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O’Connor, Jack (c.1890-c.1965), of Fellside, Kendal, local author of Memories of Old Kendal (1961), contributor to Westmorland Gazette, worked at K Shoes, Netherfield, Kendal, presented a pattern book to Kendal Corporation at meeting of Town Council on 6 November 1951, died c.1965/6
Oakley, Charles Ernest (1926-2008), artist and teacher, b. Urmston, Manchester, educated Manchester GS, Slade College of Art, taught Eden School, Carlisle, following an exhibition at Krane Kalman in Manchester (where LS Lowry bought a painting), taught at Belfast College of Art, later Newcastle Polytechnic [now Northumbria university], in 1984 became an artist full time; obit CN 18 April 2008
Oakley, John (1834-1890), clergyman, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, London curacies, vicar of Hoxton, dean of Carlisle and then Manchester; Gladstone qv
Oates, Jonas, a black boy, the son of Francis and Eda Oates, bap. St Nicholas Whitehaven 21 September 1776; also his brother Samuel
Odard (fl.early 12thc), vice comes, (Odard of Carlisle not Odard of N.), appears on pipe roll of 1129; W Percy Hedley CW2, 59, 40-50
Oddie, John William, artist and designer, lived Lizzick Hall, Keswick; James Dearden, ‘JW Oddie, Ruskin and Keswick Sketching Club’, CWAAS 1998
O’Dwyer, Alfred Cannon (c.1810-1883), of Mansion House, Burton-in-Kendal, buried at Burton, 13 June 1883, aged 73
Odgers, James Edwin (1843-19xx), MA, Unitarian Minister, born at Plymouth, 14 April 1843, educ Manchester New College, London (graduated 1865), assistant minister at Renshaw Street, Liverpool for 15 months before coming to Kendal as minister of Market Place Chapel for one year (1 January to 31 December 1868), minister at Bridgwater 1869-1878, Toxteth Park 1878-1882, and Altrincham 1882-1893, principal of Unitarian Home Missionary Board 1884-1891 and theological tutor 1882, Hibbert lecturer on Ecclesiastical History, Manchester college, Oxford 1894 (ONK, 429)
Ogden, Joseph (1862-1925), art teacher, b.Kirkby Lonsdale, head of Sydney Cooper school of art, Canterbury
Ogilvie, James MD (fl.1964-1973), physician, local GP and experienced mountaineer, founded the Patterdale mountain rescue team in 1964 which he ran until 1973
Ogle, Rev John (late 17thc), master of Blencowe grammar school from 1688 and curate of Hutton in the Forest, his nephew Wentworth Ogle was of Gray’s Inn from 1713, related to the Ogles of Northumberland; Hud (W)
Ogle, Thomas, illustrator, The English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls, 1864
Oglethorpe, James (1696-1785), brigadier general, fought at Clifton Moor and court martialled in 1746 for disobeying orders and allowing some of the rebels to escape, but acquitted; CW2 liv 200; CW2 lxiii 233; CW2 x 295; Edward J. Cashin, Account of the 1745: Escape of the Scots at Shap, Georgia Historical Society Quarterly, vol.76, no 1, spring 1992, 87-99
Oglethorpe, Owen (c.1503-1559), bishop of Carlisle, crowned Elizabeth I
Oldham, E Laura (1919-2003), MA, headmistress, born 31 January 1919, brought up in the country, headmistress of Elmslie School, Blackpool for 26 years from 1952, making substantial additions to school buildings and inspiring innumerable fund-raising schemes, numbers grew and academic standards rose, welcomed Margaret Thatcher to prize-giving day in 1970, retired to Kendal in 1978/9 (27 Castle Green Close), but chose to attend St Mark’s church, Natland, after trying various others in and around Kendal, persuaded by Revd Colin Stannard to become a reader (licensed by October 1980), person of strong but unostentatious Christian faith, gave quiet and sound advice, of great integrity and kindness, developed strong interest in local history of Natland and Oxenholme, staged various local history exhibitions in church, esp for 75th anniversary of church in November 1985, resulting in several short publications: The Church on Natland Green (c.1985, 2nd ed 1996), A Home in the Country: St Mark’s Natland (1993), Oxenholme: The Railway Village (1995), and Now and Then at St Mark’s School, Natland (2003), unmarried, known as Auntie Laulie to her family, latterly of Kent Court, Kendal, died 11 November 2003, aged 84, and funeral at St Mark’s church, 15 November (tributes in St Mark’s Parish News, January 2004, 6-9)
