OUVRY, Henry Aimé. 10.3.1813 — 12.2.1899. British Colonial Officer in India. Of a Huguenot family, son of Peter Aimé Ouvry (d. 1830) and Sarah Amelia Delamain. Served in India. Major of 9th Light Dragoons, from 1858 Colonel (still 1868). Member or R.A.S. Married 1854 Mathilda Hannah Delamain (d. 1897), one…
OUSELEY, John Ralph. London (?) 12.5.1801 — 1850. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Sir William Ouseley (1767–1842), known as Persian scholar, and Julia Frances Irving, nephew of —> Joseph W. J. Ouseley. Joined Bengal Army in 1817. Served in Chota Nagpur as Governor General’s Agent. Married Elisabeth (Emma)…
OUCHTERLONY, John. Walworth, Surrey 15.1.1813 — Ootacamund 29.4.1863. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of William O. (1766–1829) and Harriet Lee. Served in Madras Engineers, in 1841-43 in Hong Kong. Married 1844 Alice Trevor Puchterbury (ancestry) or Turton (Wikitree, with years 1826–1915), four daughters. Died of “jungle fever”. His…
OSBORNE, Łucja (Lucia, Ludka, née Lipszyc). 15.2.1904 — Landon 2.12.1987. Polish Disciple of Ramana Maharshi. Born in a large orthodox Jewish family (the most of them died in camps during WW II). She met Arthur O. in Warsaw, where he was teaching English. They were married in 1934 and 1936 moved…
O’SHAUGHNESSY, William Brooke. Limerick, Ireland 1.11.1809 — Southsea, Hampshire 10.1.1889. Sir. British (Irish) Physician in India. Son of merchant Daniel O’Sh. and Sarah Boswell (a Protestant). Studies briefly at Trinity College, Dublin, then at Edinburgh, Med.Dr. 1829. Moved to London and taught forensic chemistry. He made important research during the cholera…
ONORATO DA UDINE (Franciscus Honoratus ad Utino, lay Giangiacomo). Tomba near Udine 7.11.1757 — Rome 8.12.1836. Italian Capuchin Missionary in India. Went to India in 1792, worked many years in Pondicherry, Surat, Madras and Masulipatan. Very little is known of his life (except some contradicting mentions, claiming he worked in Tibet, Madagascar, or…
O’MALLEY, Lewis Sydney Stewart. Flitcham, Norfolk 23.10.1874 — Oxford 10.5.1941. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Bryan O’M., a minister, and Frances Keppel. Educated in Norwich and Hertford College, Oxford (B.A.). Entered I.C.S. in 1898, worked as Magistrate and Collector in Bengal, then in General and Revenue Department. Retired 1924. C.I.E.…
OLDHAM, Thomas. Dublin 4.5.1816 — Rugby, Warwickshire 17.7.1878. British (Anglo-Irish) Geologist in India. Son of Thomas Oldham and Margaret Boyd (D.N.B. Bagot). Educated privately, studies at Trinity College in Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846. From 1836 further studies of geology at Engineering School in Edinburgh. In 1838 employed in the…
OGILBY, John. Killemeare (Kirriemuir), Angus 17.11.1600 — London 4.9.1676. British (Scottish) Author, Translator and Cartographer. Of unknown parentage. Probably educated at Merchant Taylors’ Grammar School in London. An accident ended his early career as a dancer in 1619, later (1633-46) worked as tutor in Dublin where he also founded Ireland’s…
OERTEL, Friedrich Oscar Emanuel (from 1921 Frederick O. Lechmere-Oertel). Hannover 9.12.1862 — New York 22.12.1942. German-born Engineer, Architect and Archaeologist in India. Went to India in 1883 giving up his German citizenship, naturalized as British. In 1883-87 assistant engineer on railway & building construction in North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 1887-88…