[1] He was born in Dublin in September 1843,[2] the second son of the Rt Hon Henry Ormsby, Chancery Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, and his wife and first cousin Julia Hamilton, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
[3] His first post was a curacy in Eglingham[4] after which he held incumbencies[5] in Jarrow,[6] Rainton[7] and Walworth.
Like Straton and Wild, Ormsby was a strong supporter of British participation in the War.
'Men and women have begun to realise the greatness of the cause...The cause of justice and righteousness and truth and freedom is one and the same everywhere, and without the unfeigned desire for these fellowship and progress may be but empty names.
Ormsby's brother, Edwin, was a long-serving Rector of Hartlepool, 1874-1915, including at the time of the bombardment of the town by the German navy in 1914.