James Adey Ogle, Physician of Oxford

James Adey Ogle (1792–1857)

James Adey Ogle was born in London on 22 October 1892, the son of Richard Ogle, a general practitioner, and his wife Hannah Adey.

He went up to Trinity College, Oxford from Eton in 1810 when he was 17 and graduated in 1813 with a First in Mathematics and Physics. He then pursued medical studies in several hospitals and graduated from Oxford as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1817.

He remained in Oxford, obtaining a university licence in 1817 to practise medicine.

In 1819 he married Sarah Homfray, the younger daughter of Jeston Homfray of Broadwaters, near Kidderminster, and they had nine children:

Janet Ogle (born in High Street, Oxford in 1820/1 and baptised privately by Thomas Lee, President of Trinity College, Oxford on 29 March 1821 and entered in baptismal register of St Peter-in-the-East Church)
Twins Amelia and Caroline Ogle (born in High Street, Oxford in 1821/2, received into St Peter-in-the East Church on 20 June 1822 and baptised by Thomas Lee, President of Trinity, on 21 September 1822)
Mary Ogle (born in Oxford in 1823/4 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 27 June 1824)
James Ambrose Ogle (born in Oxford in 1824/5 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 4 January 1825)
Richard Jeston Ogle (born in Oxford in c.1826 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 23 October 1826
William Ogle (born in Oxford in 1827/8 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 30 March 1828)
Octavius Ogle (born in Oxford in 1828/9 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 17 June 1829)
Isabella Henrietta Ogle (born in Oxford in 1832 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 25 November 1832).

He and his new wife were living at the east end of the High in the early 1820s, but then moved to Magdalen Street, probably in early 1824, the Ogle was appointed Aldrichian Professor of Medicine at Oxford and also Physician to both the Radcliffe Infirmary and the Radcliffe (or Warneford) Lunatic Asylum in Headington. (The resident apothecary at the latter, Frederick Wintle, must have respected him, as he had his son baptised as Ogle Wintle in 1834.)

62-64 St Giles

Ogle’s practice was in St Giles’s Street, and he is first listed as a physician there in Pigot’s Directory for 1823/4; the house where he practised is specified as No. 63 in Robson’s Directory for 1839. He gave his lectures at this house (centre, left), which was demolished with its adjoining neighbours to make way for Blackfriars.

In the 1830s the family was still living down the road in Magdalen Street. Ogle’s wife Sarah died in 1835 at the age of 44 and was buried on 25 May at St Mary Magdalen Church; and his father Richard Ogle died at the age of 79 early in 1841 (probably at his son’s house), and he too was buried at that church.

In 1830 Ogle was appointed Professor of Clinical Medicine at Oxford.

At the time of the 1841 census Ogle was a widower, still living at Magdalen Street with his son James (15) and his five daughters (Janet, Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Isabella), looked after by four servants. His other three sons were all away at boarding school: Richard (14) was at Winchester; William (13) at Rugby; and Octavius (12) at Repton.

Around this time the practice spread to the house next-door as well (64 St Giles’s Street) and the family moved from Magdalen Street to 63 St Giles’s Street. (The exact date is unclear, as the lower part of St Giles’s Street is also in the parish of St Mary Magdalen.)

In February 1846, when John Henry Newman left Oxford for ever, he wrote, “I called on Dr. Ogle, one of my very oldest friends, for he was my private tutor when I was an undergraduate.”

On 16 July 1850 at St Mary Magdalen Church, his daughter Caroline Ogle was married to Manual John Johnson, the Radcliffe Observer. William Tuckwell wrote that undergraduates declared that the four colossal female figures on top of the older part of the Taylorian building (completed 1845) were the four remaining Miss Ogles.

Ogle was living as well as working at 63 St Giles’s Street at the time of the 1851 census. Aged 58, he described himself as "Physician, M.D. Oxford, Fellow of College of Surgeons, Oxford". Three of his unmarried daughters (Janet, Mary, and Isabella) were at home with him, and they had five house servants. His fourth unmarried daughter Amelia was staying with her married sister Caroline. On 26 October 1851 he was appointed Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Around the same time his son Richard Jeston Ogle, a Fellow of Lincoln College aged about 24, died at Winchester.

