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O’Hara, Charles, 1746-1822
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1746-1822
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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]
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.