ODGER

George , (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). b. Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London; member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder of the International a ociation; a member of the National reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for Bristol July 1870; contested South wark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874; president of general council of international a ociation of working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers; Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger v. the publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary Review 1870–71. d. 18 High st. Blooms bury, London 4 March 1877. bur. Brompton cemetery 10 March. The life of George Odger (1877); London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait ; W. E. Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 350–2; Graphic xv 270 (1877) portrait ; I.L.N. lxx 257 (1877) portrait ; Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 633–4; Littell’s Living age cxxxiii 2 (1877), a poem . O’DOHERTY, William James . b. Dublin 1835; worked in the studio of Joseph R. Kirk, R.H.A., sculptor 1852–4; came to London 1854; exhibited under name of W. J. Dogherty at the R.A. 1857 a model in plaster of Gon do line, afterwards executed in marble for R. C. L. Bevan, the banker; sent to the R.A. the model of marble statue of Erin 1860, engraved by T. W. Knight for the Art Journal 1861; called himself Doherty 1860–1, but took name of O’Doherty 1862; exhibited 6 sculptures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1857–64; went to Rome about 1865. d. the hospital of La Charité in Berlin Feb. 1868. Art Journal (1861) 252, (1868) 73. O’DONEL, Sir George Clendining , 5 Baronet (elder son of sir Richard Annesley O’Donel, 4 bart. 1808–78). b. Newport house, co. Mayo 15 June 1832; ensign 62 foot 22 Dec. 1848, lieut. 23 May 1851, sold out 1852; knighted by the lord lieutenant at Dublin castle 21 Feb. 1865, in compliance with the clause in the patent of baronetcy 1780; succeeded as 5 baronet 9 Nov. 1878. d. Norwood, Surrey 22 Jany. 1889. O’DONNELL, Sir Charles Routledge (son of lieut. col. H. A. O’Donnell, C.B. of Limerick). b. 1794; ensign 2 foot 9 Sept. 1813; lieut. 15 hu ars 7 Sept. 1815, major 14 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; colonel on the staff in Ireland 1843–50; col. 18 hu ars 10 Sept. 1864 to death; general 2 April 1865; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem; M.R.I.A.; resided at Trugh, near Limerick. d. Donyland lodge, near Col chester 18 Nov. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 555 (1870). O’DONNELL, John Francis (son of a shopkeeper). b. Limerick 1837; a reporter on the Manchester News 1854–6; wrote verse and prose in The Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland party 1854 to death; sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, a Clonmel paper 1856–60; on the staff of the Universal News, a weekly R.C. paper in London 1860–2; on the staff of The Nation in Dublin 1862–4, and editor of Duffy’s Hibernian Mag. 1862–4; edited the Universal News 1864–5, and sub-edited The Tablet 1865–8; contributed numerous poems advocating republican principles to the Dublin national journals under pseudonyms of Caviare and Monkton West; London correspondent of the Irish People, the organ of the Fenian movement 1864–5; sent poems to All the year round 1861–2; employed in the London office of the agent-general of New Zealand Sept. 1873 to death; author of The emerald wreath, Dublin 1865; Memoirs of the Irish Francis cans 1871. d. London 7 May 1874. bur. Kensal Green cemet. J. F. O’Donnell’s Poems (1891) memoir pp. vii–xxi ; M. McDonogh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 94–8 two portraits . O’DONNELL, Laurence , D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. d. Taylor’s hill, Galway 23 June 1855. bur. 25 June. The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855 p. 2, 27 June p. 2. O’DONNELL, Matthew (eld. son of Richard O’Donnell of Kilkenny). b. 1813; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; chairman of quarter se ions for co. West meath 1870; author of A treatise on the law of actions in the civil bill court 1844; A commentary upon the jurisdiction of the court of the a istant barrister 1852; and with Francis Brady of An analytical digest of the cases in courts of equity in Ireland and the house of lords 1840. d. 36 Mount joy square, Dublin 20 Jany. 1876. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin. Law Times lx 279 (1876); Irish Law Times x 61 (1876). O’DONNELL, Patrick . b. Meeracladdy, near Derrybeg in Donegal 1835; in America 1859–79; served in Federal army during civil war; kept a public house on the Canadian frontier; sent by the Fenians to the Cape on board the Kinfauns Castle to make away with James Carey, the Fenian crown witne in the Phœnix park murders case, shot him on board the steamer Melrose between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth 29 July 1883, brought to England, tried at the Old Bailey 30 Nov., 1 Dec. 1883, hanged at New gate 17 Dec. 1883, monument in Roman catholic cemetery Dublin. I.L.N. lxxxiii 300, 302, 545 (1883) two portraits . O’DONOGHUE, Daniel , known as The O’Donoghue (only child of Charles James O’Donoghue O’Donoghue of the Glens, co. Kerry, d. 1833). b. 1833; educ. Stony hurst; major of Kelly militia; M.P. Tipperary 1857–65; M.P. Tralee 1865–85; author of A letter to cardinal Manning on his expre ion of confidence in Mr. Parnell 1886. d. Ballsmahon court, Athlone 7 Oct. 1889. Illust. Times 16 Feb. 1867 p. 97, view of the O’Donoghue addre ing the reform meeting in the Agricultural hall, London . O’DONOGHUE, John . b. