ODGER, George, (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). b. Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London; member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder of the International association; a member of the National reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for Bristol July 1870; contested Southwark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874; president of general council of international association of working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers; Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger v. the publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary Review 1870–71. d. 18 High st. Bloomsbury, London 4 March 1877. bur. Brompton cemetery 10 March. The life of George Odger (1877); London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait; W. E. Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 350–2; Graphic xv 270 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 257 (1877) portrait; Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 633–4; Littell’s Living age cxxxiii 2 (1877), a poem.
O’DOHERTY, William James. b. Dublin 1835; worked in the studio of Joseph R. Kirk, R.H.A., sculptor 1852–4; came to London 1854; exhibited under name of W. J. Dogherty at the R.A. 1857 a model in plaster of Gondoline, afterwards executed in marble for R. C. L. Bevan, the banker; sent to the R.A. the model of marble statue of Erin 1860, engraved by T. W. Knight for the Art Journal 1861; called himself Doherty 1860–1, but took name of O’Doherty 1862; exhibited 6 sculptures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1857–64; went to Rome about 1865. d. the hospital of La Charité in Berlin Feb. 1868. Art Journal (1861) 252, (1868) 73.
O’DONEL, Sir George Clendining, 5 Baronet (elder son of sir Richard Annesley O’Donel, 4 bart. 1808–78). b. Newport house, co. Mayo 15 June 1832; ensign 62 foot 22 Dec. 1848, lieut. 23 May 1851, sold out 1852; knighted by the lord lieutenant at Dublin castle 21 Feb. 1865, in compliance with the clause in the patent of baronetcy 1780; succeeded as 5 baronet 9 Nov. 1878. d. Norwood, Surrey 22 Jany. 1889.
O’DONNELL, Sir Charles Routledge (son of lieut. col. H. A. O’Donnell, C.B. of Limerick). b. 1794; ensign 2 foot 9 Sept. 1813; lieut. 15 hussars 7 Sept. 1815, major 14 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; colonel on the staff in Ireland 1843–50; col. 18 hussars 10 Sept. 1864 to death; general 2 April 1865; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem; M.R.I.A.; resided at Trugh, near Limerick. d. Donyland lodge, near Colchester 18 Nov. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 555 (1870).
O’DONNELL, John Francis (son of a shopkeeper). b. Limerick 1837; a reporter on the Manchester News 1854–6; wrote verse and prose in The Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland party 1854 to death; sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, a Clonmel paper 1856–60; on the staff of the Universal News, a weekly R.C. paper in London 1860–2; on the staff of The Nation in Dublin 1862–4, and editor of Duffy’s Hibernian Mag. 1862–4; edited the Universal News 1864–5, and sub-edited The Tablet 1865–8; contributed numerous poems advocating republican principles to the Dublin national journals under pseudonyms of Caviare and Monkton West; London correspondent of the Irish People, the organ of the Fenian movement 1864–5; sent poems to All the year round 1861–2; employed in the London office of the agent-general of New Zealand Sept. 1873 to death; author of The emerald wreath, Dublin 1865; Memoirs of the Irish Franciscans 1871. d. London 7 May 1874. bur. Kensal Green cemet. J. F. O’Donnell’s Poems (1891) memoir pp. vii–xxi; M. McDonogh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 94–8 two portraits.
O’DONNELL, Laurence, D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. d. Taylor’s hill, Galway 23 June 1855. bur. 25 June. The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855 p. 2, 27 June p. 2.
O’DONNELL, Matthew (eld. son of Richard O’Donnell of Kilkenny). b. 1813; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Westmeath 1870; author of A treatise on the law of actions in the civil bill court 1844; A commentary upon the jurisdiction of the court of the assistant barrister 1852; and with Francis Brady of An analytical digest of the cases in courts of equity in Ireland and the house of lords 1840. d. 36 Mountjoy square, Dublin 20 Jany. 1876. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin. Law Times lx 279 (1876); Irish Law Times x 61 (1876).
O’DONNELL, Patrick. b. Meeracladdy, near Derrybeg in Donegal 1835; in America 1859–79; served in Federal army during civil war; kept a public house on the Canadian frontier; sent by the Fenians to the Cape on board the Kinfauns Castle to make away with James Carey, the Fenian crown witness in the Phœnix park murders case, shot him on board the steamer Melrose between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth 29 July 1883, brought to England, tried at the Old Bailey 30 Nov., 1 Dec. 1883, hanged at Newgate 17 Dec. 1883, monument in Roman catholic cemetery Dublin. I.L.N. lxxxiii 300, 302, 545 (1883) two portraits.
O’DONOGHUE, Daniel, known as The O’Donoghue (only child of Charles James O’Donoghue O’Donoghue of the Glens, co. Kerry, d. 1833). b. 1833; educ. Stonyhurst; major of Kelly militia; M.P. Tipperary 1857–65; M.P. Tralee 1865–85; author of A letter to cardinal Manning on his expression of confidence in Mr. Parnell 1886. d. Ballsmahon court, Athlone 7 Oct. 1889. Illust. Times 16 Feb. 1867 p. 97, view of the O’Donoghue addressing the reform meeting in the Agricultural hall, London.
O’DONOGHUE, John. b. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1831, B.A. 1833; called to Irish bar 1837; contributed to the Freeman’s Journal 1838, editor of the Journal 1871; wrote many literary articles in Dublin univ. mag.; author of A book about the Irish bar in 1840; The summary jurisdiction of magistrates at the petty sessions courts in Ireland 1835; Historical memoirs of the O’Briens 1860. d. 9 Henrietta st. London 23 March 1893.