Modern English biography

attached to St. Swithin’s church 7 March. OLIVER, JOHN (son of John Oliver, shopkeeper). _b._ Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire 7 Nov. 1838; educ. Carmarthen sch. and at Carmarthen presbyterian college to 1859; Congregational minister and an occasional preacher in Welsh and English; author of Welsh poems on David, the prince of the Lord; The beauties of nature; The widow of Nain; The wreck of the Royal Charter and Myfyrdod; author of English poems on Life, and When I die. _d._ Llanfynydd 24 June 1866. _Cerddi Cystudd edited by Henry Oliver_ (1867) _portrait_. OLIVER, JOHN. _b._ 1804; educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; V. of Warmington, near Oundle 1844–73; chaplain to King’s college hospital, London 1855–62; warden of the London diocesan penitentiary, Highgate 1862 to death, where he was very successful in the reformation of the poor girls. _d._ The Penitentiary, Highgate 10 July 1883. _Guardian 11 July 1883 p._ 1023. OLIVER, MARTHA CRANMER (dau. of John Oliver, scene-painter). _b._ Salisbury 1834; appeared at Salisbury theatre 1840; first appeared in London at Marylebone theatre 1847; played at Lyceum 1849–55; always known as Pattie Oliver; acted Matilda in Married for money at Drury Lane 10 Oct. 1855, and Celia in As you like it 4 Sept. 1856; played in Talfourd’s burlesque of Atalanta at Haymarket 14 April 1857; leading actress at Strand theatre 1858–61, where she played Amy Robsart in Ye queen, ye earl and ye maiden 29 Dec. 1858, Pauline in Byron’s burlesque The lady of Lyons 14 June 1859, Lisetta in Talfourd’s burlesque Tell and the strike of the cantons 26 Dec. 1859, and the Prince in Byron’s burlesque Cinderella 26 Dec. 1860; the original Mary Meredith in Our American cousin at Haymarket 16 Nov. 1861; played Beautiful Haidee in Byron’s burlesque of that name at Princess’s 10 April 1863; lessee and manager of New Royalty theatre March 1866 to 30 April 1870; played Meg in H. T. Craven’s Meg’s Diversion 17 Oct. 1866; produced F. C. Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, in which she played Susan 29 Nov. 1866, which ran 420 nights and was revived 3 March 1870; produced A. Halliday’s drama Daddy Gray 1 Feb. 1868, and his drama The loving cup 26 Nov. 1868; _m._ 26 Dec. 1876 Wm. Charles Phillips of Bond st. London, auctioneer; she _d._ 5 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Dec. 1880. _The Players i_ 97–8 (1860) _portrait_. 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