Background
Ould was the son of an army Captain and a Mission Shawe of Galway, in which city he was born.
Ould was the son of an army Captain and a Mission Shawe of Galway, in which city he was born.
He studied in Paris and settled in Golden Lane, Dublin as a medical practitioner in 1736.
An obstetrician, he acquired a huge practice and was master of a lying-in hospital. In 1759 he was knighted for services to the medical profession. He died at his home on South Frederick Street and was buried at Saint Anne"s Churchyard, Dawson Street.