O'Brien, John Richard, son of Richard Alfred O'Brien CBE MD, bacteriologist, of Beckenham, Kent, and Nora McKay, violinist, d. of Benjamin Thomas McKay, engineer, of Maryborough, Queensland, Australia; b. 6 Nov. 1915; adm. Apr. 1929 (H), KS Sept. 1930; left July 1934; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1934, BA 1938, MA 1947; St Barth. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP BM 1940; MD 1950, FRCPath 1964, MRCP 1970, FRCP 1975; practised at Saltash, Cornwall, and Portsmouth; pathologist Plymouth 1947-53; consult. haematologist Portsmouth Gen. Hosp. 1953- 74; Reader in Haematology Univ. of Southampton 1974-; m. 1st 22 June 1939 Sybil Margaret, d. of Alfred Simeon Boyes of Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2nd 11 July 1958 Marie Vollam, d. of Joseph Vollam Morton of Carshalton, Surrey; d. 27 Oct. 2002.
O'Brien, Charles Michael, brother of John Richard O'Brien (qv); b. 17 Jan. 1919; adm. Sept. 1931 (KS); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1937, played Fives against Cambridge 1938, BA MA 1946; RA 1940-5 (Capt.), despatches (Burma) Apr. 1945, wounded; an actuary, FIA 1949, hon. sec. Inst. of Actuaries 1961-3, Pres. 1976-8; manager and actuary Roy. Nat. Pension Fund for Nurses 1955-84; dir. M & G Assurance Group plc 1984-; a Governor of the school 1970-; chairman Westminster School Society 1975-88; m. 4 Nov. 1950 Joy, d. of Rupert Henry Prebble of Beckenham, Kent; d. 26 Apr 2010.
OAKELEY, JOHN, second son of William Oakeley (qv), and his second wife; bapt. 4 Apr 1683; adm.; KS 1698; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Mar 1699/1700; BA 1703/4; MA 1707; Perne Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge 13 May 1709; adm. Middle Temple 4 Jun 1708, called to bar 27 May 1715; d. 18 Feb 1717/8.
O’BRIEN, WILLIAM, third son of Henry O’Brien, Stonehall, co. Clare, and Blatherwycke, Northants, and Susannah, dau. of William Stafford, Blatherwycke, Northants; b. Dublin; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1729/30; Min. Can. 1734; KS 1736; left 1740; Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. min. pens. 15 Jun 1742; ordained deacon (Lincoln, lit. dim. from Peterborough) 25 Sep 1743; d. unm. [will proved PC Dublin 1752]
O’BRIEN, JAMES THOMAS, second son of Right Rev. James Thomas O’Brien DD, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, and Ellen, second dau. of Right Hon. Edward Pennefather PC (I), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland; b. 19 Aug 1841; adm. Jan 1855 (G); QS 1856; left 1859; Ensign, 43rd Foot 10 Jul 1863; Lieut., 29 Jul 1865; Capt., 18 Oct 1873; Maj., 19 Aug 1881; Paymaster, 21 Dec 1881; retd. 19 Sep 1894; served in New Zealand War 1864-5; d. 17 Oct 1894.
O’BRIEN, SIR GEORGE THOMAS MICHAEL, brother of James Thomas O’Brien (qv); b. 5 Nov 1844; at Marlborough Coll. Feb 1856 – Easter 1858; adm. 3 Jun 1858 (G); QS 1859; rowed v. Eton 1 Aug 1862; gave evidence before Public Schools Commission 3 Feb 1863 (Parliamentary Papers, 1864, xxi, 495-504); elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1863 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 3 Jun 1863, matr. 1864; Ceylon Civil Service 1867; Police Magistrate, Harrispattu Jan 1869; acting Second Assistant Colonial Secretary Feb 1870, Principal Assistant Sep 1876; Treasurer, Ceylon Aug 1886-90, Controller of the Revenue 1890-1; Colonial Secretary, Cyprus 1891-2, Hong Kong 1892-5; Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, and Consul-General, Western Pacific Islands, 1897-1902; CMG 24 May 1889; KCMG 26 May 1894; benefactor; d. 12 Apr 1906.
O’BRIEN, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, brother of James Thomas O’Brien (qv); b. 13 Jul 1850; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (G); QS 1865; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1869, matr. 19 May 1869; BA 1873; MA 1878; ordained deacon 1877, priest 1879 (both Gloucester and Bristol); Curate, Iron Acton, Gloucs., 1877-84; Rector of Walton d’Eiville, Warwicks., 1884-98; Rector of Charwelton, Northants 10 Nov 1898 – Oct 1920; m. 17 Jun 1884 Edith Christina, youngest dau. of Edward Burges, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucs., solicitor; d. 23 Jan 1927.
NYCHOLAS, ---; b.; adm.; KS ; left 1553 (Chapter Muniments).
NUTTYNGE, THOMAS; b.; GS 1540 (British Library, Add. MSS 40061); KS 1543; left 1543 (Chapter Muniments).
NOWELL, LAURENCE, son of Alexander Nowell, Read Hall, Whalley, Lancs., and Grace, dau. of Rafe Catherall, Mitton, Lancs.; a kinsman of Alexander Nowell, Head Master; b. c. 1531 (aged 19 at 12 Apr 1550); adm.; KS; left 1549 (Chapter Muniments); Christ Church, Oxford, residing 1550-3, Student in 1552-3 (name in college buttery books to 24 Dec 1554); BA 1552; studying and travelling in France and Flanders 1553-4; tutor to “Mr. Harringeton’s sons” (perhaps sons of Sir James Harington, Exton, Rutland) in France and at Padua, Italy, before Dec 1558; probably the individual of this name who was MP Knaresborough Jan – May 1559; joined household of William Cecil c. 1562; a pioneer cartographer and one of the earliest scholars to take a serious interest in manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period; left England 25 Mar 1567; subsequent travels on the European continent took him to Paris, Venice, Padua, Vienna, Basel, Leipzig (by Aug 1569) and Freiburg im Breisgau (Oct 1569); not subsequently heard of; his chattels in England had been left by him in the possession of his close friend and fellow antiquary William Lambarde, who was asked to hand them over to Nowell’s family in a complaint filed in the Court of Requests in 1571; his Vocabularium Saxonicum, surviving in manuscript, was first published in 1952; William Camden describes him as “vir rara doctrina insignis, & qui Saxonicam maiorum nostrorum linguam … primus nostra aetate resuscitavit”; for his career and scholarly achievement see Carl T. Berkhout, “Laurence Nowell (1530 – ca. 1570)”, in Helen Damico (and others) (ed), Medieval scholarship, Biographical, Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, New York, 1998.