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1831, B.A. 1833; called to Irish bar 1837; contributed to the Freeman’s Journal 1838, editor of the Journal 1871; wrote many literary articles in Dublin univ. mag.; author of A book about the Irish bar in 1840; The summary jurisdiction of magistrates at the petty se ions courts in Ireland 1835; Historical memoirs of the O’Briens 1860. d. 9 Henrietta st. London 23 March 1893. O’DONOGHUE, Patrick . b. Ireland; sentenced to death for high treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. d. New York Feb. 1854. O’DONOVAN, Edmund (son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 13 Sept. 1844; studied medicine at Trin. coll. Dublin, clerk to the registrar and a istant librarian; contributed to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers from 1866; served in the légion etrangère of the French army Sept. 1870, took part in the battles round Orleans, was wounded and made prisoner; described in the Times and the Hour the Car list rising in Spain 1873; correspondent of the Daily News in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1876, and in Asia Minor 1877–8; went to Merv 1879, detained there several months; author of The Merv oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian, 2 vols. 1882; went to the Soudan for the Daily News 1883, attached himself to army of Hicks Pasha which marched on Obeid, the army fell into an ambush and O’Donovan was killed 3–5 Nov. 1883, probate of his will was not granted till 1891; bra tablet designed by Herbert Johnson in memory of O’Donovan and six other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections (1892) 1–25; Graphic xxiv 609 (1881) portrait , xxviii 529 (1883) portrait ; I.L.N. lxxxii 96 (1883) portrait , lxxxiii 532 (1883) portrait , lxxxv 576 (1884) portrait . O’DONOVAN, John (4 son of Edmond O’Donovan, farmer, d. 29 July 1817). b. at farm of Att a tee more, at foot of Tory hill, Kilkenny 9 July 1809; worked in the Irish record office 1826, and in the historical department of ordnance survey of Ireland 1829; wrote many articles in the Dublin Penny Journal 1832–3, and in the Irish Penny Journal 1840–1; student at Gray’s Inn 15 April 1844, called to Irish bar 1847; employed by the commi ion for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland 1852 to death; LL.D. Dublin 1850; granted civil list pension of £50, 5 June 1856; author of A grammar of the Irish language, for the use of the senior cla es in the college of St. Columba 1845; Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, 7 vols. 1851. d. 36 Upper Bucking ham st. Dublin 9 Dec. 1861. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin, his widow Mary Anne O’Donovan granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1863. J. T. Gilbert’s Memoir of John O’Donovan ; J. O’Donovan’s Annala Rioghachta vi 2160–1 (1851); Dublin univ. mag. lix 85–8 (1862). O’DOWD, James Klyne . b. 1802; called to Irish bar Michael mas term 1832; solicitor for merchant shipping; a istant solicitor of customs; published The law relating to the sale of estates in Ireland 1849; Customs’ administrators and customs’ reformers, the digest of the Charlotte row committee 1851, 2 ed. 1853; The new practice of the court of chancery 1852; The merchant shipping amendment act 1863; The law and facts of the case of the Alabama 1873. d. 24 Nov. 1879. Law Times lxviii 140 (1879). Note. —It was upon his legal advice the government declined to take steps to prevent the construction of the Alabama 1862. O’DWYER, Andrew Carew (son of Joseph O’Dwyer of Cork and Water ford, merchant). b. 1800; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; M.P. Drogheda 15 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834, re-chosen 12 Jany. 1835 but unseated on petition 24 April 1835; secondary of Irish exchequer; connected with periodical pre during agitation for Catholic relief act; author of Danger of conceding ecclesiastical securities, Concordat in the Netherlands 1829; Belgium in 1828, Ireland in 1851, 1851; The catholic question of 1851, considered 1851. d. 15 Nov. 1877. Law Times lxiv 91 (1877). O’FARRELL, Michael Joseph . b. Limerick 2 Dec. 1832; ordained R.C. priest 18 Aug. 1855; profe or of dogmatic theology in the college of the Sulpitian order in Paris; profe or in the Sulpitian seminary at Montreal; pastor of St. Patrick’s church, New York, then of St. Peter’s, New York 1869–72; pastor at Rondout 1872, then at St. Peter’s again 1872–81; bishop of Trenton 1881 to death, consecrated in New York cathedral by cardinal McClosky. d. Trenton 1 or 2 April 1894. O’FERRALL, Richard More (eld. son of Ambrose O’Ferrall of Balyna, co. Kildare 1752–1835). b. Balyna, Kildare 1797; M.P. co. Kildare 1830–47 and 1859–65; M.P. co. Long ford 21 April 1851 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1835 to 28 Aug. 1839; secretary to the admiralty 4 Oct. 1839 to 9 June 1841; secretary to the treasury 9 June 1841; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1847 to 1851; P.C. 22 Nov. 1847. d. Kings town, near Dublin 27 Oct. 1880. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of right rev. Dr. Doyle i 394, ii 110, 558 (1880).