Bromley
House Library 1816 to 1916
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J.B. Okell
Subscriber: 4/9/1894 to 1/5/1899.
Mrs S. Oldacres
Subscriber: April 1877 to 4/12/1894.
The share was passed from Rev Samuel
Oldacres.
Rev Samuel Oldacres
Address: Gonalston; Woodborough (1848).
Subscriber: 7/8/1837 to April 1877.
The share was passed to Mrs Oldacres.
Oldershaw & Co
Tenant
A letter from them was recorded on 6/1/1891 but its
content was not recorded.
Miss Oldknow
Subscriber: 6/12/1824 to 4/10/1830.
Lady Oldknow (Amy Oldknow)
Address: Rockhurst, Villa Road.
Subscriber: 1/5/1894 to 6/7/1909.
Share number: 160 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).
Henry Oldknow
Surgeon
Subscriber: 4/3/1816 to 6/6/1836.
Committee: 1824, 1825.
He signed the Library Rules
(1816-1830).
He was named as a Trustee of Bromley House in the
minute and document of 1/4/1822.
Following his enquiry the Medical Society was
allowed to rent a room at Bromley House occupied by the mineralogical
cases for £10 per annum exclusive of candles, coals and all other
expenses. (6/9/1824)
He was Agewise in the pamphlet
The Literary
Mousetrap published on 14/2/1829 satirising the debates that
were
taking place at Bromley House Library.
Henry Oldknow
Subscriber: 5/12/1836 to 5/11/1838.
Henry Oldknow was named as a
Trustee of the Library
in 1858 but no one of that name was listed as a subscriber. (Russell,
1916)
Sir James Oldknow
Lord Mayor of Nottingham: 1877-78 and 1878-1879.
In 1878 the Mayor of Nottingham and T.R. Starey requested that
coloured
lithographs illustrating Robert’s Holy
Land be lent to the Corporation
for exhibition at the Castle Museum for six months on condition that
the Corporation insure them for £100. (4/3/1878)
Octavius Thomas Oldknow
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 19/12/1817.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).
Rev Oliver,
MD
On 3/10/1859 it was agreed that he was allowed to consult books in the
Library.
Thomas Andrew Oliver
Lace manufacturer.
Address: Southfield House, Bramcote.
Subscriber: 10/4/1888 to 7/4/1903.
Share number: 161 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).
Committee: 1899, 1900, 1902.
He purchased an original share and a sum of
£1 0s 0d was received on 11/4/1887 as commission on
this.
Book Committee: 1899, 1902.
Magazine sub-committee: 9/10/1900.
He wrote on 10/3/1903 to resign from the Committee
as he was leaving the neighbourhood.
Rev C. Orlebar
Address: Low Pavement (Mrs Dudley's South Parade).
Subscriber: 3/3/1851 to 4/10/1858 and 7/5/1860 to 11/11/1861.
The Standfast Ledger records nine borrowings between
16/1/1843 and 10/11/1855.
Mr Orrock(s)
Subscriber: 7/1/1856 to 4/12/1861 .
Mrs Orock or Mrs Allcock
The Share Interest Book shows that she held six Bromley House Debenture
Shares from January 1859 to January 1860 and then three shares up to
January 1861 when they were transferred to a Mrs Carter.
Rev Owen Orton
Subscriber: 2/8/1869 to 6/5/1872.
Samuel W. Oscroft, Esq.
(1834-1924)
Address: 27 Chaucer Street.
Subscriber: 5/2/1895 to 1916.
Share number: 162 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901)
His father was a lace manufacturer and Samuel was an artist who
designed lace curtains.
W. Oswald
Subscriber: 7/11/1882 to 1/4/1890.
He bought an original share for £50 and the
subscription was to be paid up to 1/4/1883 (6/11/1882)
Otley
Bookseller
See –– Saunders & Otley.
Mr Owen
In 1857 of the 39 candidates who applied to replace John
Walton, twelve
made the first short-list and then six, of which Owen was one, received
detailed consideration (7/12/1857).
Oxford
Printers.
On 9/6/1880 they were invited to submit samples for the new catalogue.
They seem not to have done so and were thus unsuccessful.
This page was last updated on
28 January
2008
Neal Priestland