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 * ✅Gillananaemh O'Duinn
 * ✅ Feardorcha O'Farrelly
 * ✅Richard More O'Ferrall
 * ✅Offa of Essex
 * ✅ ✅Offa of Mercia (FA)
 * ✅Baroness Offaly Page missing on Wikisource.
 * ✅Lords of Offaly
 * Sir Thomas Offley Part missing from Wikisource
 * George Offor
 * Andrew Offord
 * ✅John de Offord
 * Domnhall O'Fihely
 * Maurice O'Fihely
 * Roderic O'Flaherty
 * ✅Fiacha O'Flyn
 * Oftfor
 * David Ogborne
 * Elizabeth Ogborne
 * ✅John Ogborne
 * James Ogden
 * Jonathan Robert Ogden
 * Samuel Ogden (minister)
 * Samuel Ogden (clergyman)
 * John Ogilby
 * ✅Charles Atmore Ogilvie
 * James Ogilvie
 * John Ogilvie (Jesuit)
 * John Ogilvie (minister)
 * ✅✅John Ogilvie (lexicographer)
 * William Ogilvie
 * Alexander Ogilvy
 * ✅✅Alexander Ogilvy
 * David Ogilvy
 * ✅✅George Ogilvy
 * Sir George Ogilvy
 * James Ogilvy
 * ✅James Ogilvy
 * James Ogilvy
 * James Ogilvy
 * James Ogilvy
 * John Ogilvy
 * Patrick Ogilvy
 * Walter Ogilvy
 * Nial O'Glacan
 * Sir John Oglander
 * Chaloner Ogle
 * Charles Ogle
 * Charles Chaloner Ogle
 * ✅✅George Ogle (translator)
 * ✅George Ogle
 * James Adey Ogle
 * John Ogle
 * John Ogle
 * Owen Ogle
 * Sir Robert de Ogle
 * Robert Ogle
 * James Edward Oglethorpe
 * Owen Oglethorpe
 * Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe
 * Maelmuire O'Gorman
 * O'Gorman Mahon
 * Standish O'Grady
 * Standish O'Grady
 * Francis Ogston
 * John O'Hagan
 * Thomas O'Hagan
 * Donat O'Haingli
 * Samuel O'Haingli
 * ✅✅Joseph O'Halloran
 * ✅Lawrence Hynes O'Halloran
 * Sylvester O'Halloran
 * ✅Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran
 * ✅William Littlejohn O'Halloran
 * Redmond O'Hanlon
 * ✅Donat O'Hanly
 * Sir Charles O'Hara
 * Charles O'Hara
 * James O'Hara
 * Kane O'Hara
 * Cineth O'Hartagain
 * Francis O'Hearn
 * Patrick O'Hely
 * Denis O'Hempsy
 * Matthew O'Heney
 * Cormac O'Higgin
 * Domhnall O'Higgin
 * Domhnall O'Higgin
 * Maolmuire O'Higgin
 * Mathghamlain O'Higgin
 * Tadhg Mór O'Higgin
 * Tadhg Óg O'Higgin
 * Teague O'Higgin
 * Ambrosio O'Higgins
 * Ohthere
 * ✅Dermot O'Hurley
 * Eochaidh O'Hussey
 * Maelbrigde O'Hussey
 * Eachmarcach O'Kane
 * George Colwell Oke
 * John O'Kearney
 * Eoghan O'Keefe
 * Adelaide O'Keeffe
 * John O'Keeffe
 * Charles O'Kelly
 * Dennis O'Kelly
 * Joseph O'Kelly
 * Patrick O'Kelly
 * Ralph O'Kelly
 * Francis Okely
 * John Okeover
 * Richard Okes
 * John Okey
 * Samuel Okey
 * John de Okham
 * Robert Oking
 * Olaf Godfreyson
 * Olaf Sitricson
 * Olaf
 * John Old
 * ✅Sir John Oldcastle
 * Edward Oldcorne
 * John Olde
 * Henry Oldenbourg
 * Anne Oldfield
 * Henry George Oldfield
 * John Oldfield (minister)
 * John Oldfield (British Army officer)
 * Joshua Oldfield
 * Thomas Oldfield
 * Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield
 * William Oldhall
 * Hugh Oldham
 * ✅John Oldham
 * ✅John Oldham
 * ✅John Oldham
 * Nathaniel Oldham
 * Thomas Oldham (engineer)
 * ✅Thomas Oldham
 * Giles Oldisworth
 * Michael Oldisworth
 * William Oldisworth
 * John Oldmixon
 * Valentine Oldys
 * William Oldys (royalist)
 * William Oldys (chancellor)
 * ✅William Oldys
 * Arthur O'Leary
 * Ellen O'Leary
 * Joseph O'Leary (barrister)
 * Joseph O'Leary (song-writer)
