[citation needed] He was recognized as the Chief of his name by the Somerset Herald, Sir Henry Farnham Burke, in 1896.
Jorge Torlades O'Neill II was a Honorary Officer-Major of the Royal Household, Moço-Fidalgo of the Royal Household with exercise in the Palace (Alvará of 3 December 1881), elected Peer of the Realm, Deputy, Main Manager of the Casa Commercial Torlades, Director of the Banco de Portugal, President of the Administration Council of the Companhia Portuguesa de Phósphoros and of the Companhia dos Telephones, etc.
He was also a personal friend of King Carlos I of Portugal and Roger Casement.
[3] Jorge Torlades O'Neill II owned several properties in and around Lisbon.
[4] He married in Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho, on 14 July 1873 Maria Isabel Mazziotti Fernandes (Lisbon, São Julião (now extinct), 4 January 1855 – Lisbon, Encarnação, 7 May 1953), daughter of José Gregório Fernandes, Industrialist, great Capitalist and Proprietor, Knight of the Order of Christ, etc., and wife Isabel Maria Mazziotti da Costa Cordeiro,[5] and had four children: