O’REILLY, Bernard. b. co. Longford 1803; embarked for U.S. of America 17 Jany. 1825; educ. Ecclesiastical seminary, Montreal 1825, and at St. Mary’s coll. Baltimore; ordained in New York 13 Oct. 1831; a priest at St. James’ ch. Brooklyn from 1831; devoted himself to the sick during the cholera of 1832; pastor of St. Patrick’s ch. Rochester Dec. 1832; vicar-general of the new see of Buffalo Oct, 1847; consecrated bishop of Hartford in St. Patrick’s ch. 1850; introduced Sisters of mercy to the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and protected them against a mob in 1855; went to Europe 5 Dec. 1855; embarked at Liverpool on board the steamer Pacific on his return to his diocese 23 Jany. 1856, but the ship was never again heard of, requiem masses said for him in June 1856. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in United States ii 391–407 (1872).
O’REILLY, Bernard (son of a farmer). b. Ballybeg, co. Meath 10 Jany. or June 1824; educ. at St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 10 June 1836 to 17 May 1847; received tonsure and 4 minor orders 15 Feb. 1845, sub-deacon 20 Sept. 1845, deacon 19 Dec. 1846, priest 9 May 1847; assistant priest of mission at St. Patrick’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 18 May 1847 to 8 Dec. 1852; removed to new mission of St. Vincent de Paul 8 Dec. 1852, erected a new church 1857; canon of chapter of Liverpool 24 Dec. 1862 and vicar-general; bishop of Liverpool 28 Feb. 1873 to death; consecrated at St. Vincent’s, Liverpool 19 March 1873. d. St. Edward’s coll. Everton 9 April 1894. bur. Upholland cemet. Wigan 13 April. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii 423 (1877).
O’REILLY, Dowell (4 son of Matthew O’Reilly of Knock Abbey castle, co. Louth, d. Jany. 1817). b. May 1795; called to Irish bar; barrister L.I. 17 April 1832; attorney general of Jamaica 1831–55; nominated president of legislative council there June 1855, but he died before being inaugurated. d. St. Andrews, Kingston, Jamaica 13 Sept. 1855. bur. in R.C. cemet. Kingston 14 Sept. G.M. xliv 651 (1855).
O’REILLY, Edmund Joseph. b. London 30 April 1811; studied at Maynooth and the Irish college at Rome 1830, doctor in sacred theology 1835; professor of theology at Maynooth college 1838–50; member of the Society of Jesus 1852; teacher of theology at the Jesuits’ college of St. Beuno, near St. Asaph 1852–8; teacher of divinity in the catholic univ. of Ireland 1858–9; superior of the Jesuits’ house of retreat at Milltown Park, Dublin 1859 to death; Irish provincial of Society of Jesus 1863–70. d. Milltown Park 10 Nov. 1878. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. E. J. O’Reilly’s The relations of the church to society (1892) memoir pp. i–viii; Irish Monthly vi 695–700 (1878).
O’REILLY, John Boyle (2 son of Wm. David O’Reilly, master of the national school attached to the Netterville institution at Dowth Castle, near Drogheda 35 years, d. 17 Feb. 1871). b. Dowth Castle 28 June 1844; a compositor on the Guardian newspaper at Preston 1859, reporter on the paper to March 1863; a trooper in the 10 hussars May 1863, arrested at Island Bridge barracks, Dublin 13 Feb. 1866, tried by court martial at the royal barracks, Dublin 27 June 1866 for having in Dublin in January 1866 come to the knowledge of an intended mutiny in her majesty’s forces in Ireland and not giving information to his commanding officer, ordered to be shot 9 July, but eventually sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, sent to Western Australia Oct. 1867, escaped on an American whaler April 1869; editor and part proprietor of the Pilot newspaper in Boston 1870; took part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas, Boston 1873; Songs, legends, and ballads, Boston 1878; The statues in the block and other poems 1881; Ethics of boxing and manly sports 1888; In Bohemia, poems 1886; Moondyne, a story 1889; edited The poetry and songs of Ireland 1889; author with Robert Grant, F. J. Stimson, and J. T. Wheelwright of The king’s man, a tale of tomorrow 1884, a satirical novel. d. Winthrop st. Boston 10 Aug. 1890. bur. Holyhood cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts 12 Aug. J. J. Roche’s Life of J. B. O’Reilly (1891) portrait; Cosmopolitan ix 768 (1890) portrait; Irish Monthly xiii 19 (1885).
O’REILLY, Montagu Frederick. b. 1822; entered R.N. Feb. 1835, lieut. 12 Dec. 1845, capt. 23 June 1862, retired 1 April 1870, R.A. 9 March 1878; served in the Chinese war 1841; first lieut. of Retribution in Black sea during Russian war, wounded at Odessa 22 April 1854, present at attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854, Crimean medal, two Turkish medals and the medal of the Medjidié fifth class; author of Twelve views in the Black sea and the Bosphorus, with letterpress 1856, the original sketches are at Windsor Castle. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 20 May 1888.
O’REILLY, Myles William Patrick (only son of Wm. O’Reilly of Knock abbey, co. Louth 1792–1844). b. Dublin 13 March 1825; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham; B.A. London 1845, LL.D. Rome 1847; sheriff of co. Louth 1848; captain Louth rifles militia; major in service of Pius IX, commanded the Irish brigade, defended Spoleto against the Piedmontese troops Sept. 1860, but was obliged to surrender; M.P. co. Longford March 1862 to April 1879; assistant comr. of intermediate education in Ireland April 1879 to death; author of Progress of catholicity in Ireland in the nineteenth century 1865; Memorials of those who suffered for the Catholic faith in Ireland 1868, reprinted under the title of Lives of the Irish martyrs and confessors, New York 1878. d. Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. bur. Philipstown near Knock Abbey.
ORFORD, Horatio Walpole, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 earl of Oxford 1752–1822). b. Whitehall, London 14 June 1783; styled lord Walpole 1809–22; M.P. for King’s Lynn 1809–22; a lord of the admiralty 12 June 1811; secretary of embassy at St. Petersburgh 5 July 1812 to 5 April 1825 when pensioned, minister ad interim 1814–5; a comr. for the affairs of India 17 June 1818 to 17 Feb. 1822; succeeded to the peerage 15 June 1822; colonel West Norfolk militia 26 June 1822; high steward of Great Yarmouth 1833–6. d. Wolterton park, Aylsham, Norfolk 29 Dec. 1858.
ORFORD, Horatio Walpole, 4 Earl of (eld. child of preceding). b. Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 18 April 1813; styled lord Walpole 1822–58; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. for East Norfolk 1835–7; succeeded to the peerage 29 Dec. 1858. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1894.
O’RIORDAN, Daniell O’Connell. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880. d. 13 Aug. 1890.