OAKELEY, SIR HERBERT, BART., brother of Henry Oakeley (qv); b. 10 Feb 1791; in school lists May and Oct 1803; left 1805; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Apr 1807, Canoneer Student 1807-26; 1st cl. Classics 1810; BA 1811; MA 1813; ordained; Domestic Chaplain to Right Rev. William Howley DD, Bishop of London 1814-26; Prebendary of Lichfield 13 Apr 1816-32; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 11 Oct 1816; Prebendary of Worcester 28 Dec 1817 – Mar 1830; Vicar of Ealing, Middlesex 22 Jul 1822-34; succ. brother as 3rd baronet 30 Jun 1829; Dean and Rector of Bocking, Essex, from 1834; Archdeacon of Colchester from Jul 1841; refused Bishopric of Gibraltar 1842; issued numerous short poems for private circulation; m. 5 Jun 1826 Atholl Keturah, dau. of Very Rev. Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley, Dean of Bocking, Essex; d. 27 Mar 1845. DNB.
OAKELEY, HENRY, second son of Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart., EICS Madras, Governor of Madras, and Helena, only dau. of Robert Beatson, Killirie, Fifeshire; b. 6 Dec 1787; in school list May 1803; left 1803; Writer, EICS Bengal 14 Jul 1802; Assistant to Magistrate and Register, Rangpur 11 Mar 1807; Assistant to Collector, Twenty-four Parganas 20 Oct 1807; Register, Provincial Court of Calcutta 29 Aug 1808; Register, Zillah of Jessore 27 Feb 1810; Assistant Judge, Zillah of Jessore 22 Mar 1811; Officiating Magistrate, Jessore 6 Sep 1811; Acting Judge and magistrate, Jessore 1813; Judge and Magistrate, Jessore, and Acting Judge and Magistrate, Hooghly 13 May 1814; Judge and Magistrate, Hooghly 9 Feb 1816; Second Judge of Provincial Court, Murshidabad 2 Mar 1826; m. 17 May 1819 Laura, dau. of Col. --- Rovier, Governor of Chandernagore; d. at Monghyr 3 May 1826.
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O’SULLIVAN, WILLIAM ROWLEY, son of John O’Sullivan, US sea captain, and Mary Rowley; b. 23 Apr 1812; adm. 23 May 1826 (Singleton's) (in Record as Sullivan, but O’Sullivan in admissions); d. young. [Lieut., US Navy : lost at sea ?]
O’SULLIVAN, JOHN LOUIS, brother of William Rowley O’Sullivan (qv); b. Gibraltar 15 Nov 1813; adm. 23 May 1826 (Singleton's) (in Record as John Lewis Sullivan, but surname given as O’Sullivan in admissions and his second Christian name was Louis); emigrated to USA 1827; Columbia Coll., New York; BA 1831; tutor and instructor, Columbia Coll. 1831-3; adm. to US bar 1835; he and his brother-in-law purchased the Metropolitan newspaper, Georgetown, Washington DC Jul 1835, and ran it until Jul 1837; they subsequently launched the Democratic Review, published in Washington DC Sep 1837 – Dec 1840; moved to New York 1840; transferred the management and printing of the Democratic Review to New York, acting as its sole editor 1841-6; member New York State Assembly 1841-2; editor, New York Morning News 1844-6; a prominent member of the radical wing of the New York Democrat party; involved in schemes for US annexation of Cuba between 1848 and 1852; US Consul, Lisbon Jun 1854 – May 1858; supporter of Confederacy during American Civil war; friend of the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne; see Robert D. Sampson, John L. O’Sullivan and his times, 2003; author, Union, Disunion and Reunion, 1862, and other books and pamphlets; m. 21 Oct 1846 Susan, dau. of Kearny Rodgers MD, New York City, USA; d. 24 Feb 1895.
O’Sullivan, Curtis Hooper, brother of Cornelius Dion O’Sullivan (qv); b. 15 Sept. 1922; adm. May 1935 (A); left July 1935; Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA, BA 1947; US Field Artillery in WW2 (Lieut. ), Silver Star for gallantry (Germany) Apr. 1945; Lieut. -Col. 3rd Bn 159th Infantry; graduate (honours) Gen. Staff Coll.; Brig. -Gen. US National Guard, CA, USA; Nat. Parks Service San Francisco, CA, USA, US Dept of the Interior, to retirement 1979; m. Roseanne Haglund; d. 30 Apr 2016.
O’REILLY, EDWARD; b. 23 Oct 1806; adm. 12 Jan 1818 (Packharness').
O’RAILEY, ---; b.; at school under Camden (Camden to Ussher 10 Jul 1618, where he states that “divers gentlemen of Ireland”, including an O’Railey, were among his scholars at Westminster : Sir H. Ellis, ed., Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, Camden Soc., 1st ser., xxiii, 125, note).
O’NEILL, GERVASE HENRY CECIL; b. 22 Nov 1862; adm. 2 May 1876 (H), exhibitioner; left May 1878.
O’KEEFE, JOHN TOTTENHAM, elder son of John O’Keefe, Eustace Street, Dublin, playwright, and Mary, elder dau. of Tottenham Heaphy, proprietor of The Theatre Royal, Dublin; b.; adm. 1789; took part of Constance in King John, TB play Dec 1789; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1790; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 6 May 1791, aged 16, matr. 1791; migr. to Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Nov 1798; BA 1801; ordained; officiated at Duke Street Chapel, Westminster; appointed to a living in Jamaica 1803; d. at Port Royal, Jamaica 1803, three weeks after his arrival.