OKEY, Charles Henry (son of Henry Okey). b. 7 April 1797; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1805 and at Heidelberg univ.; barrister I.T. 9 May 1823; private sec. to lord Stuart de Rothesay, when ambassador to France 1828–30; counsel to British embassy at Paris; police magistrate Antigua 1862, puisne justice and member of council Aug. 1863; knight of legion of honor; author of Droit d’ Aubaine de la Grande Britaine, Paris 1830, 2 ed. 1831; A concise digest of the law affecting the commercial and civil intercourse of the subjects of Great Britain and France, 2 ed. 1829, 6 ed. 1842. d. 1876.
OKEY, Elizabeth. b. 1824; she and her sister Jane, b. 1826, were cured of epileptic fits by Dr. John Elliotson by mesmerism; they were experimented on by Dr. Elliotson at his residence in Conduit st. Hanover sq. London 1842, before audiences, when he made them do many wonderful things in a mesmeric state; E. Okey was an inmate of University college hospitals under Dr. John Elliotson from April 1837; she developed a power of seeing spirits sitting on the beds of patients who were about to die, which had a baneful effect on all the patients; turned out of the the hospital 28 Dec. 1838. T. Wakley’s Undeniable facts concerning practices of Dr. Elliotson with E. & J. Okey (1842); The Lancet 5 Jany. 1839 pp. 561–2, 590–7.
OLD, John. b. Totnes 1829; studied under John and Edward Loder 1842, and at Royal academy of music under sir W. S. Bennett, and afterwards under Thalberg and Molique; conductor of Torquay choral soc. 1855–9; settled at Reading 1859, where he founded the Layston college of music, which had 200 pupils; composer of The seventh seal, a sacred drama 1853; The battle, a dramatic solo and chorus 1854; Herne, a legend of royal Windsor, an opera in 3 acts, libretto by E. Oxenford 1879, performed at Reading; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces of music 1849–79; he also contributed essays to The Monthly musical record. d. Reading 4 Feb. 1892.
OLDAKER, William Fitzhardinge (son of Tom Oldaker, huntsman). b. Woodbank, Gerrard’s Cross 1810; a saddler at Finsbury and Upper Brook street, London, his hunting saddles were in much request; a dealer in horses; rode in a steeplechase 1838; managed the stag hunting establishments of barons Lionel and Nathaniel Rothschild; ran a match with John Darby at Horncastle; retired and lived at Gerrard’s cross, Middlesex; resided at Newbold-on-Avon near Rugby 1865, where he hunted with all the neighbouring packs; retired to Woodbank, Chester 1880. d. Woodbank 6 Sept. 1884. W. Day’s Turf Celebrities (1891) 107–16; Baily’s Mag. xliii 121–2 (1885).
OLDFIELD, John (only son of John Nicholls Oldfield, lieutenant in royal marines, d. 1793). b. Portsmouth 29 May 1789; 2 lieut. R.E. 2 April 1806, captain 26 Jany. 1815, placed on h.p. April 1819; served at battle of Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; commanded the R.E. in Newfoundland Sept. 1830 to Oct. 1835, in Jersey Oct. 1835 to March 1839, and in Canada March 1839 to 1843, where he served during the rebellion; K.H. 23 July 1830; A.D.C. to the queen 9 Nov. 1841; colonel R.E. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 25 Oct. 1859 to death; commanded the R.E. in Ireland 1848–54; general 3 April 1862; contributed Memoranda on the use of asphalte to the Professional papers of the corps of the R.E., new series, vols. 3 and 5. d. Oldfield lawn, Emsworth, Sussex 2 Aug. 1863. bur. Westbourne.
OLDHAM, James. b. 17 Jany. 1817; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1865; in practice at 53 Norfolk square, Brighton 1842–80; a founder of the Brighton and Sussex medical chirurgical soc. 1847, president; purchased and supported a coffee tavern; chief supporter of St. Christopher’s home for sick children at Hayward’s Heath. d. Lucastes, Hayward’s Heath 26 Dec. 1881. Lancet i 40 (1882).
OLDHAM, James (son of a millwright). b. Hull 23 June 1801; at sea in the Baltic 1815–7; an apprentice to his father 1817; built a movable bridge for Hull corporation; reclaimed for the commissioners of woods and forests 700 acres in the estuary of the Humber 1850; government inspector of steamers for Hull; gave evidence before parliamentary committee on public works connected with Hull; wrote a paper on the Reclamation of land from seas and estuaries, for which he obtained Council premium of Institution of Civil engineers 1862; superintended tidal observations on the Humber, Trent and Ouse for British Association 1862–4; took George Bohn into partnership 1874, made the Hull and Barnsley railway and the Alexandra dock; M.I.C.E. 28 Jany. 1834. d. Hull 10 June 1890. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 377–80 (1891).
OLDHAM, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Oldham). b. Dublin 4 May 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin 1832, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846, LL.D. 1874; chief geological assistant in ordnance survey of Ireland 1839, surveyed counties of Kerry and Tyrone 1843; assistant professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, professor of geology 1845–51; president of Dublin geological society 1846; local director for Ireland of geological survey of the United Kingdom 1846; discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, co. Wicklow, the fossils or organic marks named after him Oldhamia 1849; superintendent of geological survey of India Nov. 1850, retired 1876; M.R.I.A. 1842; F.G.S. 1843; F.R.S. 9 June 1848, royal medallist 1875; member of royal Asiatic society of Bengal 1857, president four times; author of On the geological structure of part of the Khasi hills 1854; Memoirs of the geological survey of India, Palentologia Indica 1861; Memoranda on the result of an examination of the salt range in the Punjab 1864; Catalogue of the meteoric stones in the museum of the Geological survey of India 1865, 2 ed. 1868; Catalogue of the organic remains belonging to the echinodermata 1865; edited Records of the Geological survey of India 1868 etc. d. 18 Hillmorton’s road, Rugby 17 July 1878. Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv 46–8 (1879); Geological Mag. (1878) 382.
OLDHAM, Wilton. b. 1835; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A., LL.B. and LL.D. 1865; of Bengal civil service; magistrate at Ghazipore; C. of St. Michael, Louth 1878–80; C. of Stoke Bishop, Bristol 1880 to death; author of Historical and statistical memoir of Ghazipore 2 vols. 1870–6; Tenant right and auction sales in Ghazipore 1873. d. St. Servan, France 2 Oct. 1883.
OLDKNOW, Sir James (son of John Oldknow). b. Nottingham 1821; a lace manufacturer; alderman of Nottingham, mayor 1869, 1878, and 1879; after the visit of the prince and princess of Wales to open the Castle Art museum, knighted at Osborne 14 Aug. 1878. d. Villa road, Nottingham 4 Jany. 1888.