Biographies A-Z

Ouseley, Sir Gore (1770–1844), diplomat and orientalist, was born 24 June 1770 at Limerick, second son of Capt. Ralph Ouseley, soldier, and his first wife, Elizabeth (née Holland). Educated at home with his brother, William, and his cousin,…

Outlaw (Outlagh, Outlawe, Utlagh, Utlawe), Roger (d. 1341), deputy justiciar and chancellor of Ireland and prior of Kilmainham, was from an Anglo-Irish family who held lands in Kilkenny. He first appears as prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland on 1 August 1317.…

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Overend, Letitia Lily Anne Letham (1880–1977), philanthropist and motor enthusiast, was born 15 July 1880 at 11 Herbert Road, Dublin, the elder daughter of Trevor T. L. Overend, a successful solicitor, and Bessie Anna Overend (née Butler), better known as Lily. She had one sister,…

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Overend, Thomas George (1846–1915), barrister and county court judge, was born 24 October 1846, the fifth son (one of his brothers died before the age of one) of James S. Overend (1808–53), engineer and contractor, a methodist of Tandragee, Co. Armagh, and his wife, Martha Best (…

Oviedo, Mateo (Matthew) de (c.1547–1610), Observant Franciscan priest, diplomat, and archbishop of Dublin (1600–1610), was born into a minor noble family of Asturian origin in Segovia. Education and Irish interests During the 1560s and 1570s, he…

Owens, Evelyn (1931–2010), trade unionist and women's rights advocate, was born on 22 January 1931 at 23 Vernon Gardens, Clontarf, Dublin, the fourth of six children of William Owens, a civil servant of Clontarf, originally from Co. Roscommon, and his wife Ellen (née Monaghan), from…

Owenson, Robert (1744–1812), singer and actor, was born in Tyrawley, Co. Mayo, the only son of Walter MacEoghan (or MacOwen), farmer, and Sydney Bell, orphan granddaughter of George Crofton and a relative of the Croftons of Longford House. The pair eloped after meeting at a hurling…

Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan) (c.1783–1859), novelist and literary celebrity, was born in Dublin. Her father, the Mayo-born Robert Owenson (qv) (originally Mac Eóin, 1744–1812), was an actor whose native command of Irish ensured…

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Oxburgh, Heward (d. 1691), Jacobite soldier and landowner, of Boveen, King's Co., was of unknown parentage but probably a member of a Norfolk gentry family. He, or his parents, perhaps came to Ireland as part of the plantation of King's Co. in the 1620s. He was in any case in the…

Oxx, John (1910–87), racehorse trainer, was born 16 January 1910 in Collinstown, Leixlip, Co. Kildare, son of John Oxx, stud groom, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shaw). Educated at Dunboyne national school, he worked on stud farms in the Dunboyne area before obtaining a trainer's…