OLIVER, Nathaniel Wilmot. Second lieut. R.A. 2 June 1796, colonel 10 Jany. 1837; col. commandant 18 Feb. 1851 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Clifton 11 Jany. 1854.
OLIVER, Richard Aldworth (son of admiral Robert Dudley Oliver). b. 1811; entered navy 26 April 1825, lieut. 28 June 1838, captain 11 Dec. 1854, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 Oct. 1884; served at battle of Navarino 1827; commanded the Monarch in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854; chairman of the sanitary committee of Marylebone, London to death; published A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand 1853. d. 38 Grove-end road, St. John’s Wood, London 13 Sept. 1889.
OLIVER, Richard Silver (1 son of Robert S. Oliver of Darrington, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, d. 1842). Educ. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 29 July 1830, captain 16 Dec. 1836, sold out 25 June 1844; hunted at Melton, Bicester and Northampton; settled at Bolton Percy, Yorkshire; a supporter of the Bramham Moor hounds; a coachman and a good shot. d. Bolton lodge Feb. 1889. Baily’s Mag. li 208–9 (1889).
OLIVER, Samuel. b. 1801; V. of Calverton, near Nottingham 1826 to death; author of Emma Whiteford, or death in the bosom of the church 1852; War and its probable consequences as foreshadowed in holy scripture 1855; Village lectures on some controverted articles of Catholic faith. d. in a cottage in Calverton village Sept. 1874. bur. 1 Oct.
OLIVER, Thomas. b. about 1776; founded with George Boyd, firm of Oliver and Boyd, publishers, Edinburgh 1806, retired in 1843 after George Boyd’s death. d. Newington lodge, Edinburgh 26 April 1853.
OLIVER, Thomas. b. Breadlow, Bucks. June 1789; employed by Mr. Baker of Millbank, London, gardener; fought and beat Kimber a stone-mason at Tothill Fields, Westminster 1811; always known afterwards as the Chelsea gardener; beat George Cooper at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 15 May 1813, and Edward Painter at Shepperton Range, Middlesex 17 May 1814; landlord of the Duke’s Head 31 Peter st. Westminster 1814; fought Jack Carter at Gretna Green for 100 guineas a side 4 Oct. 1816, when he was badly beaten in 32 rounds lasting 46 minutes; beaten by Wm. Neat at Rickmansworth, Herts. 10 July 1818 in 28 rounds lasting one hour; beat Kendrick the black 28 May 1819; beaten by Daniel Donnelly, the Irish champion 21 July 1819 at Crawley Hurst, Sussex for 100 guineas a side; beat Tom Shelton at Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 13 Jany. 1820; beaten by Edward Painter at North Walsham, Norfolk 17 July 1820; beaten by Tom Spring at Hayes, Middlesex 20 Feb. 1821 for 100 guineas a side 25 rounds in 55 minutes; beaten by T. Hickman 12 June 1821 at Blindow Heath, Surrey for £100 a side; beaten by Wm. Abbott at Moulsey Hurst 6 Nov. 1821, 33 rounds in 54 minutes; commissary of the ring, taking charge of the ropes and stakes; beat Benjamin Burn at Hampton, Middlesex 28 Jany. 1834; a fruiterer and greengrocer in Pimlico and Chelsea. d. London June 1864. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii 89–103 (1880) portrait; The Fancy. By An Operator i 609–16 (1826) portrait; Boxiana ii 954 (1818), iii 262 (1825) portrait, iv 233 etc.; Hannan’s British boxing, part 2, pp. 43–6.
OLIVER, Thomas. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 6 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1805, captain 16 Nov. 1818; major 3 N.I. 13 July 1827; lieut. col. of 3 N.I 3 July 1832 to 1838, and of 12 N.I. 1838 to 10 April 1843; col. of 37 N.I. 13 March 1844 to 1869; general 19 June 1866. d. 43 Duke street, Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1872.
OLIVER, Thomas (son of a farmer and maltster). b. Angmering, Sussex; a stable boy to his uncle, Mr. Page of Epsom; rode light weights for lord Mountcharles; sold horses at fairs for Mr. Farrell of Liverpool; became a steeple chase rider; rode Harlequin at Clifton and won; won the Great Dunchurch steeplechase on Foreigner; a partner with Mr. Curlewis; in Northampton gaol for debt; landlord of The Star at Leamington; won the Great Liverpool on Jerry; a steeple chaser trainer at Prestbury; brought out Charles Boyce and Robert James. Sporting Review xli 249–54 (1859).
OLIVER, William. b. about 1804; landscape painter, chiefly in water-colours; member of the New society (now royal institute) of painters in water-colours 1834; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 54 at B.I., and 36 at Suffolk st. 1829–53; published Scenery of the Pyrenees, lithographed by G. Barnand, T. S. Boys, Carl Hughe and others 1843. d. Langley Mill house, Halstead, Essex 2 Nov. 1853.
OLLENDORFF, Heinrick Godefroy, or Hermann Gerschal. b. Rewitsch, Posen, Prussia about 1802; professor of the German language and literature; resided in 1843 at 23 Titchbourne st. Westminster; his system of acquiring a language was founded on the principle, that each question contained nearly the answer required to be returned; Capt. Basil Hall recommended this system to the English; naturalised in England 20 Dec. 1850; author of A new method of learning to read, write and speak a language in six months, adapted to the German, two parts 1838–41; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the French 1843, 9 ed. 1861; A new method of learning to read, etc., applied to the Italian 1846, 5 ed. 1865; Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à lire, à écrire et à parler une language en six mois, appliquée à l’Anglais, Paris 1848, 6 ed. 1856; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the Spanish 1858; Introduction à la méthode Ollendorff, appliquée au Latin, Paris 1862; the above works all went to many editions in various languages, with keys to them in other volumes. d. Paris 1865.