OUTRAM, George (2 son of Joseph Outram 1732–1810, manager of the Clyde ironworks, near Glasgow). b. the Clyde ironworks 25 March 1805; educ. Leith high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1827; edited the Glasgow Herald May 1837 to death; member of the Edinburgh angling club; author of Legal lyrics and metrical illustrations of the Scotch forms of process 1851, 2 ed. 1874, new ed. by J. H. Stoddart 1887; privately printed a collection of legal anecdotes; assisted John Wilson in his Dies Boreales, a series of articles contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1836–46. d. Rosemore on the Holy Loch 15 Sept. 1856. bur. Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. George Outram’s Lyrics (1888), memoir pp. 1–26 portrait.
OUTRAM, Sir James, 1 Baronet (2 son of Benjamin Outram, civil engineer 1764–1805). b. Butterley hall, Derbyshire 29 Jany. 1803; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen 1818–19; ensign 4 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1819; lieut. 1 grenadier N.I. 4 Aug. 1819; lieut. 23 Bombay N.I. 1824, major 1848–53; raised and commanded a corps of Bhils 1825; conducted an expedition into disturbed districts, lying between Kabul and Kandahar 1839; political agent in Lower Sind Dec. 1839, and in Upper Sind 18 Aug. 1841 to 1842; called by sir Charles James Napier 5 Nov. 1842 the Bayard of India; defended the British residency at Haidarabad against 8,000 Baluchis Feb. 1843; presented with a sword and piece of plate at Bombay April 1843; resident at Sattara 26 May 1845, at Baroda May 1847 to 1852; lieut. col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 1854–5; resident at Baroda again 19 March 1854; political agent and commandant at Aden June 1854; resident at Lucknow Nov. 1854; Oudh was annexed Feb. 1856 after his report on that country had been made; commanded the army during the Persian war Nov. 1856, defeated the Persians at Khush-áb 8 Feb. 1857; commanded Dinapore and Cawnpore divisions of the Bengal army during the mutiny from 8 Aug. 1857; chief comr. of Oudh 5 Aug. 1857 to 4 April 1858; besieged in Lucknow Sept. to Nov. 1857; captured Lucknow 19 March 1858; military member of the governor-general’s council 16 April 1858 to July 1860; created baronet 9 Oct. 1858; voted an annuity of £1,000 by house of commons; presented with a silver shield by his friends in Bombay June 1858, which is on loan at South Kensington Museum; L.G. 16 July 1858; presented with freedom of city of London 20 Dec. 1860; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 30 July 1857; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. June 1862; author of Rough notes of the campaigns in Sinde and Afghanistan in 1838–9, 1840; The conquest of Scinde 1846; Baroda intrigues and Bombay Kutput 1853; A few brief memoranda of the public services rendered by lieut. colonel Outram 1853; Lieutenant general Sir James Outram’s Persian campaign in 1857–8, 1860. d. Pau 11 March 1863. bur. Westminster abbey 25 March, bust by Matthew Noble, R.A. over the doorway on south side of the nave. Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s James Outram, a biography, 2 vols. (1880) portrait; J. Chapman’s Baroda and Bombay, in relation to removal of lieut. col. Outram from office of resident at Gaekwar 1853; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii 109–72 (1880); E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India ii 635 (1860) portrait; Golden Hours (1869) 599–610 portrait; J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 17–20 portrait.
Note. There is an equestrian statue of him by Foley in the Maidan of Calcutta, another by Noble on the Thames embankment, London, erected Nov. 1871, Illust. Times 2 Dec. 1871 p. 345 view of his monument in Westminster abbey, uncovered 29 May 1866.
OUVRY, Frederic (3 son of Peter Aimé Ouvry of the Ordnance office). b. 6 Abingdon st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1814; partner in firm of Robinson, King, and Ouvry, solicitors 13 Tokenhouse yard 1837; partner with his brothers-in-law F. W. and W. J. Farrer 66 Lincolns Inn Fields 1855 to death; member of Incorporated law society 12 March 1838, member of council 21 July 1861 to death, vice-president 1870–1, president 1871–2; solicitor to regiment of Scots Guards 9 Nov. 1858 to death; member of Weavers’ company; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1848, member of council 1850–78; treasurer 1854–74, vice-president 1874, president 4 Jany. 1876 to 1878; is depicted by Charles Dickens in a paper in Household Words as Mr. Undery; printed The Cobler of Canterburie 1862; T. Eulenspiegel’s Howleglas 1867; G. Markham’s The famous whore 1868; T. Cranley’s Amanda 1869, and other facsimiles of rare publications; his library, including the first four folios of Shakespeare, was sold for £6,169 at Sotheby’s 30 March to 5 April 1882. d. 12 Queen Anne st. London 26 June 1881. bur. at Acton, bust by Marshall Wood at Society of Antiquaries. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series, ix 7 114–7 (1881–3).
OVANS, Charles. b. about 1793; entered Bombay army 1808; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1809; lieut. European regiment 6 July 1811, captain 17 Dec. 1821; major of right wing of the regiment 8 Feb. 1829 to 10 Nov. 1835; quarter master general Bombay 1835–8; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 1837–8, and of 4 N.I. 1838 to 1845; commander and political agent at Sattara 22 June 1837 to 26 Feb. 1845, where he was the chief agent in dethroning the Raja 1845, and was impeached before the court of directors of H.E.I.C. in London on 24 Sept. 1845, but the motion was negatived; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 1845 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel of 19 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1856, and of 14 N.I. 1856 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; author of An account of the settlements made with the Naiks and Bheels of the districts comprising the Kumir agency 1830. d. Gloucester sq. London 19 July 1858. Case of Krushnajee Sudasew Bhider, the accuser of lieut. col. Ovans, of bribery 1845; Debate at India house on case of deposed rajah of Sattara and impeachment of col. C. Ovans 1845.
