ORR, William Somerville. Publisher at 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 1837–59; the London publisher of W. & R. Chambers’ works 1850; published Orr’s Circle of the Sciences, 9 vols. 1854–6; A primary atlas of ancient and modern geography 1855; in the employment of Chapman and Hall, publishers, London, at time of his death. d. 129 Blenheim crescent, Notting Hill, London 6 Jany. 1873. The Publishers’ circular 1 Feb. 1873 p. 72.
ORRIDGE, Benjamin Brogden. b. 1814; a medical agent and valuer at 30 Bucklersbury, London; common councilman for ward of Cheap 1863–9; chairman of the library committee of city of London; F.G.S.; member of London and Middlesex archæological society to 1870; author of A letter on eminent Londoners and civic records 1866; Some account of the citizens of London and their rulers from 1060 to 1867, 1867; Some particulars of alderman Philip Malpas and alderman sir Thomas Cooke, K.B. 1868; Illustrations of Jack Cade’s rebellion from researches in the Guildhall records 1869. d. 33 St. John’s Wood park, London 17 July 1870. Trans. of London and Middlesex Archæol. Soc. iv 70–1 (1871).
ORRIDGE, Ellen Amelia (eld. dau. of Edward Orridge of 2 Houghton place, Ampthill square, London). b. London 1856; educ. Royal academy of music under Manuel Garcia 1875, took bronze medal 1876, silver and gold medal 1877, Parepa gold medal, second Christine Nilsson prize and certificate of the Academy 1878; had a fine contralto voice; sang in Mr. Pyatt’s autumnal tour concerts 1877 and 1878, at John Boosey’s ballad concerts 1878, and at A. and S. Gatti’s promenade concerts 1878; sang in oratorios at Birmingham and other places. d. Guernsey 16 Sept. 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 21 Sept. Illust. sp. and dr. news x 265, 271 (1878) portrait.
ORROCK, Hector Heatley (2 son of James Orrock, dentist). b. Edinburgh; educ. Edinb. high sch. under Dr. Boyd; with an architect in Edinb. to 1853; architect in London 1853–4, and in Edinb. from 1854 to death; exhibited drawings at Royal Scottish academy exhibitions. d. 19 Broughton place, Edinburgh 15 Feb. 1862.
ORTON, Charles James. b. 1817; solicitor in city of London 1843 to death; sworn attorney of the mayor’s court and clerk of enrolment in the court of hustings 1848 to death, his duties were to attend the lord mayor as legal adviser and assessor at all wardmotes where he presided, and on the election of an alderman and to enrol all deeds in the court of hustings, served under 45 lord mayors and witnessed the election of 72 aldermen; master of the Clothworkers’ company July 1883 to July 1884. d. Ferry house, River side, Twickenham 6 Feb. 1893.
ORTON, James. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 26 March 1809, surgeon 17 May 1820, retired 15 Jany. 1840; member of Bombay medical board 1835, president Jany. 1838 to 15 Jany. 1840. d. 3 Oxford parade, Cheltenham 15 Feb. 1857.
ORTON, Reginald (only son of James Orton, inspector-general of Bombay hospitals). b. Surat, near Bombay 27 Jany. 1810; educ. Richmond gr. sch. Yorkshire; apprenticed to his father in Bombay; studied at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1833; L.S.A. 1834; surgeon at Sunderland 1834 to 1861 or 1862; surgeon to Sunderland eye infirmary; was the means of Sunderland obtaining its system of gas lighting, water supply, &c.; one of the chief agents in obtaining the repeal of the duty on glass and windows 24 April 1845; patented in 1845 a new form of reel lifebuoy and a new lifeboat; invented an æther inhaling apparatus. d. Ford North farm, Bishopwearmouth 1 Sept. 1862. G.M. Nov. 1862 pp. 644–6.
OSBALDESTON, George (son of George Osbaldeston of Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, d. 1794). b. Wimpole st. London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8, and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs. he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket 5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won; fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17 April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the Squire. d. 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866. C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana (1867) 6–54; Baily’s Mag. ii 295–306 (1861) portrait; Sporting Review lvi 170–80 (1866) portrait; Day’s Reminiscences of the turf (1891) 84, 85; Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck (1892) 402–8; Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences (1843) 43–6; Wildrake’s Cracks of the day (1841) 32–5; H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport (1895); Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 342 (1862); Grace’s Cricket (1891) 21 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news ix 144, 163 (1878) portrait.
OSBORN, George (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper 1764–1836). b. Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester 1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863 and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols. 1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. d. 24 Cambrian road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. Wesleyan Methodist mag. June 1891 pp. 468–78 portrait; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp. 124, 126 portrait, 2 May 1891 p. 563 portrait.
OSBORN, Marmaduke Clark (4 son of Samuel Osborn, cutler). b. Sheffield 22 Oct. 1827; educ. Richmond; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Cambridge 1850–3, at Liverpool 1859–65, 1871–4, and at London 1868–71; missionary secretary, London 1877 to death; secretary of the conference 1878–80; corrected and enlarged William Hill’s An alphabetical arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist ministers 11 ed. 1869, 12 ed. 1874, 13 ed. 1878, and 14 ed. 1882. d. of influenza at Hydropathic establishment, Baslow, Derbyshire 11 May 1891. bur. Norwood cemet. 15 May. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. July 1891 pp. 553–5; J. E. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London (1870) 227; Methodist Recorder 14 May 1891 p. 377 portrait.