OPIE, Amelia (only child of James Alderson of Norwich, physician, d. Oct. 1825). b. Calvert st. Norwich 12 Nov. 1769; took charge of her father’s house on her mother’s death 31 Dec. 1784; wrote a tragedy entitled Adelaide about 1787; author of The dangers of coquetry 2 vols. 1790, anon.; m. at Marylebone church 8 May 1798 John Opie, the Cornish painter, who d. April 1807, aged 46; received into the Society of Friends 11 Aug. 1825; author of The father and daughter 1801, 4 ed. 1804; Poems 1802, 6 ed. 1811; Adelaide Mowbray or the mother and daughter, 3 vols. 1804, new ed. 1844; Simple Tales 1806, 4 ed. 1815; The warrior’s return and other poems 1808; Temper or domestic scenes, 3 vols. 1812; Tales of real life, 3 vols. 1813, 3 ed. 1816; Valentine’s Eve, 3 vols. 1816; New tales, 4 vols. 1818; Tales of the heart, 4 vols. 1820; Madeline, 2 vols. 1822; Illustrations of lying in all its branches, 2 vols. 1825; Detraction displayed 1828; Lays for the dead 1834, 2 ed. 1840; a collected edition of her Miscellaneous tales was published in 12 vols. 1845–7. d. Castle Meadow, Norwich 2 Dec. 1853. bur. in the Friends’ burying-ground, Gildencroft, Norwich 9 Dec. C. L. Brightwell’s Memorials of life of A. Opie (1854) portrait; C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers, 2 series (1893) 175–90 portrait; Biographical catalogue of lives of friends (1888) 473–80; A book of memories by S. C. Hall (1877) 167–80; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii 15–30 (1858); J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters ii 237–84 (1863); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 329–36; A book of sibyls by Miss Thackeray (Mrs. R. Ritchie 1883) pp. 149–96; Cornhill magazine Oct. 1883 pp. 357–82.
ORANGE, James. b. 1799; minister of the Gospel, formerly resident at Castle terrace, Nottingham; edited Narrative of the late George Vason, missionary in the ship Duff, with An essay on the South Seas, Derby 1840; author of The ecclesiastical and civil history of the town and people of Nottingham, 2 vols. 1840; Synoptica Hebræa, Anglo-Hebrew Bible expositor, a manual of self instruction, London 1858; a teacher of Hebrew at 471 Mile end road, London 1866 to death. d. 471 Mile end road, London 6 Jany. 1878. Christian World 25 Jany. 1878 p. 72.
ORANMORE, Dominick Browne, 1 Baron (2 son of Dominick Geoffrey Browne, governor of Mayo 1755–1826). b. Sackville st. Dublin 28 May 1787; educ. Eton, Edinburgh, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.P. Mayo 1814–36; P.C. Ireland 1834; lord lieutenant of Mayo 1834–42; cr. baron Oranmore and Browne of Carra Browne castle, Oranmore, co. Galway and of Castle Mac Garrett, co. Mayo 4 May 1836. d. Brighton 30 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 296 (1860).
ORCZY, Bodog, Baron. b. Hungary 1835; composer of II rinnegato, opera in 3 acts, Hungarian libretto by Farkas Deak, Italian adaptation by S. C. Marchesi, English adaptation by Frederick Corder, London 1881. d. 23 Wimpole st. London 20 Jany. 1892.
ORD, Sir Harry St. George (eld. son of Harry Gough Ord, captain R.A.). b. North Cray, Kent 17 June 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 14 Dec. 1837; adjutant of the R.E. at Chatham 1 Jany. 1852 to July 1854; brigade major of the R.E. in the Baltic July 1854; lieut. col. R.E. 28 Nov. 1859, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 16 April 1869; lieutenant governor of Dominica 2 Sept. 1857; governor of the Bermudas 16 Feb. 1861 to Nov. 1866; governor of the Straits Settlements 5 Feb. 1867 to Nov. 1873; governor of Western Australia 12 Nov. 1877, retired on a pension 6 April 1880; C.B. 9 Oct. 1865; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1867; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. d. Homburg 20 Aug. 1885. bur. in churchyard of Fornham, St. Martin, near Bury St. Edmunds, portrait in chamber of legislative council, Bermuda.
ORD, John Walker (son of Richard Ord of Guisborough, Yorkshire, tanner). b. Guisborough 5 March 1811; educ. univ. of Edinb.; apprenticed to Robert Knox the anatomist; founded in London 1834 the Metropolitan literary journal, which was merged in the Britannia; author of England, a historical poem, 2 vols. 1834–5; Remarks on the sympathetic condition existing between the body and the mind, especially during disease 1836; The Bard and minor poems 1841; Rural sketches and poems chiefly relating to Cleveland 1845; The history and antiquities of Cleveland 1846; edited Roseberry Topping, a poem by Thomas Pierson, Stockton 1847. d. Guisborough 29 Aug. 1853. J. W. Ord’s History and antiquities of Cleveland (1846) portrait.
ORD, William Redman. b. about 1792; second lieut. R.E. 25 April 1809, colonel 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 20 April 1861 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Stoke Damarel, Devonport 11 April 1872.
ORDISH, Rowland Mason (son of John Ordish, land agent and surveyor). b. Melbourne, near Derby 11 April 1824; employed by R. E. Brounger, civil engineer, London 1847, afterwards by Charles Fox; made the working drawings for the iron work of the Great Exhibition building 1851, and was engaged on the re-erection of the building at Sydenham 1852–4; chief draughtsman in the works’ department of the admiralty at Somerset house Jany. 1856 to March 1858; engineer at 18 Great George st. Westminster 1858; partner with W. H. Le Feuvre; took out a patent April 1858 for an improvement in suspension bridges, which is known as Ordish’s straight chain suspension system; designed the Franz-Joseph bridge over the Moldau at Prague 1868, and the Albert bridge over the Thames at Chelsea, opened Sept. 1873, both constructed on this principle; designed the roof of the Dutch-Rhenish railway station at Amsterdam 1863, roof of the Dublin winter palace 1865, winter garden for Leeds infirmary 1868, and the railway station at Cape Town; designed with J. W. Grover the roof of the Albert Hall at South Kensington 1870; member of the Society of Engineers 1857, president 1860. d. Stratford place, Camden Town, London 12 Sept. 1886. bur. Highgate cemet.
O’REARDON, John. b. 1776; educ. Maynooth 1797; a physician 1802; studied in Paris 1803; a prisoner in France to 1814; physician to fever hospital, Cork st. Dublin 1814–48, wrote the annual reports for 1824, 1827, 1830 and 1833; physician to Daniell O’Connell; author of De ictero 1802; A memoir of Richard Kirwan, the chemist. d. Mount Prospect, Killarney 14 March 1866. Medical Times 31 March 1866 p. 353.
O’REGAN, Anthony. b. Kiltullagh, Ireland 1809; a priest in Tuam cathedral; professor and then president of St. Jarlath’s coll. Tuam; went to U.S. of America; vicar-general of diocese of St. Louis; president of the college of Carondelet and professor of theology and sacred scriptures; bishop of Chicago 1854, resigned 1858 and was transferred to the titular see of Dora; resided in Europe 1858 to death. d. Michael’s grove, Brompton, London 13 Nov. 1866. bur. Cloonfad, co. Galway, 22 Nov. The Tablet 17 Nov. 1866 p. 721, 1 Dec. p. 764.