 * Barnabas Oley
 * ✅Sir William Olifard
 * Carolina Oliphant
 * Francis Wilson Oliphant
 * James Oliphant
 * ✅Laurence Oliphant
 * ✅✅Laurence Oliphant
 * ✅Laurence Oliphant
 * ✅Laurence Oliphant (Jacobite)
 * ✅Laurence Oliphant (author) Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), novelist, war correspondent and mystic; born at Capetown; received a desultory education; travelled with his parents in France, Germany, Italy, and Greece, 1846-8: barrister in Ceylon; publishedJourney to Khatmandu 1852,The Russian Shores of the Black Sea and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks 1853; secretary to Lord Elgin at Washington and in Canada, 1853-4; accompanied Lord Stratford de Redcliffe to the Crimea and represented The Times in Circassia; issued Minnesota and the Far West 1855,The Trans-Caucasian Campaign 1856,Patriots and Filibusters 1860 (describing adventures in Southern States); private secretary to Elgin in China; published Narrative of Mission to China and Japan in 1857-8-9 1859; plotted with Garibaldi in Italy, 1860; in Montenegro, 1861; when first secretary of legation in Japan visited Corea; visited Corfu and the Herzegovina, 1862, and Poland, Moldavia, and SchleswigHolrtein, 1863; contributed to "The Owl 1864; his satirical novel,Piccadilly which had appeared in 'Blackwood 1865, published, 1870: M.P., Stirling burghs, 1865-7; lived at Brocton or Salem-ou-Erie as Thomas Lake Harris's spiritual slave, 1867-70;Timescorrespondent in the Franco-German war; married Miss L'Estrange, 1872; commercially employed by Harris in America; wrote Autobiography of a Joint Stock Company 1876; publishedThe Land of Gikad 1880 (describing first journey to Palestine), andThe Laud of Khemi(Egypt), 1882; freed himself from theprophet Harris and recovered his land at Brocton, 1881; wrote 'Altiora Peto* at Haifa, 1883, where he formed a com  munity of.ii-v.-ish immigrant*. and wveral mystical work*; on the d.-ath of his wife (1886) returned temporarily to England: publiBued "EpUodes of Adventure 1887; visited America and married Rosamond Dale Owen, 1888: k House, Twickenham, having finished IMigion.
 * Margaret Oliphant Oliphant
 * Thomas Oliphant
 * William Oliphant
 * Sir William Oliphant
 * Oliver of Malmesbury
 * Oliver
 * Andrew Oliver
 * Archer James Oliver
 * Emma Sophia Oliver
 * ✅George Oliver (historian)
 * ✅✅George Oliver (freemason)
 * Isaac Oliver
 * ✅John Oliver (Dean of Christ Church)
 * John Oliver (Dean of Worcester) sub
 * John Oliver (glass-painter)
 * John Oliver (poet)
 * Martha Cranmer Oliver
 * Peter Oliver
 * Richard Oliver
 * Robert Dudley Oliver
 * Thomas Oliver (physician)
 * Thomas Oliver
 * ✅Thomas Oliver (Lieutenant Governor)
 * Tom Oliver
 * William Oliver (physician, 1659–1716)
 * William Oliver (physician, 1695–1764)
 * William Oliver (painter)
 * Thomas Olivers
 * Charles Ollier
 * Edmund Ollier
 * Sir Joseph Francis Olliffe
 * Alfred Ollivant
 * John Ollyffe
 * John Luttrell Olmius
 * Domhnall O'Lochlainn
 * Muircheartach O'Lochlainn
 * Colman Michael O'Loghlen
 * Michael O'Loghlen
 * Cuan O'Lothchain
 * Fearfeasa O'Maelchonaire
 * Connor O'Mahony
 * Daniel O'Mahony
 * John O'Mahony
 * George O'Malley