Oldman, Jonathan (17xx-18xx), steward, letters to Sir Philip Musgrave 1788, Musgrave Manors of Hartley and Kirkby Stephen 1793, and Great and Little Musgrave 1795 (CRO, WD/CAT/A2173; WDX 1572)
Oliphant, Capt Thomas, fought at the battle of Dettingen in 1743
Oliphant, Lawrence (d.1566), landowner, 3rd baron Oliphant, son of Colin the master of Oliphant who was killed at Flodden in 1513, fought against Thomas the 1st Lord Wharton (1495-1568; ODNB; qv) at the Battle of Solway Moss near Arthuret in 24 November 1542, he was captured and ransomed the following year, his keeper was Sir John Lowther and his pledges were made via Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, Lord Wharton wrote a description of the battle, Oliphant married Margaret Sandilands in 1529 and their son was Lawrence Oliphant, 4th baron
Oliver, Eric Edwin (c.1908-1992), clergyman and local councillor, vicar of Staveley 1943-1976, last chairman of South Westmorland district council to 1974, retired to 96 Park Avenue, Euxton, Chorley, died aged 84 and ashes buried at Staveley St James, 10 September 1992
Oliver, George Dale (1851-1928), architect Carlisle, b. Newcastle, son of Thomas Oliver (1824-1902), architect and his wife Elizabeth Dale (1823-1871), trained with George E. Street (1824-1881; ODNB), designed the Crown and Mitre hotel in Carlisle market place, Carlisle Grammar School (1881-2), the octagonal Temperance coffee house in North St (1881-2), Red Gables in Chatsworth Square (1885) for William Hudson Scott (qv) and an extension to St Augustine church Alston (1886), county architect c.1892-1919, marr Charlotte Annie Crook (1854-1931), lived at 12 Chiswick St in 1881 and 18 Howard Place in 1901
Olivier, Rev Alfred (1833-1897), prebend of Southwell, built The Lea, Grasmere and bought Blea Tarn, left this to his nephew Col Henry Dacres Olivier (1850-1935), whose brother Sir Sydney Haldane Olivier (1859-1943) was governor of Jamaica, a member of the Fabian Society and secretary of state for India, two other brothers were the Rev Gerard Kerr Olivier, the father of Sir Laurence the actor (qv) and Herbert Olivier a portrait painter, the Lakeland estate was given to the National Trust; Hud (W)
Olivier, Sir Laurence (1907-1989), actor, son of the Rev Gerard Kerr Olivier, nephew of Col Henry and Sir Sydney Olivier (qqv)
Ollerenshaw, Kathleen DBE PhD (nee Timpson) (1912-2014; ODNB), mathematician, educationist and politician, born Withington, the daughter of Charles Timpson (1881-1967) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Stops (also granddaughter of the founder of Timpson’s shoe repairer chain), profoundly deaf from the age of 8, educ St Leonards School, St Andrews, Somerville College, Oxford, part time lecturer at Manchester university, marr Robert Ollerenshaw (1912-1986) a surgeon and later hon col in the TA, city councillor Manchester, education committee, Lord Mayor 1975-6, High Sheriff 1978-9, president of the Institute of Mathematics, involved with the foundation of the Royal Northern College of Music and was Pro-Chancellor of Lancaster University, had a ‘bolt hole’ at Hodge Close near Coniston from 1954, Peter Maxwell Davies’ 9th Naxos quartet dedicated to her, gave her telescope to the university, died Didsbury aged 101; autobiography To Talk of Many Things, 2004 esp. 93-98; for her husband see Plarr’s Lives; BBC radio 4 Great Lives 23 August 2022
Ollivant, Alfred (1874-1927), novelist, born in Nuthurst, Sussex in 1874, first novel Bob, Son of Battle published in 1898 and set in Cumberland about a suspected sheep-killing collie Bob, with dialogue written in Cumbrian dialect, with a sequel Danny (1902), followed by twelve further novels ranging from small-scale cautionary tales to grand historical epics, published between 1907 and 1927, died in London, 19 January 1927 (portrait by John Henry Smith)
Ollivant, Capt. Thomas [d.1747], 4th dragoons, killed a man in a duel 1724, fought at Dettingen 1743; CW2 xlviii 130
Onassis, Aristotle (1906-1975), shipping magnate, visited Barrow, see Les Shore, Leonard Redshaw biography; Stavros Niarchos (qv)
O’Neil, John (1810- after 1875), weaver, b. Carlisle worked Clitheroe and Bentham; his journals of 1856-1875 published Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vol.CXXII
