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James Ripley . b. Fryeburg, Maine, U.S. of America 1836; graduated at Bowdoin college, Maine; a manager for Charles Dickens in America 1867; agent for Harper brothers, publishers at 30 Fleet st. London 1888–90; head of the firm of Osgood, Mc Ilvaine and co. publishers 45 Albemarle st. London 1890 to death; compiled Ma achusetts Artists’ centennial album 1876; Osgood’s Pocket guide to Europe 1882. d. 161A Piccadilly, London 18 May 1892. J. Forster’s Charles Dickens iii 391, 395 (1874). O’SHANASSY, Sir John (son of Denis O’Shana y, land surveyor, d. 1831). b. Henry street, Tipperary 1818; landed in Port Philip bay, Victoria 15 Nov. 1839; a draper in Melbourne 1846; a promoter of the Colonial bank 1856, chairman of the board of directors 14 years; founded the St. Patrick’s society; one of the members for Melbourne in the first legislative council of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851; leader of the opposition in the council; a member of the gold commi ion 1855, and of the crown land commi ion 1855; member for Kilmore of the first legislative a embly Sept. 1856 to 1866; premier and chief secretary 11 March to 29 April 1857, premier again 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; negotiated the first Victorian loan of eight millions; created knight of the order of St. Gregory the Great by pope Pius IX in 1866; member for Central province of the legislative council Feb. 1868 to 1874; member of the a embly for Belfast May 1877 to death; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870, K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; author of Primary education in Victoria, speeches, Melbourne 1878. d. Tara hall, near Melbourne 8 May 1883. Irish Monthly xvii 586–90 (1889); James F. Hogan’s The Irish in Australia (1887) 13, 265–8, 271–4. O’SHAUGNESSY, Arthur William Edgar . b. London 14 March 1844; a junior a istant in the British Museum library 27 June 1861, a istant in the zoological department 5 Aug. 1863 to death, prepared the part of the annual zoological record devoted to herpetology; an authority on Reptilia; author of An epic of women and other poems 1870; Lays of France 1872; Music and moonlight 1874; Songs of a worker 1881; author with his wife of Toyland 1875, a book of tales for children; m. 1873 Eleanor, dau. of West land Marston, the dramatist, she d. 8 Feb. 1879; he d. 163 Gold borne road, Kensal Green, London 30 Jany. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 3 Feb. L. C. Moulton’s Arthur O’Shaugne y, his life and his work (1894), memoir pp. 13–46 portrait ; E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets (1887) 284, 440; A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii 171–92 (1893); H. B. For man’s Our living poets (1871) 508–12; T. H. Ward’s English poets , 2 ed. iv 629–32 (1883). O’SHAUGHNESSY, Michael . b. 1797; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 16 June 1859. d. Stone henge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept. 1884. O’SHAUGHNESSY, Sir William Brooke , afterwards Sir William O’Shaughne y Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughne y of Limerick). b. Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830; entered service of the East India company 1830; a istant surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major 1861; profe or of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta; laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847, director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854; connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired 1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; a umed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A. Lugol’s E ay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases 1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842; The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharma copæia, Calcutta 1844. d. South sea 10 Jany. 1889. Laurie’s Distinguished Anglo-Indians , 1st series (1887) 281–2.