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JAMES EDWARD (1696–1785), ARMY OFFICER AND THE FOUNDER OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA; SET UP AMBITIOUS SCHEME TO SET UP A COLONY IN GEORGIA (1730–32); DESIRE TO OUTLAW SLAVERY IN THE PROVINCE OVERHAULED BY PARLIAMENT (1735); SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED GEORGIA FROM SPANISH ASSAULT (1742); ACCORDED THE RANK OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HIS SUCCESS (1743); RETIRED IN ENGLAND (1758); CIRCLE OF FRIENDS IN RETIREMENT INCLUDED J.B., S.J. AND HANNAH MORE: 74, 355–7, 376, 383, 406, 449 AND N. A, 521, 544, 547, 674, 676, 825, 858–9

OGLETHORPE, SIR THEOPHILUS (1650–1702), GENERAL OGLETHORPE’S FATHER, AND BRIGADIER-GENERAL OF JAMES IIS ARMY: 859

OLDFIELD, DR (PERHAPS DR JOSHUA OLDFIELD, 1656–1729, PRESBYTERIAN DIVINE): 547

OLDHAM, JOHN (1653–83), POET; AUTHOR OF SATYRS UPON THE JESUITS (1680); ADAPTED OVID IN SOME NEW PIECES (1681) AND FOLLOWED WITH TRANSLATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF JUVENAL, ANACREON, CATULLUS, HORACE ET AL. IN POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS (1683); SEEN BY DRYDEN AS A KINDRED SPIRIT; NOT INCLUDED AMONG S.J.’S POETS: 69–71, 976

OLDMIXON, JOHN (1673–1742), HISTORIAN AND POLITICAL PAMPHLETEER; FULL-TIME POLEMICIST ON BEHALF OF THE WHIGS FROM 1710; HELPED SET UP THE MEDLEY, A WHIG WEEKLY (1710–11); AUTHOR OF THE SECRET HISTORY OF EUROPE (4 VOLS., 1712–15), Memoirs of North-Britain (1715) and The Critical History of England (2 vols., 1724–6); attacked Pope in The Catholick Poet (1716); Pope retaliated in The Dunciad; customs collector for the port of Bridgwater (1716); involved in major enterprise of Whig history-making: 161 n. a

Oldys, William (1696–1761), antiquary and herald; poem ‘Busy, Curious, Thirsty Fly!’ translated into Latin by S.J.; published own researches in The British Librarian from 1737; Harley’s literary secretary (1738); with S.J., produced the Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae (1743-4) to aid the sale of Harley’s collection; Norroy king-at-arms (1755); many incomplete annotations and editions harnessed by writers such as Warton and, in his Lives of the English Poets, S.J.: 20, 89, 100

Oliver, Dame (d. i73i), S.J.’s schoolmistress: 29

Omai (c. 1753-c. 1780), a native of the South SeaIslands; the first Tahitian to visit England, and feted as an embodiment of the ‘noble savage’; the subject of a celebrated portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds: 523

Opie, John (1761–1807), portrait and history painter; child prodigy; Reynolds and Horace Walpole enthusiastic admirers; dramatic success in history painting on a large scale with The Assassination of James I of Scotland (1786), exhibited at the Royal Academy; often talked of as an ‘English Rembrandt’; Royal Academician (1787); lecturer at the British Institution (1804-5): 1000 n. c

Orme, Captain (fl. 1781): 812

Orme, Robert (1728–1801), historian of India and East India Company servant; member of the Madras council (1754); governorship of Madras lasted just days after exposed for leaking confidential documents (1758); first official historiographer of the East India Company (1769); fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1770); author of History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan (2 vols., 1763–78); friends and admirers included Reynolds and Sir William Jones: 423, 452, 677

Orrery, John Boyle, 5th Earl of (1707–62), biographer; son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery; Tory and Jacobite when entering the House of Lords (1735); associate of Bolingbroke; on intimate terms with Pope from the early 1730s; best known for Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1751); translated Horace’s odes (1741) and Pliny’s letters (1751); thought of disparagingly by S.J.: 12, 105–6, 133, 139, 162, 328, 653, 658, 693, 784, 861

Osborn (fl. 1733), a Birmingham printer: 51

Osborne, Francis (1593–1659), author of Advice to a Son: 362

Osborne, Thomas (d. 1767), bookseller; purchased the Harleian Library and issued a catalogue, prepared by Johnson and William Oldys (1741-5); confrontation with Johnson over interference in his scholarship; substituted for Samuel Chapman in the urinating contest with Edmund Curll in Book 2 of the 1743 Dunciad;