O’Neill, Patrick (Pat), police officer, Chief Constable of Kendal Borough Police 1922-1947, when county and borough forces were amalgamated, also Inspector of Weights and Measures, and Superintendent of Fire Brigade, tall impressive figure at 6’ 4”, of 3 Lound Road (1915), of 1 Bridge Street, then of Highfield, Kendal Green from 1938 (KG, 122)
Oram, William Boustead (d.1919), provision merchant and bacon curers, 83 Lowther St. Carlisle, lived Eden Bank, Wetheral, twenty two prize medals were awarded to the firm; Perriam 2022, 40
Orbell, William (15xx-16xx), headmaster of Carlisle Grammar School 1610-1612, designated “LM” (Ludi Magister) on Carlisle Cathedral No.2 bell in 1608, Carlisle chapter clerk?, pioneer in change-ringing movement?, paid visit to London, returning in October 1618 to be given ‘a present of sacke and sewgar’, last mentioned as dining in widow Slee’s parlour with mayor and others in 1624 – but is he same William Orbell ordained deacon on 23 December 1608 and priest in September 1610, collated to Aspatria on 8 August 1610, removed to be instituted (as ‘Guil. Orbell junr’) rector of Bowness on Solway on 11 August 1617 and died in 1629? (CW1, viii, 142-147; ECW, i, 601, 643)
Ord, Andrew James Blackett- (1922-2012), MA, judge, 2nd son of John Reginald Blackett-Ord, of Whitfield Hall, Northumberland, educ Oxford University (MA), chancellor of diocese of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, member of CWAAS from 1954 marr R M, 2 sons (Mark and Charles), of Helbeck Hall, Brough, died xx February 2012, aged 90
Orde, John Bertram of Norham (N) was of Soulby, Kirkby Stephen when his daughter Eliza Jane marr the Rev John Romney (qv) of Whitestock Hall
Orfeur family of Plumbland; CW1 iii 99
Orfeur, William (c.1618-1681), of High Close, Plumbland, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1676, owned colliery at Oughterside left to his son William by his will of 168; (CW1, xv, 408)
Ormandy, John (17xx-18xx), clergyman, curate of Greystoke 1815-1822, marr (14 February 1819, at Greystoke, by licence, by John Stephenson, vicar of Dacre) Mary Wilkinson (Thomas and Ann Wilkinson as witnesses)
Ormandy, Joseph (b.1791), farmer, born Aldingham, later farmed at Skells Lodge, Urswick; Rod White, Furness Stories Behind the Stones
Ormandy, William, of Hassel Head, sold the farm in 1800 but retained the mineral, stone and slate rights, together with the power of fishing, fowling, hawking and hunting (on) the premises; Collingwood LD Hist cited JC Cooper, Duddon Valley
Ormathwaite, baron, see Benn-Walsh, or Walsh
Ormiston, Revd James, curate, built the new church at Wythop in 1865, designed by Bruce of Whitehaven (qv), the foundation stone laid by bishop Waldegrave (qv), consecrated 31 July 1866
Ormrod, Fray (d.1903), physician, president of the BMA, involved in the rescue after the explosion at St Helen’s pit in Workington on 19 April 1888, awarded gold medal; presidential lecture by Dr Barnes in BMJ, obit. BMJ 7th November 1903, for explosion see The Times 23 April 1888, also 20, 21, 24, 26 and 30 April, for inquest 30 May and 14 June
Ormrod, Sir Roger Fray Greenwood, (1911-1992) MC, judge, b. Whitehaven, son of a solicitor, educ Shrewsbury and Queen’s College, Oxford, 2nd WW RA, lord justice of appeal 1974-82, key finding in Corbett vs Corbett (1971), ordered the first paternity test, obit Times 9 January 1992
Ornsby, George (1809-1886; ODNB), cleric, rector of Fishlake, married Ann daughter of John Wilson, of The Hill, Brigham, latterly a canon of York, published Selections from the Household Books of Lord William Howard of Naworth [1878] and other works; portrait drawing illustrated in David [A] Cross, Joseph Bouet: Durham and the Age of Reform, 58
Orrell family of Ambleside, Jane Elizabeth married Sir William Cunliffe (1819-1902) (qv) in 1842 and her sister Mary married 1844 John Brooks of Ambleside
Ortelius, cartographer; CW3 xv 138
Orton, Simon de (fl.1220s), royal official, Justice of Assize 1225, Coroner for Cumberland 1232
Osbaldeston, Richard (1791-1764; ODNB), clergyman, b Hunmanby, son of Sir Richard Osbaldeston MP, educ St John’s Cambridge, bishop of Carlisle, nominated bishop on 28 July 1747 and consecrated 4 October, alleged by his successor, Charles Lyttelton (qv), to have neglected and asset-stripped Rose Castle, but claimed to have spent £1,000 on castle and diocese, translated to London but died after two years on 15 May 1764
