O’DONOGHUE, Patrick. b. Ireland; sentenced to death for high treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. d. New York Feb. 1854.
O’DONOVAN, Edmund (son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 13 Sept. 1844; studied medicine at Trin. coll. Dublin, clerk to the registrar and assistant librarian; contributed to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers from 1866; served in the légion etrangère of the French army Sept. 1870, took part in the battles round Orleans, was wounded and made prisoner; described in the Times and the Hour the Carlist rising in Spain 1873; correspondent of the Daily News in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1876, and in Asia Minor 1877–8; went to Merv 1879, detained there several months; author of The Merv oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian, 2 vols. 1882; went to the Soudan for the Daily News 1883, attached himself to army of Hicks Pasha which marched on Obeid, the army fell into an ambush and O’Donovan was killed 3–5 Nov. 1883, probate of his will was not granted till 1891; brass tablet designed by Herbert Johnson in memory of O’Donovan and six other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections (1892) 1–25; Graphic xxiv 609 (1881) portrait, xxviii 529 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 96 (1883) portrait, lxxxiii 532 (1883) portrait, lxxxv 576 (1884) portrait.
O’DONOVAN, John (4 son of Edmond O’Donovan, farmer, d. 29 July 1817). b. at farm of Attateemore, at foot of Tory hill, Kilkenny 9 July 1809; worked in the Irish record office 1826, and in the historical department of ordnance survey of Ireland 1829; wrote many articles in the Dublin Penny Journal 1832–3, and in the Irish Penny Journal 1840–1; student at Gray’s Inn 15 April 1844, called to Irish bar 1847; employed by the commission for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland 1852 to death; LL.D. Dublin 1850; granted civil list pension of £50, 5 June 1856; author of A grammar of the Irish language, for the use of the senior classes in the college of St. Columba 1845; Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, 7 vols. 1851. d. 36 Upper Buckingham st. Dublin 9 Dec. 1861. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin, his widow Mary Anne O’Donovan granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1863. J. T. Gilbert’s Memoir of John O’Donovan; J. O’Donovan’s Annala Rioghachta vi 2160–1 (1851); Dublin univ. mag. lix 85–8 (1862).
O’DOWD, James Klyne. b. 1802; called to Irish bar Michaelmas term 1832; solicitor for merchant shipping; assistant solicitor of customs; published The law relating to the sale of estates in Ireland 1849; Customs’ administrators and customs’ reformers, the digest of the Charlotte row committee 1851, 2 ed. 1853; The new practice of the court of chancery 1852; The merchant shipping amendment act 1863; The law and facts of the case of the Alabama 1873. d. 24 Nov. 1879. Law Times lxviii 140 (1879).
Note.—It was upon his legal advice the government declined to take steps to prevent the construction of the Alabama 1862.
O’DWYER, Andrew Carew (son of Joseph O’Dwyer of Cork and Waterford, merchant). b. 1800; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; M.P. Drogheda 15 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834, re-chosen 12 Jany. 1835 but unseated on petition 24 April 1835; secondary of Irish exchequer; connected with periodical press during agitation for Catholic relief act; author of Danger of conceding ecclesiastical securities, Concordat in the Netherlands 1829; Belgium in 1828, Ireland in 1851, 1851; The catholic question of 1851, considered 1851. d. 15 Nov. 1877. Law Times lxiv 91 (1877).
O’FARRELL, Michael Joseph. b. Limerick 2 Dec. 1832; ordained R.C. priest 18 Aug. 1855; professor of dogmatic theology in the college of the Sulpitian order in Paris; professor in the Sulpitian seminary at Montreal; pastor of St. Patrick’s church, New York, then of St. Peter’s, New York 1869–72; pastor at Rondout 1872, then at St. Peter’s again 1872–81; bishop of Trenton 1881 to death, consecrated in New York cathedral by cardinal McClosky. d. Trenton 1 or 2 April 1894.
O’FERRALL, Richard More (eld. son of Ambrose O’Ferrall of Balyna, co. Kildare 1752–1835). b. Balyna, Kildare 1797; M.P. co. Kildare 1830–47 and 1859–65; M.P. co. Longford 21 April 1851 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1835 to 28 Aug. 1839; secretary to the admiralty 4 Oct. 1839 to 9 June 1841; secretary to the treasury 9 June 1841; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1847 to 1851; P.C. 22 Nov. 1847. d. Kingstown, near Dublin 27 Oct. 1880. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of right rev. Dr. Doyle i 394, ii 110, 558 (1880).
OFFICER, Sir Robert (son of Robert Officer). b. Scotland 1800; educ. St. Andrew’s univ., B.A., M.A.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; went to Van Diemen’s Land; government medical officer for New Norfolk; practised at Hobart Town in partnership with James Wilson Agnew; assistant colonial surgeon in Van Diemen’s Land; member of the legislative council for Buckingham 1853; member of house of assembly for Glenorchy Sept. 1856 to April 1877, chairman of committees 1856–61; speaker of the house Aug. 1861 to April 1877; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Hall Green, near New Norfolk, Tasmania 8 July 1879.
OFFOR, George (son of George Offor). b. 1787; bookseller at 2 Postern row, Tower Hill, London, where he acquired a fortune; made a collection of early printed English bibles, psalters, and testaments, and a unique collection of Bunyan’s works, the greater part of his library was burnt in Sotheby’s auction rooms 29 June 1865; author of An easy introduction to reading the Hebrew language 1814; The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpation of the church 1846; edited The Hebrew psalter revised 1820; The New Testament by W. Tyndale 1836; The Pilgrim’s progress 1847 for Hanserd Knolly’s society; The Pilgrim’s progress 1856, 3 ed. 1884; The works of John Bunyan, 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1862; Profitable meditations being Christ and a sinner by J. Bunyan 1860; Little books by J. Bunyan 1873. d. Grove house, Grove st. South Hackney 4 Aug. 1864. bur. Abney Park cemet. G.M. Oct. 1864 p. 528.