O’HEA, Michael (son of James O’Hea of Woodfield, parish of Rosscarbery). b. Woodfield 12 Aug. 1808; studied at college of Picpus, Paris 3 years, at college of Larochefoucauld, and grand séminaire of Angoulême and Irish college, Paris; sub-deacon, deacon, and priest 1834; held curacies in Ireland 1835–50; parish priest of Rosscarbery 20 April 1850; vicar general of Ross 2 Feb. 1851; bishop of Ross 28 Sept. 1857 to death, consecrated in parish church of Skibbereen 7 Feb. 1858; visited Rome 1862, 1867 and 1869. d. Ross August 1877. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 113 (1876).
O’HEA, Miss, known as “Elena Norton.” Composed operetta of ‘The rose and the ring’; In a valley far away, ballad 1876; Gather ye rosebuds, song 1878. d. Southsea boarding house, West Cliff road, Bournemouth west, early in March 1880. Athenæum i 419 (1880).
OKE, George Colwell (son of Wm. Jane Oke d. Truro July 1859). b. St. Columb Major, Cornwall 8 Feb. 1821; accountant in a solicitor’s office; assistant clerk to Newmarket bench of justices 1848; assistant clerk at the Mansion House, London 1855–64, chief clerk 1864 to death; author of The synopsis of summary convictions 1848, 2 ed. under title of The Magisterial synopsis 1849, 14 ed. 1893; An improved system of solicitors’ book keeping 1849; The Magisterial formulist 1850, 7 ed. 1893; The laws of turnpike roads 1854, 2 ed. 1861; A handy book of the game and fishery laws 1861, 2 ed. 1863; The laws as to licensing inns 1872, 2 ed. 1874. d. Rosedale, St. Mary’s road, Peckham, Surrey 9 Jany. 1874. bur. Nunhead cemet. 15 Jany. Law Journal ix, 38 (1874); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 409, 1296 (1874–8); I.L.N. lxiv 80 (1874) portrait; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait.
O’KEEFE, Adelaide D. (only dau. of John O’Keefe, dramatist 1747–1833). b. Eustace st. Dublin 5 Nov. 1776; contributed 34 poems to Taylor’s Original poems for infant minds, by several young persons, 2 vols. 1804, her pieces are signed Adelaide; author of Original poems calculated to improve the mind of youth and to allure it to virtue, Part i 1808; National characters 1808; Patriarchal times, or the land of Canaan, 2 vols. 1811, 6 ed. 1842; Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a narrative founded on history, 2 vols. 1814; A trip to the coast, poems 1819; Dudley, 3 vols. 1819; Poems for young children 1849; The broken sword, a tale 1854; she was living at 3 Spring place hill, Southampton in April 1848. d. about 1855. Athenæum 5 Dec. 1874 p. 762; N. and Q. 7 May 1887 p. 361, 18 June p. 503.
O’KEEFE, Eugene. b. Cork; educ. St. Francis Xavier college, and at the Sulpitian college, Montreal; attached to the household of the bishop of Toronto until 1864; in charge of a parish in New Jersey; a great linguist and classical scholar. d. New York 22 Sept. 1880.
O’KEEFE, John (son of Patrick O’Keefe of Abbeyville). b. Waterford 1827; educ. Clongowes coll.; sheriff of Waterford 1865; M.P. Dungarvan 1874 to death; resided Mountain castle, Cappoquin. d. Stephen’s Green club, Dublin 10 June 1877.
O’KEEFE, Mathias. b. 1830; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1860; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; librarian Queen’s coll. Cork 1855–75; examiner in the Royal university; employed as an analyst in criminal cases; professor of materia medica at Queen’s coll. Cork and lecturer on medical jurisprudence 1875 to death. d. 17 St. Patrick’s hill, Cork 19 May 1884. Medical Times 24 May 1884 p. 719.
O’KEEFE, Robert. b. Callan, co. Kilkenny; chaplain to a convent in Kilkenny, removed by Dr. Walsh, bishop of Ossory 1849; priest at Rathdowney to 1863; parish priest of Callan 1863; attempted to establish a community of nuns from Beziers in France May 1869, but Dr. Walsh refused his sanction; tried to make the National school at Callan a school for higher education, named it the Callan academy, and sought to make French the normal language of the school; brought actions for libel against his bishop, suspended Oct. 1870; suspended from all ecclesiastical functions by cardinal Cullen, acting under authority from the Pope 13 Nov. 1871; brought an action against the cardinal in queen’s bench Ireland, obtained one farthing damages 27 May 1873; submitted to the Cardinal May 1876; author of Ultramontanism versus civil and religious liberty 1875. d. 2 Feb. 1881. The Callan case 1872; Cardinal Cullen and the P. P. Callan 1872; Court of queen’s bench, R. O’Keefe against cardinal Cullen 1874; Ultramontanism versus education, the case of Father O’Keefe 1875; The Dublin review July 1873 pp. 211–38; Irish reports Common law series vii 319–444 (1874).
O’KELLY, Joseph (2 son of Matthias Joseph O’Kelly, conchologist). b. Dublin 31 Oct. 1832; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860; employed on the geological survey of Ireland 1854; secretary to the survey Oct. 1865 to death; wrote many geological memoirs, published by the survey; M.R.I.A. 1866. d. 13 April 1883. Geological Mag. (1883) 288.
OKES, Richard (19 child of Thomas Verney Okes of Cambridge, surgeon). b. Cambridge 25 Dec. 1797; educ. Eton and King’s coll. Camb., scholar 1817, fellow 1820–6, Browne’s medallist 1819–21; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1848; master at Eton 1823–38, lower master 1838–50, member of the governing body; provost of King’s coll. Camb. Nov. 1850 to death, abandoned the old regulations and obtained for the college a high rank in the university; vice-chancellor 1851; gave with Dr. Hawtrey the heraldic window in the school museum at Eton; chairman of Cambridge water co. 1858–87; edited Musæ Etonenses, new series 1796–1833, 2 vols. 1859–69; author of Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata et in curia Cantabrigiensis recitata 1819, 1820 and 1820, 3 vols. d. The lodge, King’s coll. Cambridge 25 Nov. 1888. bur. King’s college chapel. Saturday Review lxvi 647–8 (1888).