Osborn, Joseph (b.1823), sea captain and artist, b. Allonby, at sea aged sixteen on the Concorde out of Maryport, m. Jane Roper, ten children, moved to Liverpool and sailed many voyages to the West Indies, Cuba, South America; his ms logbooks are at the National Maritime Museum and contain many drawings of ships, coastlines and birds; solwaypastandpresentblogspot
Osmaston, Gordon Hutchinson (1898-1990), soldier and founder member of the Himalyan Club, lived Grasmere
Osmotherly family of Cumberland; CW2 xvi 169
Osmotherley, Salkeld (1703-1763), clergyman, bapt at Bromfield, 27 February 1703, yst son and 8th child of Cuthbert Osmotherley (bur 6 February 1745), of Bromfield and Mary (bur 11 November 1733), dau of Henry Salkeld, of Threapland Hall, ordained deacon by bishop of Carlisle, 5 June 1726, but priest elsewhere, vicar of Kirkby Fleetham, North Riding 1729-1763 (instituted 24 June 1729), died intestate 1763, admon granted to widow Ann, 29 February 1764 (CW2, lxxxiii, 181)
Ossalinsky (Ossolinski; nee Jackson), Mary, Countess (c.1821-1902), landowner, born, dau and only child of Edward Washington Jackson (died v.p. 1825, aged 33), of Keswick, attorney (son of Wilson Jackson (1756-1844), who was son of John Jackson, of Armboth), marr (1839) Count Vladimir Boris Ossalinsky (d.1859, aged 51), of Chestnut Hill, Keswick, a Polish aristocrat of ancient lineage, 1 son (Vladimir Boris Jackson Ossalinsky (1840-1893), who assumed surname Jackson, was of Skiddaw View, Keswick, 1 dau) and 1 dau (Nathalie, who marr (1862) William Harrison, of Penrith, solicitor), returned to Keswick from Russia after death of her husband in 1859 and carried out resolute rearguard action against Manchester Corporation Waterworks Committee’s proposal to flood Thirlmere for reservoir, Armboth estate valued by Manchester at £25,000, which she disputed and after legal action was awarded £70,000, but could not prevent construction of waterworks going ahead in 1890-91, died in 1902, aged 81
Ostle, John (1828-90), farmer, born Newtown, Silloth, lived at the Nook Border farm, his journal of his Quaker life describes the Carlisle to Silloth railway; diary ms Carlisle, CRO
Othello, black servant of John Hartley, Whitehaven, buried 1761
Otley, Jonathan (1766-1856), clockmaker, geologist, botanist, meteorologist, naturalist, and author, born at Nook House (or Scraggs), Loughrigg, as boy helped his father in swill basket making and watch repairing, moved to Keswick in 1791 as young man to be a clock repairer, became well known as watchmaker, surveyor and guide, measured levels of lake Derwentwater 1824-1852, identified three-fold stratification of rocks in central Lake District, and explained difference between bedding and cleavage of rocks, author of Remarks on the Succession of the Rocks in the District of the Lakes (1820) and A Concise Description of the English Lakes and Adjacent Mountains (1823), which became very popular and reprinted many times, acknowledged as the father of Lake District geology, recognised the three major divisions of Lakeland rocks (Skiddaw Slates, Borrowdale Volcanic rocks, and Silurian Slates), first to scientifically investigate the Floating Island of Derwentwater, friend of John Dalton (qv) and Adam Sedgwick (qv), of King’s Head Yard, Keswick, d. Keswick, buried in Crosthwaite churchyard (T F Smith, 2007), Keswick Characters vol.1; Alan Smith, The Rock Men, 2001
Otway, Sir John (1619-1693), KC, lawyer, of Ingmire Hall, Sedbergh and of Over Kellet, born at Beckside Hall, Middleton-in-Lonsdale, in 1619, eldest son of Roger Otway (died at Ingmire, 10 February 1648, aged 88) and dau of John Mayer (qv), educ Sedbergh School and St John’s college, Cambridge (matric 1636), elected fellow on the Lupton Foundation 1639, but ejected for refusing Solemn League and Covenant in March 1643, joined royalist army, close friend of John Barwick (qv), won over his two Parliamentary officer brothers-in-law (Col Clobery and Col Redman) to General Monk’s side prior to Restoration, knighted on 20 June 