 * Grace O'Malley
 * Thadeus O'Malley
 * Francis O'Maolmhuaidh
 * Barry Edward O'Meara
 * Dermod O'Meara
 * Edmund O'Meara
 * Kathleen O'Meara
 * John Acworth Ommanney
 * Albin O'Molloy
 * Francis O'Molloy
 * James O'Moran
 * Rory O'More (Irish rebel)
 * Rory O'More ✅
 * ✅Rory O'More
 * Fearfeasa O'Mulconry
 * Thomas O'Mullen
 * Jeffrey Hamet O'Neal
 * Henry Nelson O'Neil
 * ✅Brian MacPhelim O'Neill
 * ✅ Charles Henry St. John O'Neill
 * ✅Con Bacach O'Neill
 * Daniel O'Neill
 * Eliza O'Neill
 * Felim O'Neill
 * Flaithbheartach O'Neill
 * Gordon O'Neill
 * Henry O'Neill (died 1392)
 * Henry O'Neill (died 1489)
 * Henry O'Neill (archeologist)
 * Hugh O'Neill (died 1230)
 * Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
 * Hugh O'Neill
 * Hugh O'Neill (artist)
 * John O'Neill
 * John O'Neill
 * John Bruce Richard O'Neill
 * ✅Neill O'Neill
 * Owen O'Neill
 * Owen Roe O'Neill
 * Phelim O'Neill
 * Shane O'Neill
 * Turlough Luineach O'Neill
 * ✅William Chichester O'Neill
 * Arthur Onslow
 * George Onslow
 * George Onslow
 * George Onslow
 * ✅Richard Onslow (Solicitor General)
 * ✅Sir Richard Onslow (Parliamentarian)
 * ✅Richard Onslow
 * ✅Sir Richard Onslow
 * Thomas Onslow
 * Thomas Onwhyn
 * Johannes Opicius
 * Amelia Opie
 * John Opie
 * Jeremiah O'Quinn
 * Edward Oram
 * William Oram
 * Princess of Orange
 * William Orcheyerd
 * Craven Ord
 * ✅Sir Harry St George Ord
 * John Ord
 * John Walker Ord
 * Robert Ord
 * Orde
 * ✅Thomas Orde
 * Ordericus Vitalis
 * ✅ ✅Ordgar
 * Ordgar
 * Rowland Mason Ordish
 * Alexander O'Reilly
 * Andrew O'Reilly
 * Edmund O'Reilly
 * Edmund Joseph O'Reilly
 * Edward O'Reilly
 * ✅Hugh O'Reilly
 * Hugh O'Reilly
 * John Boyle O'Reilly
 * Miles O'Reilly
 * Myles William Patrick O'Reilly
 * Philip MacHugh O'Reilly
 * William Orem
 * Earls of Orford
 * Robert Orford (Dominican)
 * ✅Robert Orford
 * Mary Ann Orger
 * Baron Oriel
 * Amelia Opie
 * John Opie
 * Jeremiah O'Quinn
 * Edward Oram
 * William Oram
 * Princess of Orange
 * William Orcheyerd
 * Craven Ord
 * Sir Harry St Ord
 * John Ord
 * John Walker Ord
 * Ord
 * ✅Orde
 * ✅Orde
 * Ordgar
 * Ordgar
 * Rowland Mason Ordish
 * Alexander O'Reilly
 * Andrew O'Reilly
 * Edmund O'Reilly
 * Edmund Joseph O'Reilly
 * Edward O'Reilly
 * Hugh O'Reilly
 * Hugh O'Reilly
 * John Boyle O'Reilly
 * Miles O'Reilly (pseudonym)
 * Myles William Patrick O'Reilly
 * Philip MacHugh O'Reilly
 * William Orem
 * Earls of Orford
 * Robert Orford
 * Robert Orford
 * Mary Ann Orger
 * Baron Oriel
 * ✅Hugh de Orivalle
 * Earls of Orkney
 * Countess of Orkney
 * Duchess of Orleans
 * Adam of Orlton
 * Orm
 * Daniel Orme
 * ✅✅Robert Orme
 * ✅William Orme (minister)
 * Edward Latham Ormerod
 * George Ormerod
 * George Wareing Ormerod
 * Oliver Ormerod
 * William Piers Ormerod
 * William de Ormesby
 * ✅Lord Ormidale
 * Ormin
 * ✅Lord Ormiston
 * Lord Ormond
 * ✅Dukes of Ormonde
 * Earl of Ormond
 * ✅Earls of Ormonde
 * Sir James Ormonde
 * William de Ormsby
 * George Ornsby
 * Robert Ornsby
 * ✅Baron Oronsay
 * Brian-na-Murtha O'Rourke
 * Brian Oge O'Rourke
 * Edmund O'Rourke
 * Tiernan O'Rourke
 * Hugh Orr (inventor)
 * James Orr
 * John Orr
 * William Orr
 * Earls of Orrery
 * ✅Countess of Orrery
