OTWAY, Sir George Graham, 2 baronet (son of sir Robert Waller Otway, bart. 1772–1846). b. Westwood, near Southampton Sept. 1816; entered navy 15 July 1828; succeeded his father 13 May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; commander of Virago steam sloop in Mediterranean; admiral on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. d. the Rione Amadeo, Naples 22 Aug. 1881.
OTWAY, John Hastings (eld. son of rev. Cæsar Otway 1768–1842). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 25 July 1808; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1832; professor of law of personal property at Dublin twice; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; judge of Antrim county court 1858 to death; recorder of Belfast 1867 to death; author of Public opinion, a lecture 1854. d. Lisburn, co. Antrim 28 May 1884.
OTWAY, Loftus (only son of sir Loftus Wm. Otway, K.C.B., colonel 84 foot 1774–1854). b. Brighton 4 Sept. 1815; attached to the missions at Stockholm 1830, at St. Petersburgh 1833, and at Madrid 1834; paid attaché at Lisbon 1843, at Madrid 1845; sec. of legation at Madrid 1850 and chargé d’affaires 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857; minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 19 Feb. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1859; consul general at Milan 2 April 1860 to death; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. Madrid 26 Sept. 1861.
OTWAY, Sir Loftus William (4 son of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway, d. Dec. 1800). b. 28 April 1775; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 May 1796; major 18 dragoons 12 Feb. 1807 to 1811, when placed on h.p; served in Ireland during rebellion 1798; saw service in Peninsular war, commanded 3 regt. of Portuguese cavalry at Albuhera; colonel 84 foot 30 Dec. 1840 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; knight commander of Spanish order of Charles III; knighted by prince regent 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. 13 Grosvenor square, London 7 June 1854. bur. Highgate cemet. G.M. xlii 389 (1854); Cansick’s Epitaphs at St. Pancras ii 76 (1872).
OUDIN, Eugene (of French parentage). b. New York 1858; a member of the New York bar 1879; came to London 1886 and sang at private parties; appeared as the Templar in Sullivan’s Ivanhoe at the English opera house, London 31 Jany. 1891 with great success; a baritone; sang in Peter Tschaikowsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Olympic theatre on 17 Oct. 1892; translated Albert Carré’s The Basoche 1891, and P. Ferrier’s Elaine, an opera 1892; sang at concerts French songs, which he adapted to English verse; sang at Birmingham festival Oct. 1894; an expert amateur photographer; taken ill at the Richter concert at the Queen’s hall 20 Oct. 1894, carried home in an ambulance. d. 31 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 4 Nov. 1894. bur. Brompton cemetery 8 Nov. The Times 5 Nov. 1894; Illust. sp. and dr. news 10 Nov. 1894 p. 337 portrait.
OUSELEY, Sir Frederick Arthur Gore, 2 Baronet (younger son of sir Gore Ouseley, diplomatist, 1 baronet 1770–1844). b. Grosvenor square, London 12 Aug. 1825, godson of dukes of Wellington and York; educ. privately and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, Mus. Bac. 1850, Mus. Doc. 1854, incorporated Mus. Doc. at Durham 1856, Cambridge 1862, and Dublin 1888; succeeded his father 1844; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London, and C. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London 1849–51; precentor of Hereford cathedral 1855; professor of music in univ. of Oxford May 1855 to death; LL.D. Camb. 1883, LL.D. Edinb. 1884; canon residentiary of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; composed music at three years of age and opera to words by Metastasio at eight; composed two oratorios The martyrdom of St. Polycarp 1855, and Hagar 1873; bequeathed his musical library of about 5,000 vols. to the college of St. Michael, Tenbury, which he built and partially endowed, the church was consecrated and the college opened 29 Sept. 1856, when he became the first vicar and warden, he spent £64,000 on this college; edited E. Naumann’s The history of music 1882; author of A treatise on harmony, Oxford 1868, 2 ed. 1875; A treatise on counterpoint, canon, and fugue, based upon that of Cherubini, Oxford 1869, 2 ed. 1880; A treatise on musical form and general composition, Oxford, 1875; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music. d. suddenly in the Birmingham, Dudley and district bank, Hereford 6 April 1889. bur. St. Michael’s, Tenbury. F. T. Havergal’s Memorials of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1889) portrait; J. S. Bumpus’s Compositions of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1892); Church portrait journal, n.s. ii 17 (1881) portrait.
OUSELEY, Joseph Walker Jasper. b. 1799; attached to the college of Fort William, Calcutta 1821; assistant professor of Sanscrit, Mahratta and Bengali 1824; professor of Arabic and Persian 1825, secretary of the college 1833–8; superintendent of the Mysore princes 1838–44; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury, England 1844–57; an examiner in oriental languages for civil service commissioners 1862–83; colonel Bengal retired list 28 Nov. 1854. d. 10 Inverness terrace, London 29 Oct. 1889. Times 1 Nov. 1889 p. 5, 9 Nov. p. 6.
OUSELEY, Thomas John. Published and edited the Manx Punch several months; author of Poems, Douglas 1869. d. May 1874.
OUSELEY, Sir William Gore (eld. son of sir Wm. Ouseley, orientalist 1767–1842). b. London 26 July 1797; attached to British embassy at Stockholm Nov. 1817; attaché at Washington Nov. 1825; secretary of legation at Rio de Janiero June 1832; chargè d’affaires in Brazil 20 April 1838; minister to the Argentine confederation 13 Dec. 1844; went on a special mission to Monte Video Jany. 1847; secured the evacuation of Uruguay by the Argentine troops and the withdrawal of their fleet from Monte Video; sent on a special mission to Central America 30 Oct. 1857; returned to England 1860, retired on a pension of £1,000; K.C.B. 29 June 1852, D.C.L. Oxford 20 June 1855; author of Remarks on the statistics and political institutions of the United States 1832; Notes on the slave trade 1850; A description of views in South America from original drawings made in Brazil, the river Plate, the Parana, &c. 1852. d. 31 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 6 March 1866. G.M. i 588–9 (1866); I.L.N. xxxi 460 (1857) portrait.
OUTRAM, Sir Benjamin Fonseca (son of captain Wm. Outram). b. Kilham, Yorkshire 1774; educ. United Borough hospitals, London; entered naval medical service 1794, surgeon 1796; surgeon in the Superb in the action off Cadiz 12 July 1801; surgeon to the Royal Sovereign yacht several years; studied at univ. of Edinb. 1806–9, M.D. 24 June 1809; L.C.P. London 16 April 1810, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1852; a physician at Hanover sq. London 1810–50; physician to the Welbeck st. dispensary; F.R.S. 3 May 1838; F.R.G.S.; medical inspector of fleets and hospitals 1841; K.C.B. 17 Sept. 1850; author of De feber continuâ, Edinburgh 1809; Suggestions to naval surgeons, previous to, during, and after a battle. d. Brighton 16 Feb. 1856. bur. at Clifton. Munk’s College of physicians iii 90 (1878); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xiii 66–8 (1857).