OSWIN, Charles Hannay. A member of the Marylebone literary and scientific institution, established April 1832, where he was known as Alphabet Owen; a writer on the Dispatch 1838; a writer of verses; was residing in Harley st. London in 1842; author of Elsdale hall, or the days of Oliver Cromwell, a play in 3 acts, with the pirate’s bride and other poems 1843. The Town ii 513 (1838).
Note.—Elsdale hall was produced by Miss Kelly in 1842.
OTLEY, Jonathan. b. Loughrigg, Westmoreland 11 Jany 1766; resided at Keswick; author of A concise description of the English lakes, with observations on mineralogy and geology, Keswick 1825, 6 ed. 1837, 8th ed. to which is added an excursion through Lonsdale to the caves 1849. d. Keswick 7 Dec. 1856.
OTTAWAY, Cuthbert John (only son of James Cuthbert Ottaway of Inverness terrace, Bayswater). b. Dover 20 July 1850; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., scholar 1869–74, B.A. 1874; in the Eton eleven 1867–69, in the Oxford eleven 1870–3, secretary of the Oxford univ. cricket club 1872, president 1873; played for the Gentlemen against the Players 1870; one of Fitzgerald’s eleven in America 1872; played for Middlesex 1872, making an average of 89 runs; the Oxford racquet and tennis champion 1870–2; played in the football team against Scotland 1872, and in the first match Oxford against Cambridge 3 Dec. 1873; barrister I.T. 1876. d. 34 Westbourne place, Harrow road, London 2 April 1878. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 350; Marylebone club cricket scores x 177 (1878).
OTTER, Francis (1 son of Francis Otter of Ranby hall, Louth). b. 4 Nov. 1832; educ. Rugby and Corpus Christi coll. Oxf., scholar 1850–61, fellow 1861–75, tutor, vice-president 1871; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1856; mathematical moderator 1859, 1861, and 1869; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; returned as a liberal for Louth division of Lincolnshire Dec. 1885 to 1886; contested the Sleaford division of Lincolnshire Sept. 1889; an intimate friend of George Eliot. d. 37 Gordon sq., London 29 May 1895.
OTTER, Henry Charles. b. 1807; entered R.N. 1822; commanded the Sparrow, the Avon, the Porcupine and the Shamrock surveying vessels 1844 etc.; capt. R.N. 8 Sept. 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; compiled Scotland, North West coast, Little Minch, its lights, buoys, etc. 1859; F.R.A.S. 11 Nov. 1842; published Sailing directions for the west coast of Scotland 1867; and with W. Stanton Western Hebrides, sailing directions for the sound of Harris 1859. d. Clare park, Hants. 26 March 1876. Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xxxvii 152 (1877).
OTTER, William Bruere (eld. son of Wm. Otter, bishop of Chichester 1768–1840). Educated St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1838; V. of Cowfold, Horsham 1839 to death; prebendary of Chichester cathedral 1850 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 1855 to death; author of The ornaments of ministers, Brighton 1866. d. Cowfold vicarage 25 June 1876.
OTTLEY, Henry (son of William Young Ottley, F.A.S., 1771–1836). b. 1811; author of Remarkable sieges, from the siege of Constantinople in 1453 to that of Sebastopol 1854, 1854; Fechter’s version of Othello critically analysed 1861; A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, forming a supplement to Bryan’s Dictionary of painters 1866; On the errors of diplomacy, with reference to the treaty of Washington 1872. d. Torquay 3 Feb. 1878. Times 6 Feb. 1878 p. 1.
OTTLEY, Lawrence. b. 1808; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1850 to death; canon of Ripon 1858 to death; proctor in convocation for Richmond; revised W. Barne’s A selection of psalms and hymns 1852; and printed some sermons. d. London 11 June 1861.
OTTON, George Ralph. b. 1825; entered the house of Simpkin, Marshall and co. publishers, Stationers’ hall court 1837, where he became the right hand man of the chief partner Mark Lockwood; a partner in the firm 1859 to death. d. 34 Highbury hill, London 24 Jany. 1878. The Bookseller 1 Feb. 1876 p. 84.