Ralph Ouseley (1739)

Ralph Ouseley (1739-05-07[1][2]–1803[2]) was an Irish antiquarian and major in the British Army. (The family name is variously spelled Ouseley or Ousley.[3])

This article is about the Army major. For his grand-nephew the major-general, see Ralph Ouseley.

Family

His brother was John, who was father to Gideon Ouseley and grandfather to major-general Ralph Ouseley.

Ralph himself had several children by two wives. By his first wife Elizabeth Holland of Limerick (whom he married on 1763-04-01) he had three daughters and two sons, William who became an orientalist and Gore who became a Baronet.[1][2] Elizabeth died on 1782-11-28, and he took a second wife, Mary Collins, with whom he only had 1 surviving child, Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley who also became an orientalist.[2]

He lived in Limerick and in Dunmore, County Galway.[1]

Antiquarianism

Ralph was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and was a collector and an antiquarian.[1]

He was published several times in the Transactions of the Academy, including for example Ouseley 1788 which recounted his discovery of three Later Bronze Age horns in Carrigogunnell, County Limerick.[1] A partial account of his personal collection of antiquities was reported by Charles Étienne Coquebert de Montbret, who visited him in 1790.[1]

Works
  • Ouseley, Ralph (1788-01-01). "An Account of Three Metal Trumpets, Found in the County of Limerick, in the Year 1787". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 2: 3–5. JSTOR 30079247.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Ouseley, Ralph (1787). "An account of the moving of a bog, and the formation of a lake in the Co. of Galway. With 1 plate". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 2: 3–5. JSTOR 30079226.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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References
  1. Cahill 1993, p. 5.
  2. Foster 1881, p. 477.
  3. O'Hart 1892, p. 336.

Reference bibliography
  • Cahill, Mary (1993). "Some unrecorded Bronze Age gold ornaments from County Limerick" (PDF). North Munster Antiquarian Journal. 35: 5–22.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Foster, Joseph (1881). "Ouseley". The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire. 2. Nichols and Sons.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • O'Hart, John (1892). "Ouseley". Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. 2. J. Duffy and Company.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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