ORMEROD, Thomas Johnson (brother of the preceding). b. 27 July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to 1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges, lectures, and sermons. d. Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec. 1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200. I.L.N. lxv 571 (1874).
ORMEROD, William Piers (brother of the preceding). b. Welbeck st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec 1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, d. Canterbury 10 June 1860. bur. St. Martin’s, Canterbury. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports, vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873).
ORMISTON, Thomas. b. Edinburgh 28 July 1826; worked as a builder with his father and uncle; an engineer working on the Clyde 1846–64; erected the Needles Rock lighthouse 1856–7; chief engineer to Elphinstone land and press company of Bombay 1864–73, reclaimed 328 acres of land from the sea; chief engineer of Bombay port trust 1873–77; constructed the Bombay wet dock 1875–80; fellow of univ. of Bombay; dean of faculty of engineering there 1879; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1880. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 9 July 1882. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi 409–15 (1883).
ORMOND, Francis (son of capt. Ormond of the mercantile marine). b. Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1829; educ. Liverpool; a squatter in Victoria, Australia, made a fortune; gave £40,000 for building the Presbyterian coll. Melbourne 1877–87; contributed to the Working men’s coll. 1887 and was the first president; founded Ormond coll. Melbourne; gave £20,000 to endow a chair of music at the Melbourne univ. 1887; member of legislative council; resided Egoleen, Toorak, Melbourne. d. Pau, France 5 May 1889, left £40,000 to Ormond coll., £10,000 to Melbourne Working men’s coll., and many other gifts to institutions and charities. P. Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 356–7; Times 11 May 1889 p. 12.
ORMONDE, John Butler, 2 Marquess of (eld. child of James Butler, 1 marquess of Ormonde 1774–1838). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 24 Aug. 1808; educ. Harrow 1821 etc.; known as viscount Thurles 1808–38; succeeded as 2 marquess 22 May 1838; hereditary chief butler of Ireland 1838 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Sept. 1841 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. 1853 to death; K.P. 17 Sept. 1845; author of An autumn in Sicily, an account of the remains of antiquity in that island, Dublin 1850; translated F. P. G. Guizot’s Meditations and moral sketches 1855, and A. Dumas’ Memoirs of a mâitre d’ armes 1856. d. Loftus hall, co. Wexford 25 Sept. 1854. bur. in Kilkenny cathedral 2 Oct. G.M. xlii 505 (1854); I.L.N. xxv 361 (1854).
ORMONDE, Alfred. b. Kilkenny 19 March 1816; dramatist. d. April or May 1852. Leipsig Illustrated News 23 May 1852 portrait.
ORMSBY, Arthur Sydney (youngest son of rev. Owen Ormsby). b. Seatown house, Dundalk Feb. 1825; articled to George Halpin, engineer 1839–44; resident engineer on a portion of Midland great western line; an engineer in U.S. of America 1849–51; assistant colonial engineer Melbourne, Australia 1852; executive engineer public works department Calcutta 1858–61; experimented on the water supply to London 1861, proposing to collect the rain fall before it reached the ground, and to discriminate between the potable water and the water for ordinary purposes; constructed water works at Hillbottom, Berks.; author of A new idea for the water supply of towns 1867. d. London 24 Feb. 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix 479–81 (1887).
ORMSBY, Henry W. (son of Henry Ormsby, R. of Kilskier, co. Meath). b. Kilskier Feb. 1812; educ. Trinity college, Dublin, B.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s Inns 1874; solicitor general for Ireland 1868 and 12 March 1874; attorney general 21 Jany. to 12 Nov. 1875; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1875; judge of landed estates court 12 Nov. 1875; judge of chancery division of high court of justice in Ireland 1878–85. d. Marine terrace, Bray 17 Sept. 1887. Law Times 1 Oct. 1887 p. 386.
ORMSBY, John William. Second lieut. R.A. 6 Aug. 1828; colonel R.A. 9 Aug. 1858; M.G. 5 April 1866; lieut. governor and commandant royal military academy Woolwich 1 April 1867 to death. d. Woolwich 17 March 1869.
ORNSBY, George (eld. son of George Ornsby of the Lodge, Lanchester, Durham, d. 1823). b. Darlington, Durham 9 March 1809; educ. Durham gr. sch. 1823–7; practised as a solicitor in Durham; studied theology at Univ. coll. Durham 1839–41; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1841–3; C. of Sedgefield, Durham 1843–4; C. of Whickham, Durham 1845–50; V. of Fishlake, South Yorkshire July 1850 to death; hon. M.A. Durham 1872; F.S.A. 29 May 1873; preb. of York 15 Feb. 1879 to death; author of Sketches of Durham 1846; York 1882 in Diocesan histories; edited for the Surtees society The works and letters of D. Granville, dean of Durham 1861–5; The correspondence of John Cosin, bishop of Durham, 2 vols. 1869–72, and Selections from the household book of lord William Howard of Naworth castle 1878. d. Fishlake vicarage 17 April 1886. Proc. of soc. of antiq. xi 376 (1886); Biograph July 1881 pp. 26–8.