Ralph Ouseley (1739)

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Ralph Ouseley (7 May 1739{{sfn|Cahill|1993|p=5}}{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}–1803{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}) was an Irish antiquarian and major in the British Army. (The family name is variously spelled Ouseley or Ousley.{{sfn|O'Hart|1892|p=336}})

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 1 April 1763) he had three daughters and two sons, William who became an orientalist and Gore who became a Baronet.{{sfn|Cahill|1993|p=5}}{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}

Elizabeth died on 28 November 1782, 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.{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}

He lived in Limerick and in Dunmore, County Galway.{{sfn|Cahill|1993|p=5}}

Antiquarianism

Ralph was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and was a collector and an antiquarian.{{sfn|Cahill|1993|p=5}}

He was published several times in the Transactions of the Academy, including for example {{harvnb|Ouseley|1788}} which recounted his discovery of three Later Bronze Age horns in Carrigogunnell, County Limerick.{{sfn|Cahill|1993|p=5}}

A partial account of his personal collection of antiquities was reported by {{ill|Charles Étienne Coquebert de Montbret|fr|Charles Coquebert de Montbret}}, who visited him in 1790.{{sfn|Cahill|1993|p=5}}

= Works =

{{cite journal|author1-link=Ralph Ouseley (1739)|author1-first=Ralph|author1-last=Ouseley|title=An Account of Three Metal Trumpets, Found in the County of Limerick, in the Year 1787|journal=The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy|volume=2|pages=3–5|date=1788-01-01|jstor=30079247}}
{{cite journal|author1-link=Ralph Ouseley (1739)|author1-first=Ralph|author1-last=Ouseley|title=An account of the moving of a bog, and the formation of a lake in the Co. of Galway. With 1 plate.|journal=The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy|volume=2|date=1787|pages=3–5|jstor=30079226}}

References

= Reference bibliography =

{{cite journal|author1-last=Cahill|author1-first=Mary|year=1993|title=Some unrecorded Bronze Age gold ornaments from County Limerick|journal=North Munster Antiquarian Journal|volume=35|pages=5–22|url=http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/NMAJ%20vol%2035%2001%20Some%20unrecorded%20Bronze%20Age%20gold%20ornaments%20from%20County%20Limerick,%20by%20Mary%20Cahill.pdf}}
{{cite dictionary|article=Ouseley|volume=2|dictionary=The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire|year=1881|author1-first=Joseph|author1-last=Foster|publisher=Nichols and Sons}}
{{cite book|chapter=Ouseley|title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation|volume=2|author1-first=John|author1-last=O'Hart|publisher=J. Duffy and Company|year=1892}}