OSMENT, David. b. 24 June 1775; initiated in the Lodge of benevolence, No. 459, at Sherborne Jany. 1820; J.D. and S.D., tyler for 20 years and janitor to the chapter for five years; an annuitant on the Royal masonic benevolent fund 1850 to death. d. Sherborne, Dorset 21 March 1875. I.L.N. 10 April 1875 p. 345 portrait.
OSSINGTON, John Evelyn Denison, 1 Viscount (eld. son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison of Ossington, Notts., M.P. Chichester, d. 6 May 1820). b. Ossington 27 Jany. 1800; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 22 June 1870; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1823–6; M.P. Hastings 1826–30; M.P. Notts. 1831–2; M.P. South Notts. 1832–7; M.P. Malton 1841–57; M.P. North Notts. 1857–72; counsel to the lord high admiral 2 May 1827 to 4 Feb. 1828; speaker of house of commons 30 April 1857 to 8 Feb. 1872, when he retired, but refused the usual pension; mainly instrumental in passing 18 and 19 Vict. c. 34, ‘1855 An act to provide for the education of children in the receipt of outdoor relief,’ which is known as Denison’s act; P.C. 6 May 1857; cr. viscount Ossington of Ossington, co. Nottingham 13 Feb. 1872. d. Ossington hall, Newark, Notts. 7 March 1873. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire worthies (1882) 366–68 portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 20–21 portrait; Illust. news of the world iii 65 (1859) portrait; I.L.N. xxx 455, 456 (1857) portrait, lxii 259, 297, 355 (1873) portrait.
OSTEN, Wilhelm, Baron Osten. Lieutenant first regiment of light dragoons king’s German legion 10 Nov. 1803; lieutenant 16 lancers 17 Nov. 1808; major 25 Oct. 1827, sold out 7 March 1834; K.H. 1823; a general in Hanoverian service. d. Rufford abbey, Notts. 24 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 299 (1852).
OSTREHAN, Georgiana Augusta (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan). b. 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. d. at the Convent 5 Jany. 1884. Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 221–32 portrait.
O’SULLIVAN, Michael. b. 3 Oct. 1823; educ. Oscott and at English coll. at Rome; matric. univ. of London; a priest in Birmingham, Brewood, and Stafford; canon of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham; vicar general of Birmingham diocese to 1879; member of Birmingham school board Nov. 1870 to death; resided at Solihull from 1879. d. Solihull, Birmingham 12 Jany. 1892.
O’SULLIVAN, Mortimer (2 son of a schoolmaster at Clonmel, Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1791 or 1792; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1832; second master of Tipperary endowed school and curate of parish of Tipperary about 1820; the first master of the royal school at Dungannon; chaplain of St. Stephen’s chapel, Dublin; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 20 Dec. 1827 to 24 Aug. 1830; R. of Killyman, co. Armagh 24 Aug. 1830; gave evidence before committees of lords and commons on the state of Ireland 1825, and on Orange lodges 1835; Donellan lecturer at Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; R. of Tanderagee, near Ballymore 1853 to death; prebendary of Armagh to death; author of Captain Rock detected, or the origin and character of the recent disturbances. By A Munster farmer 1824; A guide to an Irish gentleman in his search for a religion, Dublin 1833; The case of the protestants of Ireland stated 1836; Of the apostasy predicted by St. Paul, Dublin 1842; Theory of developments in Christian doctrine 1846; The hour of the Redeemer 1853. d. Dublin 30 April 1859. bur. Chapelizod churchyard.
O’SULLIVAN, Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. Clonmel 13 Sept. 1790; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1825, D.D.; C. of St. Catherine’s, Dublin 1818, and chaplain of the Marshalsea, Dublin 1819; chaplain to the royal Hibernian military school in Phœnix park, Dublin 1827 to death; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag., Fraser’s Mag., and the Dublin Univ. review; author of The agency of divine providence manifested in the principal transactions connected with the history of Great Britain from the reformation to the revolution in 1688, Dublin 1816; The catechism of the united church of England and Ireland explained and confirmed, Dublin 1850. d. Royal Hibernian school, Dublin 6 Aug. 1851. bur. churchyard of Chapelizod, Dublin 9 Aug. Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1851 pp. 504–8; Remains of rev. S. O’Sullivan, 3 vols. (1853) memoir vol. i pp. i–xlviii.
O’SULLIVAN, William Henry (only son of Thomas Luke O’Sullivan of Rathkeale, co. Limerick). b. 1829; merchant Kilmallock, co. Limerick; under strict police surveillance, his house at Kilmallock being the rendezvous of the Fenians down to 1867, when they resorted to arms; imprisoned in Limerick gaol some months, but never brought to trial 1867; sat as a home rule M.P. for co. Limerick 1874–85; a follower of C. Parnell for some time; chairman of Kilmallock board of guardians. d. Kilmallock 27 April 1887.
OSWALD, Alexander Haldane (son of Richard Alexander Oswald, d. 1822). b. 1811; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; M.P. Ayrshire 1843–52; contested Weymouth 10 July 1852, and Ayrshire 30 Dec. 1854; inherited Aunchincruive estate near Ayr, from his uncle James Oswald, M.P. in 1853; assumed the name of Haldane. d. Aunchincruive house 6 Sept. 1868. I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1868 p. 283.
OSWELL, William Cotton (elder son of Wm. Oswell of Shrewsbury). b. Leytonstone, Essex 27 April 1818; educ. Rugby and Haileybury; served in Madras civil service 1837–47, ordered to South Africa for his health, where he spent two years hunting and exploring; discovered Lake Ngami with Dr. Livingstone 1849, and the Zambesi 1851; the Knabaõba or straight-horned rhinoceros was named Oswellii after Oswell; returned to England 1853; served as a volunteer, in the trenches and hospitals, during war in the Crimea; carried secret service money from lord Raglan to sir Lintorn Simmons at Shumla; resided at Groombridge, Kent 1860 to death; contributed four chapters on South Africa to C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting 1894. d. Hillside, Groombridge 1 May 1893. C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting (1894) memoir vol. i 28–34; Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1894 pp. 307–12; Daily Graphic 9 May 1893 p. 14 portrait.