“ Ormsby was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and won a silver medal for chemistry at the University of London. A member of the Middle Temple, Mr. Ormsby was never called to the Bar, for his literary tastes were developed early, and articles from his pen appeared in the Saturday Review, in Fraser's Magazine, in the Quarterly Review, the Cornhill, and Pall Mall Gazette. In 1862 Mr. Ormsby—then a prominent member of the Alpine Club—contributed to the second series of "Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers" an account of his ascent of the Pic de Grivola, in the Graian Alps. ”