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Ralph Ouseley (1739)
Ralph Ouseley (7 May 1739[1][2]–1803[2]) was an Irish antiquarian and major in the British Army. (The family name is variously spelled Ouseley or Ousley.[3]) FamilyHis 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.[1][2] 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.[2] He lived in Limerick and in Dunmore, County Galway.[1] AntiquarianismRalph 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
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