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OTWAY, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1742/3 (Hawkins'); left 1744.

OTWAY, FRANCIS, eldest son of Lieut. -Col. Francis Otway, St. Martin’s in the Fields, and Smarden, Kent, and Anne Taylor, St. Anne, Soho; bapt. St. Anne’s, Soho 15 Oct 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) 1739/40 (Hawkins'); left 1748; adm. Inner Temple 23 Jun 1748, called to bar 4 Jul 1753, tenant chambers there from 1 May 1751; of Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent; a letter addressed to him at school by his uncle and godfather William Byrd, Westover, Virginia, is printed Virginia Magazine of History and Biography xxxviii, 28; m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Rowdon Baynham, London, and Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent, apothecary; buried St. Marylebone, London 22 Mar 1773.

OTWAY, EATON, brother of Charles Otway (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 17 Sep 1719 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Jan 1730/1; Ensign, 35th Foot 25 Apr 1736; Lieut., 10 May 1742; Capt., 28 Oct 1745; res. 22 Apr 1749; d. 19 Oct 1764.

OTWAY, CHARLES, son of Gen. Charles Otway, Col. 35th Foot, and Maria, dau. of Capt. Charles Eaton, Royal Horse Guards; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 17 Mar 1716 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1730/1; Ensign, 35th Foot 8 Jan 1731/2; d. 6 Dec 1738.

OTTLEY, THOMAS, son of Adam Ottley, Pitchford, Shropshire, and Bridget, only dau. of Sir William Gresley, Bart.; b. 17 Jan 1716; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1724/5; left 1733; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Nov 1733; High Sheriff, Shropshire 1767; m. 22 Feb 1742 (IGI) Catherine, elder dau. of Sir Robert Banks Jenkinson, Bart., MP; d. 22 Jan 1807.

Ottey, Elizabeth; daughter of Nathaniel Fairclough, Stowmarket, Suffolk, and Mary Grimwood ; bapt. Whatfield, Suffolk 23 Sep 1734 ; Dame of the Centre House on the Terrace 1771 (succeeding Mrs Porten) until about Christmas 1785 (preceding Mrs Farren) (surname incorrectly given by Russell Barker and Stenning as Ottley) ; m. 12 Jun 1753 Rev.Thomas Ottey (died 1762), Curate of Hadleigh, Suffolk, Vicar of Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk 1754-5, also described as being of Great Horkesley, Essex) ; d. at Hadleigh, Suffolk 27 Aug 1799 (will proved PCC 6 Nov 1799, widow, Hadleigh, Suffolk), described in death notice in GM as “formerly of Deans Yard, Westminster”.

OTTER, KENYON BETHELL, brother of Henry Shirecliffe Otter (qv); b. 10 Oct 1857; adm. 12 Jun 1868; QS 2 Oct 1872; left Aug 1873; clerk, London Stock Exchange; d. 3 Aug 1890.

OTTER, HENRY SHIRECLIFFE, second son of Charles Otter, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, Examiner of Court of Chancery, and Elinor Shirecliffe, dau. of Kenyon Stevens Parker QC, New Square, Lincoln’s Inn; b. 4 Feb 1856; adm. 26 Jan 1866; exhibitioner 1869; QS (Capt. ) 1870; Capt. of the School 1873; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1874, matr. 28 May 1874; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1876; played football for Oxford 1874-8, threw hammer for Oxford 1878; Ba 1878; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Nov 1876; Indian Civil Service (Madras) 1876; Assistant to Collector, Tinnevelly 1879; returned to England owing to ill-health; d. 29 Dec 1879.

OTTELEY, ---; b.; in school lists 1733, 1734.