 The couple had two children.O'Dwyer's wife Una ("née" Bord) was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in her own right in the 1919 Birthday Honours, in which their daughter, Una Mary O'Dwyer, was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire.In his book "India as I knew it" (1925), O'Dwyer disclosed that his time as administrator in Punjab was preoccupied by the threat of terrorism and spread of political agitation.