Oxley Road, on which Lee Kuan Yew's house is sited, is named after him.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Oxley Merchant of Wakefield, later Dublin Large Estate owner at Killiney until insolvency in 1830’s, and his wife Isabella Duffin, the daughter of Charles Duffin, Inspector General at the Irish Linen Board from 1791 until his resignation in 1810 due to alleged financial mishandlings.
[3] Oxley wrote a number of scientific papers, and was an early researcher on the uses of gutta percha.
Oxley began to sell off the land in his plantation in parcels, before leaving for England in 1857.
Oxley was a member of the committee formed to formulate rules for the Singapore Museum in 1849.