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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons; Senior Member of Staff of the Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary; Surgeon to the National Children's Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the Drummond Mil. School, Bray, Co. Wicklow: Hon. Consulting Surgeon to the Dublin Branch of the Institute of Journalists; Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of London; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland; and was appointed by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to be a Member of the Board of Superintendence of Dublin Hospitals, and Governor of the Loch (Government) Hospital (now Chairman). He was formerly Surgeon to the Royal Longford Rifles; now Lieut.-Col. and Chief Consulting Surgeon, New Zealand Medical Corps, and is a D.L., J.P. for County Dublin; late Member of Clinical Society of London, and has suggested many improvements and original inventions in the practice of Surgery; son of the late George Owen Ormsby, C.E., late Surveyor- General, Dominion of New Zealand; b. in N.Z., 19th July, 1851; m., 1st, 1874, Anastatia (d. 20th Jan., 1911), dau. of the late John Dickinson, Dublin, and has issue one son and one dau.; m., 2nd, 1921, Geraldine, R.R.C., O.B.E., dau. of late Wm. Matthews, of Hyeres, France. Res.: 92 Merrion Square, Dublin. Imperial Colonial and Constitutional Clubs, London, S.W.; Hibernian United Service Club, Dublin.

ORMSBY-GORE, Hon. William, George Arthur (M.P. Denbigh District, 1910-18, and for Stafford (Co.) since Dec,. 1918); B.A. (Oxon.), F.R.G.S.; D.L., J.P. Co. Leitrim. Educ.; Eton; New College, Oxford; A.D.C. August, 1914; Staff Captain, May, 1915; served in Egypt, 1915-16. Intelligence Officer Arab Bureau, Oct., 1916; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Viscount Milner, and Assistant Secretary, War Cabinet, 1917-18; Assistant Political Officer in Palestine, 1918; Member of the British Delegation to the Peace Conference (Middle Eastern Section), 1919; Member of the Permanent Mandates Commission of League of Nations, 1921; acted as Hon. Secretary of the Investiture Committee appointed in connection with the investiture of the Prince of Wales in Carnarvon Castle, 1911; eldest son of 3rd Baron Harlech; b. 11th April, 1885; m. 1913, Lady Beatrice Cecil, dau. of 4th Marquess of Salisbury, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: 5 Mansfield Street, Cavendish Square, London, W.l; Derrycarne Dromod, Co. Leitrim. Clubs: Carlton, Beefsteak, London; Shropshire County.

O'RORKE, Charles Trench, J.P. Co. Galway; son of late Charles Dennis O'Rorke, J.P., of Clonbern Park, Co. Galway, and Harriette Mary, dau. or late Rear-Admiral Hon. Wm. Le Poer Trench b. 1865; m. 1903, Mary, dau. of late Surg.-Major Cavendish Johnson. Res.: Clonbern Park, Moylough, Co. Galway.

ORPEN, Goddard Henry, Hon. Litt.D. Dublin University; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S.A.I. of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Educ.: Tipperary Grammar School; Trinity College, Dublin (Classical Scholar, B.A.); called to the English Bar, 1877 (Studentship in Roman Law); one of the Founders of the Irish Texts Society; J.P. Co. Wexford; b. 8th May, 1852; fourth son of John Herbert Orpen, of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, Barrister-at-Law; m. 18th August, 1880, Adela Elizabeth, only child of Edward Moore Richards, of Monksgrange, Co. Wexford, and has issue Edward R. Richards-Orpen, and Lilian Iris Orpen. Pubns.: The Song of Dermot and the Earl, an Old French poem on the Conquest of Ireland, translated and edited (1892); The Socialism of To-day, being a translation of Emile de Lavelaye's Socialisms Contemporain, with an account by the translator of Socialism in England; Ireland under the Normans, a History in four volumes (Clarendon Press, Oxon, 1911-1920); numerous papers on Irish Historical and Archaeological Subjects in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, and the English Historical Review. Recns.: gardening. Res.: Monksgrange, Co. Wexford.

ORPEN, R. Caulfeild, B.A. (T.C.D.), M.R.I.A., R.H.A.; Architect; the Senior Member of the firm of Orpen and Dickinson, Architects, 13 South Frederick Street, Dublin. Educ.: the College of St. Columba, near Dublin; Trinity College, Dublin. Served his apprenticeship as an architect with the late Sir Thomas Drew, P.R.H.A., and acted as his principal assistant for many years before entering on private practice in Dublin; is Cathedral Architect to both Christ Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, in succession to the late Sir Thomas Drew; practice lies chiefly among the resident gentry throughout the country. Recn.: golf; son of late Arthur Henry Orpen, M.A., of Oriel, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin; b. 1863; m. 1900, Violet, dau. of late Col. Robert Caulfield, of Camolin House, Camolin, Co. Wexford. Res. Coologe, Carrickmines, Co. Dublin. Clubs; University; United Arts, Dublin.

ORPEN, Major Sir William, K.B.E. (1918), A.R.A., R.H.A.; Artist; son of A. H. Orpen, M.A., of Oriel, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin; b. 1878; m. 1891, Grace Knewstub. Res.: 8 South Bolton Gardens, London, S.W.

ORR, Very Rev. John, M.A., B.D. (T.C.D.), Dean and Rector of Tuam since 1917; m. 1901, Elizabeth Anne McClintock, Educ.: Trinity College, Dublin: ordained. 1900; Curate of St. John's, Dublin, 1900-1902; Aghade, 1902-6; Dundalk, 1906-10;