1673, vice-chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, chancellor of County Palatine of Durham, MP for Preston 1677 and 1679, apptd attorney to Kendal and Lancaster Corporations for surrender of their charters on 13-14 August 1684, marr 1st Mary Rigg (bur 11 June 1659), of Winchester, 2 sons (John and Charles, successively Constables of Lancaster Castle, died unm) and 1 dau (Margrett, born 5 March 1658 and bur 10 April 1659), marr 2nd Elizabeth, dau and heir of John Brathwaite, of Ambleside, 1 son (Braythwait, bapt 9 March 1668, succ to estates, but died unm) and 4 daus (Elizabeth bapt 24 June 1662, Margret bapt 11 August 1663, Catherine bapt 22 Sept 1664 (who marr William Upton, qv), and Abigall buried 3 April 1668), died at Ingmire, 15 October 1693 and buried at Sedbergh, 17 October (memorial in church) (SSR, 76; FiO, i, 155; AoH, 15); History of Parliament
Oughtred, Bernard W, (1880-1949), international rugby union player, born West Hartlepool, son of John Oughtred (1848-1938) a cashier at the York City Bank, and his wife Mary Ann Watson of Whitby, he qualified as a naval architect and worked at Hull and then Barrow-in-Furness, where he became assistant works manager, in early life he was captain of Hartlepool Rovers, then of Hull, the East Riding and Barrow, he played for England from 1901-1903, his international debut being on 9 March 1901 at the England vs Scotland match at Rectory Field, Blackheath, overall he played six matches and won two, playing at fly half or scrum half he often held the role of captain, his last appearance was the 14 Feb 1903 Ireland vs England match at Lansdowne Rd, during the 1st WW he was in the RN and saw action at the Battle of Jutland from May 31st 1916, he married Sarah Walton (1881-1959), the daughter of Robert Walton (1843-1905), a schoolmaster, had three sons and two daughters, their son Kenneth was killed in the RN in 1940 when bombed on the HMS Curacao, an escort for the RMS Queen Mary with 10,000 US troops, they lived latterly at 73 Croslands Park, Barrow-in-Furness, died and interred in Barrow; ancestry.com; Furness Stories Behind the Stones
Ousby (Ulnesby), Richard de (d.1362), (poss descended from Richard de Ulnesby in list of Lords of Ousby, who granted ten acres of his demesne land in Ousby to canons of Lanercost Priory in c.1200 x c.1230 (LC, 195; TD, 558; JD, 153)), rector of Ousby, collated to living on resignation of Robert de Welton in 1361, but died within a year, between making his will on 26 February 1362 and proved at Rose, 3 March 1362, his body to be buried in cemetery of Dominican Friars in Carlisle (to whom he also left 13s. 4d.), also left 13s. 4d. to each of his sisters Cecilia (with 20s. to each of her daughters, Margaret, Johanna and Mariota) and Enota [Agnes] (with 20s. to each of her sons John and Richard, and to each of John’s sons, John junr and William), together with residue of all his goods, also inter alia one small silver cross to Sir Richard de Denton (Test Karl, 40-42)
Owain, son of Urien (qv) and father of Duvenald/Dunmail (qv)
Owain of Strathclyde (ODNB), one of the princes who met Athelstan (qv) at Eamont Bridge in 927, father of Dunmail (qv)
Owen the Bald, (d.1018; ODNB), king of the Cumbrians, his son was Donald (Dyfnwal) (d.975) (qv)
Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918; ODNB), poet, visited Cumbria
Oxley, Robert Frederick (1909-1988), electronic engineer, born Antwerp of a family of Yorkshire merchants, educ Rotterdam and the Sorbonne, fluent in five languages, est Oxleys in Ulverston c.1946 and later moved to Priory Park, Bardsea, initially producing ceramic conductors for radio equipment (these items had previously been imported from Germany), concentrated on innovation and high quality production with design, production and testing all in house, Design Council Award 1975, exports to the USA in time resulted in the est of Oxleys Inc in 1976, world leaders in LED lighting, night vision lighting, EMI filters and high spec interconnecting components, in 1986 presented with the 100th world wide patent certificate, marr Ann in 1968, died Isle of Man 1988; www.ox;eygroup.com/about us/history; Robert Frederick Oxley, A Scientific Businessman, 1990; Northwestern Evening Mail obit 3 Aug 1988; Rod White, Furness Stories Behind the Stones