1818; served in the West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, and South America; present at almost every siege and battle in the Peninsular war; received the gold medal for Egypt and the silver war medal with ten clasps; lieut. col. in the army 22 July 1830; K.H. 1837. d. 6 Linden grove, Notting hill, London 4 April 1863.
OATES, William Wilfrid. b. 1828; publisher of Roman catholic books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st. Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and Oates to death. d. 28 Dec. 1876.
O’BRIEN, Bartholomew (son of Bartholomew O’Brien of Harbledown, Canterbury). b. 18 June 1818; ensign 2 West India regiment 15 April 1836, lieut. 1838–40; lieut. 77 foot 23 July 1841, major 20 April 1855; major 87 foot 17 Aug. 1855; lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859; lieut. col. military train 15 Nov. 1859, placed on h.p. 12 Sept. 1870; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny and in New Zealand 1863–7; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 1 Addison road, Bedford park, Chiswick, Middlesex 8 March 1885.
O’BRIEN, Cornelius (son of Henry O’Brien of Birckfield, co. Clare). b. Birckfield 1782; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; admitted attorney 1811; M.P. Clare 1832–52, and 1852–7. d. about 1857.
O’BRIEN, Dominic. b. Waterford 5 July 1798; studied theology at the Propaganda college, Rome; D.D.; ordained priest at Rome 1821; chaplain to the Ursuline convent, Waterford; president of St. John’s college, Waterford; one of the secretaries to the synod of Thurles 1850; parish priest of St. Patrick’s, Waterford; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 July 1855 to death, consecrated 30 Sept. 1855. d. at the Episcopal residence, George st. Waterford 12 June 1873. bur. in St. John’s cath. Munster Express 14 June 1873 p. 4; Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 76 (1876).
O’BRIEN, Donat Henchy (2 son of Michael O’Brien of Ennistimon, co. Clare). b. Ireland 5 Nov. 1784; entered navy 16 Dec. 1796; master’s mate of the Hussar frigate, when she was wrecked on the Saints (Ile de Sein) 8 Feb. 1804; a prisoner of war at Verdun 1804, escaped Nov. 1808; lieut. of the Warrior 29 March 1809, assisted at the reduction of Ionian Islands; lieut. of the Amphion March 1810, served in action off Lissa 13 March 1811; commanded the Slaney on the South American station 1818–21; captain 5 March 1821; R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; author of The narrative of captain O’Brien, containing an account of his shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France 1814; My adventures during the late war, comprising a narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, &c. from 1804–27, 2 vols. 1839 portrait. d. Yew house, Hoddesdon 13 May 1857, memorial window in Broxbourne church.
O’BRIEN, Fitz James (son of an attorney-at-law). b. Limerick 1828; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; went to London and spent his fortune of £8,000; edited a periodical in aid of the World’s fair 1851; went to U.S. of America about 1852, where he wrote in the Lantern, Home journal, Evening Post, New York times, American Whig review, and the Atlantic monthly; contributed more than 66 articles to Harper’s Mag. from Feb. 1853; author of The Diamond lens and other stories 1881; What was it 1889; wrote A gentleman from Ireland and other pieces for the theatres; the most able of the brilliant set of Bohemians in New York; joined the 7th regiment of New York national guard 1861. d. Cumberland, Virginia 6 April 1862, having been wounded in a skirmish 26 Feb. bur. Greenwood cemetery. The Diamond Lens (1887) memoir pp. vii–xx; Appleton’s American Biography iv 549 (1888) portrait.
O’BRIEN, James (2 son of Daniel O’Brien of Granard, co. Longford, wine merchant). b. 1805; educ. at Edgworthstown school and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829; student at Gray’s Inn 24 March 1830; acting editor of Henry Hetherington’s Poor man’s guardian, an unstamped paper 1831; wrote in Hetherington’s Poor man’s conservative, signed his articles Bronterre, and called himself subsequently James Bronterre O’Brien; started Bronterre’s National Reformer 1837, and in 1838 the Operative, which ceased July 1839; a delegate to the Chartist meeting in Palace yard, Westminster 17 Sept. 1838; contributed violent articles to the Northern Star 1839; tried at Newcastle Feb. 1840 on a charge of conspiracy, when acquitted, but sentenced at Liverpool April 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment for seditious speaking; quarrelled with Feargus O’Connor, who called him the ‘Starved Viper’; edited the British Statesman June to Dec. 1842, and The National Reformer 1845; a delegate to Chartist convention 4 April 1848, but withdrew 9 April; edited Reynold’s Newspaper for short time in 1848; lectured on his scheme of social reform at John st. institute and at the Eclectic institute, Denmark st. Soho, London; author of The life and character of Maximilian Robespierre 1837, vol. 1, no more published; Ode to lord Palmerston 1856; An ode to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1857; An elegy on the death of Robespierre 1857; A vision of hell, lord Overgrown’s dream, his lordship’s reunion with sir Robert Peel in the regions below 1859. d. Hermes st. Pentonville, London 23 Dec. 1864. R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartist movement (1854) 114 et seq.
O’BRIEN, James. b. 1810; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1843, M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1859; entered Magdalen hall, Oxf.; incorporated B.A. at Hertford coll. 1861, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1863; P.C. of St. Patrick, Hove, Brighton 1858, built a church at his own cost £20,000, 1868, the patronage of which he bequeathed to Hove; he figures in Cuthbert Bede’s novel Mattins and Mutton’s, or the beauty of Brighton, 2 vols. 1866, as Dr. O’Lion vol i, p. 319 et seq. d. St. Patrick’s parsonage 8 Jany. 1884.