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Admitted 14 November, 1739.

Son and heir of the Right Hon. (q.v.) one of the Masters of the Bench of the Middle Temple. He was educated at Westminster and Cambridge, where he proceeded M.A. in 1766. In 1754 he entered Parliament for Rye, and sat subsequently for Surrey till he went to the House of Lords as Baron Cranley in 1776, taking an active part in all the proceedings of the House. In 1769 he prosecuted Home Tooke for libel, and after a long and exciting trial obtained damages for £400. In 1777 he was made Comptroller of the Household and in 1779 Treasurer. He was a friend of the Prince of Wales, and was present in the royal carriage when it was mobbed in 1795. He was made Viscount Cranley and Earl of Onslow, 19 June, 1801. He died at Clandon Park, Surrey, 17 May, 1814. Walpole and "Junius" speak of him in uncomplimentary terms.

Admitted 15 November, 1848.

Only son of William O'Reilly of the Middle Temple and Thomastown Castle, Co. Louth. He graduated B.A. at London University in 1845. He became a captain in the Louth Militia, and in 1860 entered the service of the Pope and was appointed to the command of the Irish Brigade in the Piedmontese campaign. On his return he was returned to Parliament for the county of Longford and took an active part in the debates of the House on Irish subjects. He vacated his seat in 1879 and died in Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. He wrote Memorials of those who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland in the 18th Centuries (1868), afterwards reprinted in Brennan's Irish Martyrs (1878).

ORMONDE, DUKES OF. See BUTLER, JAMES (1610—1688) and BUTLER, JAMES (1665—1745).

Admitted 3 May, 1850.

Only son of George Ormsby of Gortner Abbey, Mayo, High Sheriff of the county, where he was born in 1829. He was never called to the Bar, but took early to literary pursuits, contributing papers to various periodicals. He was a member of the Alpine Club and wrote much on Alpine climbing; but he is chiefly memorable for his excursions into Spanish literature, on which he has left us a translation of the poem of The Cid (1879), and of Don Quixote (1885). He died at Ramsgate 30 Oct. 1895.

Admitted 2 May, 1574.

Second son of Thomas Overbury of Aston-sub-Edge, co. Gloucester. He was admitted from New Inn. He was Autumn Reader at the Inn in 1600, and Treasurer in 1610, being then a judge in Wales. He was knighted in 1621, and died in May, 1643. He was the father of ((q.v.), the poet, done to death in the Tower, 15 Sept. 1613.