ORKNEY, George William Hamilton Fitzmaurice, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Orkney 1803–77). b. 6 May 1827; known as viscount Kirkwall 1831–77; ensign 92 foot 8 Aug. 1845; capt. 71 foot 23 Dec. 1853; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 25 Jany. 1856, sold out 25 Sept. 1857; served at siege of Sebastopol and capture of Kertch, medal and clasp and Turkish medal; aide-de-camp to sir Henry Wood in Ionian islands 1851–4; C.M.G. 1866, K.C.M.G. 28 May 1875; succeeded 16 May 1877; a representative peer for Scotland 19 Feb. 1885 to death; author of Four years in the Ionian islands 1864. d. 26 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 21 Oct. 1889.
ORLEANS, Helene Louise Elisabeth, Duchess of (youngest dau. of Frederic Louis, grand duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, d. 1816). b. Ludwigslust castle 24 Jany. 1814; m. at palace of Fontainebleau, France 30 May 1837 Ferdinand, duke of Orleans, prince royal of France, eld. son of Louis Philippe, king of the French, the duke was killed by a fall from his carriage 13 July 1842; she escaped to Belgium at outbreak of French revolution Feb. 1848; resided chiefly in Germany 1848–57, but was very frequently in England; lived at Cambourne house, Mr. William Paynter’s villa, Richmond, Surrey 1857–8. d. Cambourne house, Richmond 18 May 1858. H. Castille’s Portraits politiques, La duchess d’Orleans (1856); The duchess of Orleans, a translation by Mrs. Austin (1859); I.L.N. 23 July 1842 pp. 168–9, 29 May 1858 p. 544 portrait; G.M. June 1858 p. 668.
ORLEBAR, John (3 son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick house, Bedfordshire 1775–1833). b. Hinwick house 19 Oct. 1810; entered navy 16 March 1824; captain 1 Jany. 1861, retired 1 Oct. 1864; admiralty surveyor in British North America 30 years; retired admiral 15 July 1887. d. 91 Pevensey road, St. Leonards-on-Sea 11 May 1891. An account of families of Boase (1893) 112.
ORMATHWAITE, John Benn-Walsh, 1 Baron (only son of sir John Benn-Walsh, 1 baronet 1759–1825). b. Warfield park, Bracknell, Berks. 9 Dec. 1798; educ. Eton; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 3 Dec. 1816; sheriff of Berkshire 1823; succeeded as 2 bart. 7 June 1825; M.P. Sudbury 1830–4, and 1838–40; contested Radnorshire 19 Jany. 1835; contested Poole 25 July 1837; M.P. Radnorshire 1840–68; lord lieutenant of Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1842, resigned 1875; cr. baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite, Cumberland 16 April 1868; author of Poor laws in Ireland in their effect upon the capital, the prosperity, and the improvement of that country 1830, 3 ed. 1831; Popular opinion on parliamentary reform, 4 ed. 1831; Observation on the ministerial plan of reform 1831; On the present balance of parties in the state, 3 ed. 1832; Chapters of contemporary history 1836; The practical result of the reform act 1860; Astronomy and geology compared 1872; Lessons of the French revolution 1873. d. Warfield park 3 Feb. 1881.
ORME, Cosmo. b. Scotland 1780; apprenticed to James Fairbairn, bookseller, Edinburgh; clerk in house of Longman and Rees, London; partner in house of Longman, Rees, Hurst, and Orme 1803, retired June 1841; the first president of the Booksellers’ provident institution 15 Feb. 1837. d. Tunbridge Wells 12 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Aug., will proved 26 Aug. personalty sworn under £200,000. Bookseller Aug. 1859 p. 1169; G.M. vii 312 (1859).
ORME, Henry Robert. b. Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham, £50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10 May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. d. 103 Shoreditch, London 9 June 1864. bur. Abney park cemetery 14 June. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 253–70, 330–8 (1880) portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring (1888) 160–7; Fights for the championship, by the editor of Bell’s Life (1860) 244–55, 405; Illust. sporting news iii 196, 203 (1864) portrait.
Note.—He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was the only man who defeated Tom Sayers.
ORMEROD, Edward Latham (6 son of the succeeding). b. London 27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851; demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7; physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. d. 14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital reports vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873); J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 503–6.
ORMEROD, George (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.) b. High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school, Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818; purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester, with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby, 3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6; Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. d. Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. G. Ormerod’s History of Chester, 2 ed. vol. 1 (1875) portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 575 (1873).
ORMEROD, George Wareing (2 son of the preceding). b. Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford, Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S. 1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874; wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club 1888. d. Woodway, Teignmouth 6 Jany. 1891. Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 56; Academy xxxix 43 (1891).