Five more of Ogle’s children were married in the 1850s :

On 11 October 1853 at St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford, Mary Ogle married the Revd Charles Walter Payne Crawfurd;
On 16 January 1855 St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford. Isabella Henrietta Ogle married the Revd Charles Terry;
In the second quarter of 1856 at West Ashford in Kent. James Ambrose Ogle married Henrietta Agneta Pellew;
On 10 July 1856 St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford, Amelia Ogle married the Revd James Bowling Mozley;
In the fourth quarter of 1858 in Newent, Gloucestershire, Octavius Ogle married Maud Harris Burland.

Janet Ogle, James Adey Ogle’s eldest daughter, was the only one of the five sisters who did not marry, and she probably kept house for her father, who had been a widower since 1835.

On 16 July 1851 his son the Revd Richard Jeston Ogle, an unmarried Fellow of Lincoln College, died at Winchester at the age of 26.

On 26 October 1851 Ogle was appointed Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford.

James Adey Ogle died of apoplexy at the age of 64 on 25 September 1857 while on a visit to his daughter Amelia and her husband at Old Shoreham, and his body was brought back to Oxford for a funeral at St Mary Magdalen Church and burial in St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 2 October. His grave can be seen here.

The following obituary appeared in Jackson’s Oxford Journal for 3 October 1857:

Death of the Regius Professor of Medicine.

Intelligence reached Oxford on Saturday last of the death of James Adey Ogle, M.D., Regius and Aldrichian Professor of Medicine, Tomline’s Praelector and Aldrichian Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Professor. He expired at Old Shoreham, at the residence of his son-in-law, the Rev. J. B. Mozley, vicar of the parish, at seven o’clock on Friday morning, after an illness of thirty hours.

Dr. Ogle was a member of Trinity College, having entered that Society in the year 1809, under the Presidency of Dr. Lee. He was a Scholar of his College, but married before succeeding to a Fellowship. He took the degree of B.A. in 1813, when he was placed in the First Class in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis, together with five others. In 1816 he proceeded to the degree of M.A., and in 1817, having turned his attention to medicine, he took the degree of B.M. In the year 1820 he became a D.M., and in 1824, on the resignation of Dr. Bourne, he was elected by Convocation to fill the Aldrichian Professor of Medicine. In 1825 he was for one term Mathematical Examiner. In 1830, on the demise of Dr. Bourne, he became Clynical Professor by the election of Convocation; and in 1851, upon the demise of Dr. Kidd, he was appointed by the Crown to the Regius Professorship of Medicine, to which were then attached the Aldrichian Professorship and the Tomline Readership in Anatomy. Finally, in 1854, shortly after the formation of the new School of Natural Science, he accepted the office of Examiner in that School, which he retained for the full term of two years.

Dr. Ogle was a man of liberal views, and of great depth and sincerity of feeling. He was singularly open, straightforward, and fearless, a most warm and zealous friend, and so full of kindness and good-nature that it was impossible he should make an enemy. From his practice, which was once extensive, he had in great measure withdrawn, but he continued to attend to old patients, and to dispense gratuitous advice to the poor and necessitous. In his profession his eminence is marked by the appointments conferred upon him. His loss is deeply felt, and will long be heavily deplored by a large circle of friends, to whom his genial disposition, warm feelings, and active kindness, had greatly endeared him. He was, we believe, in the 65th year of his age.—The funeral took place yesterday (Friday), and the remains of the deceased were interred at the Jericho Cemetery.

Ogle’s wealth at death was about £28,000.

