OXENFORD, Henry. Last survivor of the official agents in H.M.’s Customs Long Room, Custom house, London. d. Putney 26 Nov. 1883, in his 100 year.
OXENFORD, John (son of William Oxenford of H.M. customs, d. London 30 Jany. 1867, aged 84). b. Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812; educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on commercial and financial matters; taught himself German, Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks, a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta, Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2 Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct. 1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10 March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864; Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama, Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of 40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography 1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe 1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853; F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of French songs 1851. d. 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. Life of E. L. Blanchard ii 465 (1891) portrait; Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp. 270–2; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi 553 (1877) portrait; Graphic xv 236 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 229 (1877) portrait; Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 78 portrait; The theatre i 55–57 and 68 (1877); You have heard of them by Q (1854) 121–27; E. Yates’s Recollections i 307–10 (1884); Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p. 5 portrait; Illust. Times 1 Dec. 1866 p. 340 portrait; The Period 11 Feb. 1871 p. 55 portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait.
OXENHAM, Henry Nutcombe (eld. son of Wm. Oxenham 1800–63, second master of Harrow school). b. Harrow 15 Nov. 1829; educ. Harrow and Balliol col. Oxf., classical scholar 27 Nov. 1846, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; president of the Union 1852; C. of Worminghall, Bucks. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Cripplegate, London 1857; entered the Church of Rome Nov. 1857; a member of the London oratory; took the minor orders as far as Ostiarus; a professor at St. Edmund’s college, Ware; a master at the Oratory school, Birmingham; author of The sentences of Kaires and other poems, Oxford 1854, 3 ed. entitled Poems 1871; The tractarian party and the Anglican church 1858; The Catholic doctrine of the atonement 1865, 2 ed. 1869; Catholic eschatology and universalism 1876; Short studies, ethical and religious, 2 vols. 1884–5; translated Döllinger’s First age of Christianity and the church, 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1877; and his Lectures on the reunion of the churches 1872; edited and translated the second volume of bishop C. J. Von Hefele’s A history of Christian councils 1876. d. 42 Addison road, Kensington, London 23 March 1888. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. church, Chislehurst 27 March. Tablet 31 March 1888 p. 534, 7 April pp. 571–2; Saturday Review lxv 380 (1888).
OXENHAM, William (2 son of William Oxenham, prebendary of Exeter 1771–1844). b. Paul, Mount’s bay, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1800; educ. Harrow 1813–19, and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; assistant master Harrow 1826–41, lower master 1841 to death; author of English notes for Latin elegiacs 1842, 4 ed. 1862; Death the christian’s gain 1861. d. Somers villa, Reigate 13 Oct. 1863. bur. Harrow ch. yard 20 Oct. G.M. xvi 660 (1863).
OXFORD, Edward (3 child of Mr. Oxford, the best gold chaser in Birmingham, who d. 10 June 1829, his widow kept a coffee shop in the Borough road, London). b. Birmingham 19 April 1822; discharged two pistols at queen Victoria and prince Albert as they were driving up Constitution hill, London in an open phaeton 10 June 1840, tried at the Old Bailey 10 July 1840, found to be insane, sent first to Bethlehem hospital, and then to Broadmoor, Surrey; released from Broadmoor Nov. 1867, but not permitted to live in the United Kingdom. Reports of state trials iv 498–555 (1892); W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 102–50 (1850); L. Benson’s Book of remarkable trials (1871) 528–45; A. Griffith’s Newgate ii 285–9 (1884); The Reginacide (1840).
Note.—The pistol with which he shot at the queen is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland Yard, Victoria embankment, London.
OXFORD, Jacob. b. 1834; only 4 feet high; played the concertina outside National gallery, London every evening for 28 years, 1854 to death; he is the subject of a poem of 100 lines entitled In Trafalgar Square, see Songs of the world in The works of Lewis Morris (1890) pp. 16–18. d. Morpeth court, Waterloo road, London 7 Nov. 1882.
OXLEE, John (son of a farmer). b. Guisborough in Cleveland, Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tunbridge gr. sch. 1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stonegrave 1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Molesworth, Hunts. 8 July 1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60 more than cardinal Mezzofanti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin review, Valpy’s Classical Journal, the Christian remembrancer, and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. d. Molesworth rectory 30 Jany. 1854. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1882) 55–6 portrait; Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography (1839) 183, 184; Church review 22 March 1862 pp. 175–6; G.M. April 1854 p. 437, and Feb. 1855 pp. 203–4; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 105–11.
OXLEY, Richard. b. Chertsey, Surrey 1803; successor of Charles Knight in the possession and control of the Windsor and Eton Express; official printer of the Windsor race cards, employed pigeons to convey the daily Ascot scratchings for the race cards; printer of the cards for the fashionable yearly meetings at Hawthorn hill; printer to the queen and royal family at Windsor; the oldest follower of the queen’s stag hounds; printed Oxley’s Windsor guide to the castle and Eton college 1889. d. 13 Selborne road, Brighton 9 Aug. 1893.
OXTOBY, Thomas. Served with lord Henry Bentinck; second whip to Tom Day at Quorn; first whip to Ben Bontheroyd; kennel huntsman to capt. Percy Williams at Rufford many years; whipper-in to Mr. Hodgson in the Holderness country to 1853; huntsman of Fife fox hounds 1853–9. Babington’s Records of the Fife fox hounds (1883) 92 portrait.