 * Benjamin Brogden Orridge
 * Jacobus Colius Ortelianus
 * Abraham Ortelius
 * Arthur Orton
 * Job Orton
 * Reginald Orton
 * John Orum
 * Osbald
 * George Osbaldeston
 * Lambert Osbaldeston
 * Richard Osbaldeston
 * William Osbaldeston
 * Osberht {tick}}
 * Osbern (hagiographer)
 * ✅Osbern
 * Claudianus Osbern
 * Osbert of Stoke
 * Osborn Wyddel
 * Elias Osborn
 * George Osborn
 * John Osborn
 * Robert Durie Osborn
 * Sherard Osborn
 * Dorothy Osborne
 * ✅✅Sir Edward Osborne
 * Francis Osborne (writer)
 * Francis Osborne
 * George Alexander Osborne
 * Henry Osborne
 * Peregrine Osborne
 * Peter Osborne
 * Sir Peter Osborne
 * Ralph Bernal Osborne
 * Ruth Osborne
 * ✅✅Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne
 * ✅Thomas Osborne Sir Thomas Osborne successively first Earl of Danby, Marquis of Carmarthen, and Duke of Leeds (1631-1712), statesman; great-grandson of Sir Fxlward Osborne; succeeded to baronetcy and Yorkshire estates, 1647; introduced at court by Buckingham; high sheriff of Yorkshire, 1661; M.P., York, 1665; attacked lord-chancellor Clarendon; treasurer of the navy, 1671; made privy councillor and a Scottish peer, 1673, and soon after lord high treasurer of England and a British peer; created earl and lord-lieutenant of the West Riding, 1674; managed the House of Commons during his five yearsadministration by corruption, and enriched himself, but tried to maintain national credit and to neutralise French influence: failed to pass proposal to make profession of passive obedience necessary qualification for office, 1675; K.G., 1677; made peace with Holland and promoted marriage of Mary, the Duke of York's daughter, with William of Orange, 1677; obliged to connive at secret treaty between Charles II and Louis XIV, 1676, and to demand Charles II's pension from France, 1678: impeached, 1678, after betrayal by Ralph Montagu of his letters to Louis XIV, being also charged with concealing thePopish plot: received pardon from Charles II under great seal and promise of marquisate on resignation, 1679, but his impeachment being revived in new parliament, although the trial was not proceeded with, he was kept prisoner in the Tower of London: was accused by Gates of plotting murder of Godfrey: refused bail in 1682 and 1683, but granted it, 1684, and released from Tower: resumed seat in House of Lords. 1685; on the dismissal of Halifax (1685) joined the opposition to James II, became reconciled with the whigs, signed the invitation to William of Orange, and secured York for him, hut supported the claim of the Princess Mary (Mary II) to the crown: lord-president of the council, 1689-99, being virtually prime minister, 1690-5; created marquis, 1689, and duke, 1694; lordlieutenant of Yorkshire, 1692-9: bitterly attacked by whigs and accused of Jacobite intrigues; supported Triennial bill, 1694; impeached for receiving bribe to . iuiru-r, 1695, but proceedings not concluded; created D.O.L. of Oxford and cmum - m rof trade, 1696: discouraged attainder of Fen wick: att.-u-k.il Halifax in House of Lonls, 1702; granted pension, 17U); published defences of his conduct under Charles II, 1710; left large fortune; his papers acquired by British Museum, 1869.
