by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 5, 2023
Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen 1771-1849. He was born on 19 Feb 1771 at Campobello, Nova Scotia, the illegitimate son of Captain William Owen, who was from a Welsh family long established in Montgomeryshire, and of his housekeeper, Sarah Haslam. His father lost...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 16, 2023
Robert Dudley Oliver 1766-1850. Born on 31 October 1766 to a prominent Limerick family, he was one of at least nine children of John Oliver and of his wife, Elizabeth Ryder, and was related to Silver Oliver of Castle Oliver, the M.P. for Limerick in the Irish...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 9, 2022
Sir Robert Waller Otway 1770-1846. He was born on 26 April 1770, reportedly the second of seven sons and one daughter of a wealthy dragoon officer, Cooke Otway, of Castle Otway, County Tipperary, and of his wife, Elizabeth Waller. The Reverend Samuel Otway,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 26, 2021
Sir Charles Ogle 1775-1858. He was born on 24 May 1775 at Worthy Par, Martyr’s Worthy, near Winchester in Hampshire, the eldest son of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, and of his wife Hesther Thomas. He was the great-nephew of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Chaloner Ogle. After...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 30, 2020
Charles Otter 1766-1831. He was the third of five sons and eight children of the Reverend Edward Otter and his wife, Dorothy Wright. His father served terms as the vicar of Cuckney, Nottinghamshire, and of Scarcliffe and Upper Langwith, both parishes near Bolsover,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 30, 2019
Sir John Acworth Ommanney 1773-1855. Born on 17 October 1773 to a family settled in Devonshire, he was the eldest son of Rear-Admiral Cornthwaite Ommanney who died in 1801, and the brother of Sir Francis Molyneux Ommanney, the M.P. for Barnstaple, Vice-Admiral Henry...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 9, 2018
Edward Oliver Osborn Died 1820. He was the son of Lieutenant William Osborn, who had served with Captain Hon. Samuel Barrington aboard the Achilles 60 during the Seven Years War, and he was the brother of Admiral Samuel Osborn and of Vice-Admiral John Osborn. Osborn...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 6, 2018
Samuel Osborn 1754-1816. He was the son of Lieutenant William Osborn, who had served with Captain Hon. Samuel Barrington aboard the Achilles 60 during the Seven Years War, and was the brother of Vice-Admiral John Osborn and of Vice-Admiral Edward Oliver Osborn. Samuel...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2018
William Henry King O’Hara Died 1789. He was allegedly the illegitimate son of Field Marshall James O?Hara, the 2nd Baron Tyrawley, and if so was the brother of the illegitimate General Charles O?Hara. O?Hara was commissioned lieutenant on 16 January 1768, and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 14, 2017
Cornthwaite Ommanney 1736- 1801. The son of John Anthony Ommanney and his wife, Elizabeth Page, he was baptised at Portsea, Hampshire, on 15 August 1736.Ommanney was commissioned lieutenant on 22 August 1758 and promoted commander on 20 June 1765. He commanded the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 6, 2016
Sir John Campbell Orde 1751-1824. He was born on 22 December 1751, the third and youngest son of John Orde of Morpeth, Northumberland, by his second wife, Ann Marr. He was the brother of Thomas Orde-Powlett, the politician and first Lord Bolton. After an education at...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 11, 2016
William Albany Otway 1755-1815. The son of George Otway, he was born on 26 July 1755 and was christened in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster . His family originated from the Yorkshire-Westmoreland border. Otway entered the navy in 1765 aboard the Africa 64,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 22, 2016
Sir Chaloner Ogle 1726-1816. The elder son of Nathaniel Ogle of Kirkley Hall, Northumberland, and of his wife Elizabeth Newton, he was the nephew of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Chaloner Ogle. Ogle began his career in April 1740 as an able seaman aboard his uncle’s...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 9, 2016
Sir Richard Onslow 1st Baronet 1741-1817. Born on 23 June 1741 to a prominent family, he was a younger son of Lieutenant-General Richard Onslow, the governor of Plymouth from 1759-60, and of his second wife, Pooley Walton. He was the younger brother of the Rockingham...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 28, 2015
George Ourry 1732-1800. He was a native of the Channel Islands, the youngest of four sons of Louis Ourry who himself was the son of a Huguenot refugee, and of his wife Anne Louise Beauvais. He was the younger brother of Captain Paul Henry Ourry, the resident...
