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O’HARA, CHARLES; eldest son of Charles O’Hara MP (I), Nymphsfield, co. Sligo, and Lady Mary Carmichael, dau. of James Carmichael, 2nd Earl of Hyndford (S); b. 26 Apr 1746; he would have been at school under Markham and he matr. at Christ Church, Oxford, a likely college for an OW, on 26 Nov 1763; BA 1767; MA 4 Dec 1771; adm. Middle Temple 19 Oct 1765; called to bar, Kings’ Inns, Dublin 1770; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1777; MP (I) Dungannon 1776-83, Co. Sligo 1783-1800, MP (UK) Co. Sligo 1801-22; Lord Commissioner of Treasury (I) Apr 1806-7; Governor, co. Sligo, from 1784; High Sheriff, co. Sligo 1785-6; m. 1780 Margaret, dau. of John Cookson MD, Leeds, Yorks; d. 19 Sep 1822.

[Seemingly incorrectly identified by Russell Barker and Stenning as natural son of James O’Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley (I), Field-Marshal in the Army; b.; at school under Nicoll (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1771); Ensign, 8th Foot 20 Apr 1751; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 23 Dec 1752; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 14 Jan 1756; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 10 Feb 1762; Lieut. -Col. commandant of a new corps of foot at Goree (and Governor of Senegambia) 25 Jul 1766 – 28 Sep 1776; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 2nd Foot Guards 3 Nov 1769; Brevet Col., 29 Aug 1777; Maj. -Gen., 19 Oct 1781; Col., 22nd Foot 18 Apr 1782 – Apr 1791, 74th Foot from 1 Apr 1791; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Oct 1793; Gen., 1 Jan 1798; ADC to Marquis of Granby when commanding British forces in Germany after battle of Minden; Quartermaster-Gen. under Lord Tyrawley in Portugal 1762; Brig. -Gen. in America and dangerously wounded at Guilford Court House 15 Mar 1781; taken prisoner at Yorktown 19 Oct 1781; Lieut. -Governor, Gibraltar 1787-90, 1792-5, Governor from 1795; known at Gibraltar as “Old Cock of the Rock”; commanded British troops before Toulon, where wounded and taken prisoner 23 Nov 1793; a friend of Horace Walpole and Henry Seymour Conway, and engaged for some years to Miss Mary Berry; in Italy for financial reasons in 1784-5, again there 1792; d. at Gibraltar 21 Feb 1802. DNB. This Charles O’Hara is not in Nicoll’s admission register and as Governor of Senegambia in 1771 was presumably out of the country at the Anniversary Dinner both in that year and in the previous year when Stewards were appointed]

O’GRADY, HON. THOMAS, brother of Standish Darby O’Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore (qv); b. 20 Feb 1810; adm. 20 Feb 1823 (G); left Dec 1825; Ensign, 15th Foot 30 Dec 1826; Lieut., half-pay, unattached 24 Nov 1829; 74th Foot 3 Dec 1829; Capt., 3 Oct 1834; Maj., 10 Jul 1846; retd. 14 Mar 1851; m. 21 Jan 1856 Maria de la Soledad Isabel Sofia, only dau. of Francis Leeson Ball, Secretary of Legation, Buenos Aires; d. 22 Jan 1882.

O’GRADY, STANDISH DARBY, 2ND VISCOUNT GUILLAMORE (I), eldest son of Standish O’Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore (I) PC (I), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (I), and Katherine, second dau. of John Thomas Waller, Castletown, co. Limerick; b. 26 Dec 1792; adm.; left 1809; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 4 Jul 1809; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 21 Mar 1811; Lieut., 6 Aug 1812; Capt., 20 Jul 1815; half-pay 25 May 1816; 18th Light Dragoons 22 Jul 1819; half-pay 10 Nov 1821; Maj., unattached, half-pay 29 Oct 1825; 24th Foot 1 Feb 1827; Lieut. -Col., unattached, half-pay 14 Apr 1829; Col. and ADC to Queen Victoria 29 Jul 1842; commanded troop of 7th Light Dragoons in skirmish with French Lancers at Genappe 17 Jun 1815, and served at battle of Waterloo the following day; MP Co. Limerick 1820-6, 1830-4; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Guillamore (I) 21 Apr 1840; m. 16 Oct 1828 Gertrude Jane, eldest dau. of Hon. Berkeley Thomas Paget MP, and niece of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv); d. 22 Jul 1848. DNB.

O’FARRELL, PHILIP CULVERTHORPE HANDLEY, brother of Horace Handley O’Farrell (qv); b. 31 Aug 1858; adm. 26 Sep 1872; left Nov 1875; stockbroker (1881 Census); d. in New Zealand 1884.

O’FARRELL, HORACE HANDLEY, eldest son of Henry Handley O’Farrell, Douro Place, Kensington, Middlesex, civil servant, and Elizabeth --- (1881 Census); b. 12 Feb 1854; adm. 23 Sep 1869; left May 1872 (with Triplett); adm. Middle Temple 23 Jan 1875; Indian Civil Service, Madras 1873; arrived in India 23 Nov 1875; Assistant to Collector and Magistrate, Tinnevelly 1876; Agent to Governor, Vizagapatam 1888; District and Sessions Judge, Trichinopoly 1891, Collector and Magistrate 1894, Officiating Judge of High Court 1899; retd. Mar 1902; m. 14 Jul 1884 Annie Catherine, sister of Robert Clifford Lloyd (qv); d. 12 Apr 1923.

O’CONNOR, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Nov 1742; left 1743.

O’Connell, John Valentine Edmund Francis, son of Roy James Edmund Francis O’Connell, editor Amalgamated Press, and Edith Bertha, d. of William Russell of Birmingham; b. 13 Feb. 1941; adm. Sept. 1954 (W); left July 1959; RMA Sandhurst, 2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards July 1961, Maj. 1968, Adj. 1st Bn 1968-71; Staff Coll. 1972-4; GS02 London District 1974-6; Company Cdr., 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards 1976; Lieut. -Col. 1982, MOD 1983, NATO Defence Coll. Rome, Italy, 1986, Col. Jan. 1989, retd. Nov. 1989; man., security industry 1989-91; CEO Thompson Snell and Passmore (solicitors) 1991-8; owner, holiday business in Devon 1999-2003; m. (1) 1972 Georgina Rose Hotham, d. of Lt-Cdr Hon John David Hotham, (2) Kitty; d. 13 Jan. 2025.

O’CARROL, SIR JOHN, BART., brother of Sir Daniel O’Carrol, Bart. (qv); b. 14 Feb 1721/2; adm. (aged 8) May 1730; left 1736; succ. brother as 3rd baronet 30 Jan 1758; m.; living at Bath 10 Jun 1777. [possibly John O’Carrol who m. at St. Michael le Belfry, York 8 May 1751 Henrietta Whitley (IGI)]

O’CARROL, SIR DANIEL, BART., eldest son of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Daniel O’Carrol, Bart., and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Jervoise MP, Herriard, Hampshire; b.; adm. (aged 13) May 1730; left 1736; succ. father as 2nd baronet 4 Nov 1750; Capt., Ligonier’s Horse May 1752; m.; d. at Dublin 30 Jan 1758.

O’CAROL, ---; b.; in school list 1733.