 * Thomas Osborne (bookseller)
 * William Osborne
 * George Osborne Morgan
 * Osbrith
 * Osburga
 * Osgar
 * ✅Osgith
 * ✅Adam de Osgodby
 * Osgod Clapa
 * William Osgoode
 * John O'Shanassy
 * Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
 * William O'Shaughnessy
 * William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
 * Oshere
 * Oskytel
 * Oslac
 * Edward Osler
 * Osmund
 * Osmund
 * Osmund
 * Osred
 * Osred
 * Osric
 * Osric
 * Ossian
 * Viscount Ossington
 * Earls of Ossory
 * Earl of Ossory
 * Lord of Ossory
 * William Ostler
 * Ostrith
 * Donall O'Sullivan
 * John O'Sullivan
 * Mortimer O'Sullivan
 * Philip O'Sullivan
 * Samuel O'Sullivan
 * Thomas Herbert O'Sullivan
 * Oswald
 * Saint Oswald
 * Oswald
 * Oswald
 * George Oswald
 * James Oswald
 * John Oswald
 * John Oswald
 * Richard Oswald
 * William Cotton Oswell
 * John Oswen
 * ✅Lord of Oswestry
 * Oswin
 * Oswulf
 * Oswulf
 * Oswy
 * Oswyn
 * Osyth
 * Othere
 * Adam Duff O'Toole
 * Bryan O'Toole
 * Laurence O'Toole
 * John Otteby
 * William Otter
 * Nicholas Otterbourne
 * Thomas Otterbourne
 * Sir Adam Otterburne
 * Hippocrates Otthen
 * Francis Ottley
 * ✅✅William Young Ottley
 * Caesar Otway
 * ✅Robert Waller Otway
 * Thomas Otway
 * Thomas Otway
 * Nicholas Oudart
 * Walter Oudney
 * Oudoceus
 * Sir James Adolphus Dickenson Oughton
 * William Oughtred
 * Sir Fielding Ould
 * ✅✅Walley Chamberlain Oulton
 * Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley
 * Gideon Ouseley
 * Sir Gore Ouseley
 * Ralph Ouseley
 * William Ouseley
 * William Gore Ouseley
 * Benjamin Outram
 * Benjamin Fonseca Outram
 * George Outram
 * James Outram Sir James Outram, first baronet (1803–1863), lieutenant-general in Indian army; son of Benjamin Outram: educated at Aberdeen; entered Indian army, 1819; directed capture of Malegaon, 1825; subdued Dang country, 1830; put down rising "of Bhils of Barwani, 1833; performed great hunting exploits; reported on ?tatc of   Gujerat, 1835, and became political agent in the MaU kanta:. mployni ! sir John Kcaneon minion* Shuja and McNairhten, Isii; 1.-.1. vuedltious against Dost Muhammad and against Uhilzais; promoted for services at siege of Kalat, 1889: carried despatches in Afghan disguise from General WilNhire to Bombay bySmimiaiii Bundar route; when political agent in Lower Sindh ( 1839-41 )negotlated treaty with Mir 8her Muhammad, 1841: ad agent in Upper Sindh assiBtal Nott and Sir Charles James Napier In Afghanistan and Bal. ItsS; described bg RjfftvM HM 7 ittyMdd taliu.-,-.. defended n IteMg U SttmtaiacaitttdgU thousand Sikhs, 1843; O.B. and promoted for services in first Sikh war; espoused cause of amir of Sindh against Napier, 1843; head of intelligence department during campaign In southern Maratha country, 1844: resident of Baroda, 1847-51; dismissed in connection with his report (1861) on corruption (khatpat), but reinstated by Dalhoosie, 1K54; wroteMemorandum on the Invasion of India from the Westward 185H; as resident at oiidh recommended annexation, 1855: K.C.B., 1866; G.O.B. after successfully conducting war against Persia, 1867; at the outbreak of the Indian mutiny had command of two Bengal divisions between Calcutta and Cawnpore, being also chief commissioner of Oudh after Lawrence's death, but waived his military rank and acted as volunteer under Havelock during the first relief of Lucknow: commanded Lucknow garrison until the second relief under Sir Colin Campbell; conducted the evacuation and held the place in check till the third relief, defeating Ahmad Shah's troops in several engagements; co-operated with Campbell In the final capture, 1868: received a baronetcy, a pension, and the freedom of London; military member of Lord "Canning's council, 1858-60; lieutenant-general, 1858; died at Pau and received public funeral in Westminster Abbey. He published works concerning the campaign in Sindh and Afghanistan, the conquest of Sindh, and his Baroda administration.