Wikipedia entry for James Ogle

The nine Ogle children

Janet Ogle (born 1820/1) never married, and died at the age of 69 on 14 October 1890 and was buried with her father.
Caroline Ogle (born 1821/2), Mrs Johnson: more information here on the page about the grave of Caroline and her husband in St Sepulchre's cemetery.
Amelia Ogle (born 1821/22), Mrs Mozley: more information here on the page about the grave of Amelia and her husband in St Sepulchre's cemetery.
Mary Ogle (born 1823/4), Mrs Crawfurd, was living in the Rectory House, Stow-on-the-Wold in 1861 with her husband Charles, who was the Curate of Bourton-on-the-Water, and their children Gibbs (6), Arabella (5), Caroline (4), Robert (3), Georgina (2), Charles (1), and Harriet (eight months). She was in East Grinstead in 1871 with her husband and eight of children: Arabella Payne Crawfurd (15), Caroline Payne Crawfurd (14), Robert Payne Crawfurd (13), Georgina Mary Payne Crawfurd (12), Harriet Byne Crawfurd (10), Proby E. P. Crawfurd (7), Lionel Payne Crawfurd (6), Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd (5), and Janet P. Crawfurd (2). She and her husband were still there in 1881 and 1891 with four of their children. Mary died there in 8 May 1893 at the age of 69. Her executors were her sons Charles and Lionel, who had both been ordained.
James Ambrose Ogle (born 1824/5) was Vicar of Sedgeford, Norfolk in 1861 and he and his wife Henrietta were living there with there three children Margreatt J. Ogle (born 1857), Richard J. Ogle (3), and Charles Pellew Ogle (eight months). They were still there in 1871 and had four more children: John Gilbert Ogle (born 1862), Frances Marian Ogle (born 1863), Gertrude Octavia Mary Ogle (born 1865), and Ambrose Addington Ogle (born 1866). Ogle remained Vicar of Sedgeford until at least 1891. James Ambrose Ogle died at Granard, Somers Road, Reigate at the age of 75 on 20 February 1900. His effects came to £71,271 18s. 9d., and his executors were his widow Henrietta and two of his sons: John, who was a doctor, and Ambrose, who was a schoolmaster.
Richard Jeston Ogle (born in c.1826) never married and died in Winchester at the age of 24 in 1851.
William Ogle (born 1827/8) was a physician in 1861, lodging in Westminster. By the time of the 1871 census he was a Civil Service Statistical Superintendant working in Somerset House, and he and his wife Parthenia were living at 34 Clarges Street in Westminster with three servants. They do not appear to have had any children. In 1881 they were living at 10 Gordon Street, St Pancras, and were still there in 1901, when William was retired. He died in St Pancras at the age of 84 in 1912.
Octavius Ogle (born 1828/9) became a Fellow of Lincoln College. He and his wife Maud lived at 20 Park Crescent (now 15 Park Town): their daughter Helen Maud Ogle was baptised at St Giles’s Church on 26 May 1860. Their other two daughters were baptised in the new Ss Philip & James Church: Muriel Lilian Ogle on 16 September 1864 and Lilian Alice Margaret Ogle on 25 April 1868. Lilian’s baptism was private, and she died five days later aged four weeks and was buried at St Giles’s Church on 21 September 1865. Helen married the surgeon Daniel Herbert Forty at SS Philip & James Church on 9 June 1881. The Revd Octavius Ogle was Chaplain of the Warneford Lunatic Asylum in Headington in his latter years. He died at 20 Park Crescent, Oxford at the age of 65 on 27 June 1894. His effects came to £13,185 14s. 1d.
Isabella Henrietta Ogle, Mrs Terry (born 1832/3) was living at Old Hall, Tostock, Suffolk at the time of the 1861 census with her husband, Charles, who was Rector of Harleston, and their children Charles Terry (5), Caroline Terry (4), Isabel Terry (2), and Mabel Terry (1). They were still there in 1871 with seven more children: Walter Eyre Terry and Frances Eyre Terry (twins, 9), Douglas Terry (7), Eleanor Terry (5), Ernest Terry and Kathleen Terry (twins, 4), Mildred Terry (2), and Mary Evelyn Terry (four months). In 1881 they had three more children, bringing the total to 14: Geoffrey Francis Terry (8), Florence Terry (7), and Norah Mary Terry (6). They then had five servants, plus a governess. In 1911 Isabella was a widow of 78, living at a house in Bury St Edmunds named Tostock after her former home with her daughter Kathleen. She died in Suffolk at the age of 83 on 1 May 1916. Her effects came to £13,185 14s. 1d., and her executors were her son Ernest, who was a land agent, and her daughter Kathleen.