OVENS, Edward (son of Hugh Ovens of St. Catherine’s, Fermanagh). b. 1817; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; chairman of Salford hundred quarter sessions 31 May 1858 to 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 8 (Manchester) 6 May 1862 to death. d. Enville house, Bowdon 19 Feb. 1869. Law Times xlvi 418 (1869).
OVERALL, William Henry (son of Wm. Henry Overall). b. St. John’s Wood, London 18 Jany. 1829; educ. City of London college; employed in the town clerk’s office at the Guildhall, London 1847–57; sub-librarian of the corporation library 1847, librarian 23 March 1865 to death; removed the collections to the new building in Basinghall st. and arranged the museum; F.S.A. 11 June 1868; member of council of the Library Association 1879, and of the London and Middlesex archæological society; presented with freedom and livery of Clockmakers’ co. 1877; author of Catalogue of Sculpture, paintings and other works of art belonging to the corporation of the City of London, 2 vols. 1867–8; Some account of the ward of Vintry and the Vintners company 1869; The dictionary of chronology or historical and statistical register 1870; Catalogue of books, pictures, etc. presented by Mrs. Letitia Hollier to, and also of books and music in the library of Gresham college 1872; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, clocks, watches, paintings and prints in the library and museum of the company of Clockmakers 1875; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters, etc. belonging to the Dutch church, Austin Friars, London 1879; edited The accounts of the churchwardens of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill from 1456 to 1608, 1871; Civitas Londinum, a survey of the cities of London and Westminster, published in facsimile with a biographical account of Ralph Agas 1874. d. Crouch End, Middlesex 28 June 1888. bur. St. Pancras cemetery, Finchley 3 July. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii 391 (1887–9).
OVEREND, William (youngest son of Hall Overend of Sheffield). b. 1809; educ. Sheffield gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, bencher 2 Nov. 1855 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1855; contested Sheffield 7 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Pontefract 29 April 1859, resigned Jany. 1860; contested East Derbyshire 23 Nov. 1868; chief comr. to assess damage by bursting of the Bradfield reservoir 11 March 1864, which resulted in the loss of 250 lives and property valued at nearly half-a-million; chief comr. to inquire into Sheffield trade outrages, commission sat at Sheffield 3 June to 8 July 1867; retired from practice about 1872. d. East Retford, Notts. 24 Dec. 1884. Law Times 3 Jany. 1885 p. 177.
OVERSTONE, Samuel Jones Loyd, 1 Baron (only child of Lewis Loyd of London, banker 1768–1858). b. 43 Lothbury, London 25 Sept. 1796; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; a banker in Manchester 1844 to 23 Dec. 1848; M.P. Hythe 1819–26; contested Manchester 15 Dec. 1832; the last survivor of those who held seats in the house of commons in the reign of George III; sheriff of Warwickshire 1838; presided over a great liberal meeting at the London tavern 15 June 1841; head of Jones Loyd and co. bankers, London 1844, afterwards merged in London and Westminster bank 1864; chairman of the Irish famine committee of 1847; member of senate of univ. of London July 1850 to 1877; a great authority on finance, the Bank act of 1844 was chiefly based on his principles; cr. baron Overstone of Overstone and of Fotheringay, Northamptonshire 5 March 1850; author of Reflections on the causes and consequences of the pressure on the money market 1837; Further reflections on the currency and the action of the Bank of England 1837; A letter on the management of the Bank of England 1840; Remarks on the management of the circulation of the Bank of England and of the country issues 1840; Thoughts on the separation of the departments of the Bank of England 1844; Tracts and publications on metallic and paper currency 1858. d. 2 Carlton gardens, London 17 Nov. 1883. bur. Lockinge, Berks. 23 Nov.; will proved under £2,100,000 Dec. 1883. Times 19 Nov. 1883 p. 8, cols. 1, 3, p. 9, col. 3; Graphic xxviii 560 (1883) portrait; W. J. Lawson’s History of banking (2 ed. 1855) 232–34; I.L.N. lxxxiii 525 (1883) portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 130–47; Manchester Guardian 20 Nov. 1883 p. 8.
OVERTON, Charles (6 son of John Overton 1763–1838, rector of St. Margaret’s and St. Crux, York). b. York 1805; assistant curate of Ch. Ch. Harrogate 1829; C. of Ronaldkirk, Yorkshire 1829–37; V. of Clapham, Yorkshire 1837–41; V. of Cottingham, near Hull 1841 to death; author of Cottage lectures, or the Pilgrim’s progress practically explained, 2 parts 1847–9; Cottage lectures, or the Lord’s Prayer practically explained 1848; The expository preacher, or St. Matthew’s gospel expounded, 2 vols. 1850; Ecclesia Anglicana 1853; The history of Cottingham 1861; The life of Joseph in twenty three lectures 1866. d. Cottingham 31 March 1889. Memoir of rev. Charles Overton (1889).