 * William Outram
 * George Gerbier Ouvilly
 * Frederic Ouvry
 * John Overall
 * William Henry Overall
 * Sir Thomas Overbury
 * Sir Thomas Overbury
 * Marmaduke Overend
 * Baron Overstone
 * Charles Overton
 * Constantine Overton
 * John Overton (printseller)
 * John Overton (clergyman)
 * John Overton (chronologist)
 * Richard Overton
 * Robert Overton
 * William Overton
 * Owain ap Edwin
 * Owain ap Cadwgan
 * Owain Gwynedd
 * Owain Brogyntyn
 * ✅Owain Cyveiliog
 * Gutyn Owain
 * ✅Owain Myvyr
 * Owen of Wales
 * Owen Glendower
 * Tudor Owen
 * Alice Owen
 * Aneurin Owen
 * Cadwallader Owen
 * Charles Owen (minister)
 * Corbet Owen
 * David Owen
 * David Owen
 * David Owen
 * David Owen
 * Edward Owen
 * Sir Edward Campbell Rich Owen
 * Edward Pryce Owen
 * Ellis Owen
 * Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe Owen
 * George Owen (physician)
 * George Owen
 * ✅George Owen
 * ✅✅George Owen (herald)
 * Goronwy Owen
 * Griffith Owen
 * Henry Owen
 * Henry Charles Cunliffe-Owen
 * Hugh Owen
 * Hugh Owen
 * Hugh Owen
 * Hugh Owen
 * Sir Hugh Owen
 * Humphrey Owen
 * Jacob Owen
 * James Owen
 * John Owen
 * John Owen
 * John Owen
 * John Owen John Owen (1616–1683), theologian; of Queen's College, Oxford; M.A., 1635: created D.D., 1653: left the university on account of Laud's statutes; private chaplain to Sir Robert Dormer and Lord Lovelace: published tracts against Arminianism and in favour of presbyterianism, and obtained rectory of Fordham, Essex, 1643; ejected by patron, but presented by House of Lords to Ooggeshall, 1646; adopted independent views and expanded them inEshcol 1648: preached before parliament, 1649, and accompanied Cromwell to Ireland and Scotland, 1650, as chaplain: dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1651-60; vice-chancellor, 1652-8: chairman of committee for composing differences in Scottish church, 1654: carried on controversies with John Goodwin, Henry Hammond, and William Sherlock (1641 ?1707); wrote Vindicise Evangelic against John Biddle, 1655: charged Grotius with Socinianism; published treatiseOn Schism 1657, with attack on quaker theory of inspiration: ejected from Christ Church, Oxford, 1660: wrote anonymous answer to the Fiat Lux of Vincent Canes, 1662; indicted for holding religion assemblies at Oxford, 1666: removed to London and published anonymous tracts in defence of religions liberty, and, with his name, other writings, including one boo'k of theExercitations on Epistle to the Hebrews 1668; attacked occasional conformity; discussal nonconformity with the Duke of York, 1674: received audience from Charles II and money for nonconformists; allowed to preach to independent congregation in Leadenhall Street, London, 1673; wrote against Romanism and rationalism, 1674-80; defended dissenters against Stillingfleet and contended for historical position of Congregationalism, ; hisMeditations and Discourse on the Glory of Christ and other treatises, published posthumously; collective editions of his works issued, 1721 (imperfect), 1826 and 1850.
 * John Owen
 * John Owen
 * Josiah Owen
 * Lewis Owen
 * Lewis Owen
 * Lewis Owen
 * Nicholas Owen
 * Nicholas Owen
 * Richard Owen
 * Richard Owen Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), naturalist; educated at Lancaster school with Whewell; studied anatomy at Edinburgh under John Barclay (1758-1826) ; prosector to Aberuethy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1826, and lecturer on anatomy, 1829; assistantconservator of Hunterian Museum, 1827, joint-conservator, 1842, and afterwards sole conservator till 1856; attended Cuvier's lectures at Paris, 1831; made his name as anatomist with Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus 1832; F.R.S., 1834; first Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology, 1836-56; Wollaston medallist, 1838; first president of Microscopical Society, 1840; received civil list pension, 1842; elected tothe club 1845; on royal commission on public health, 1847, and Smithfleld market, 1809; while at the Hunterian museum prepared Descriptive and Illustrative Catalogue of Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy and catalogue of osteological collections; gave annual lectures, and wrote memoirs of animals dissected at Zoological Society, on marsupialia and monotremes, on bones and teeth, on cephalopoda, and parthenogenesis, 1849; chairman of jury on raw materials at exhibition of 1851, on Prepared and Preserved Alimentary Substances at Paris, 1855: devised models of extinct animals at Crystal Palace; as superintendent of natural history collections of the British Museum (1856-83) obtained their separation from the library and removal to South Kensington (1881), where he designed theIndex Museum but was overruled on the general scheme of arrangement; lectured on fossils at Jermyn Street Museum and Royal Institution, 1869-61; presided at Leeds meeting of British Association, 1858; gave Rede lecture at Cambridge, 1869; lectured to royal family, 1860 and 1864; helped Livingstone to write Missionary Travels 1857; visited Egypt with Albert Edward, prince of Wales, 1869; received the Prix Cuvier 1857; edited Posthumous Papers of John Hunter (1861); attacked Origin of Species in Edinburgh Review (April 1860), taking up an ambiguous attitude on evolution; royal medallist, 1846; Copley medallist, 1851; Baley medallist for physiology, 1869, gold medallist, Linnean Society, 1888: received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, and was foreign associate of Institute of France; K.O.B., 1884; had many foreign orders. He received Sheen Lodge as a residence from Queen Victoria in 1862. He enjoyed the friendship of many leading contemporaries, but his acerbity as a controversialist isolated him in the scientific world. His chief larger works were, Odontography 1840–5, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Invertebrates 1843,History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds 1846, On the Anatomy of Invertebrates vols. i. and ii. 1866, vol. iii. 1868, Researches on Fossil Remains of Extinct Mnmmals of Australia 1877-8, Memoirs on Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand 1879.
 * Robert Owen Robert Owen (1771–1858), socialist and philanthropist; born and died at Newtown, Montgomeryshire; read widely when a boy; obtained knowledge of fabrics while assistant at a shop in Stamford, Northamptonshire; while employed in Manchester set up a small cottonestablishment; afterwards very successful as manager of large mills;ml became known in Mm had discussion with Coleridge and lent money to Hubert Fulton; formed Cborltou Twist Company, 1794-5; houtrht for company New Laimrk Mill- from Duviil Dale and married hU daughter. 1799; in onh-r to r.in -y out his schemed bought out partners and, with William Allen (1770-184U), Bentham, and other*, form.- 1 new company, 1814; became famous for his Mi for the formation of character including infant and two other gradeti of schools (opened, 1816); his essays circulated by the British an. I American government!*; consulted by Prussian and Austrian ambassadors; received offers in person from Grand Duke Nicholas for an establishment in Russia; propounded scheme of 'villages of unity and co-operationto great meeting at City of London Tavern, 1817; made continental tour, attending Germanic diet and congress of Aix-lu-Chapelle, 1818; largely Instrumental in bringing about tho Factory Act of 1819; obtained formation of committee to carry out his scheme under presidency of Duke of Kent, 1819, but alienated sympathy by declaration against religion; during a visit to Ireland, 1823, met with much opposition; a settlement on his communistic principles at Orbiston maintained for only about two years; gave MMSjeu at Washington and took over Harmony Settlement, 1826; framed communistic constitution, 1826, and several times visited it, but being unable to enforce his principles, abandoned it, 1828; withdrew from New 'Lanark after disputes with partners, 1829; received an abortive offer from Mexican government, 1829; took part in co-operative and social congresses, lecturing, and pulili.-hiug periodicals; carried onEquitable Labour Exchange 1832-4; took up case of Dorset labourers, 1834: conductedNew Moral World 1834-41; was presented by Lord Normauby to Queen Victoria, 1840; again In America, 1844-7; publishedRevolution in Mind and Practice 1849; took up spiritualism; heldmillenial meetings in St. Martin's Hall, London, 1866; published an Autobiography 1857-8; appeared at social science congresses at Birmingham and Liverpool, introduced by Brougham. He spent most of his fortune on the promotion of his schemes, and attempted to convert many public men.
 * Robert Dale Owen
 * Roger Owen
 * Samuel Owen
 * Thankfull Owen
 * Thomas Owen (judge)
 * Thomas Owen (Jesuit)
 * Thomas Owen (translator)
 * Thomas Ellis Owen
 * William Owen
 * William Owen
 * William Owen
 * William Owen
 * William Fitzwilliam Owen