Modern English biography

de Richelieu, Paris. OLLIER, CHARLES. _b._ Bath, Somersetshire 1788; clerk in Coutt’s bank, Strand, London 1802; publisher with his brother James Ollier at 3 Welbeck st. and then in Vere st. Bond st. 1816–22; a friend of Leigh Hunt; published Leigh Hunt’s Foliage 1818, Hero and Leander 1819, and The story of Rimini, 2 ed. 1819; also Keats’s Poems 1817, and Shelley’s The revolt of Islam 1817, the Collected works of Charles Lamb 1818, and several of Barry Cornwall’s volumes of Poems; literary adviser to Henry Colburn and then to Richard Bentley; a lecturer on celebrated writers; a publisher in Southampton st. Strand, London 1845–9; author of Altham and his wife, a domestic tale 1818; Inesilla, or the tempter, a romance, with other tales 1824; Ferrers, a romance, 3 vols. 1842; Fallacy of ghosts, dreams, and omens, with stories of witchcraft, life-in-death, and monomania 1848; Original views of London 1842, and Original views of Oxford 1843, 2 vols., letterpress by C. Ollier. _d._ 5 Caroline place, Fulham road, London 5 June 1859. _Correspondence of Leigh Hunt i_ 308–11, _ii_ 61 _etc._ (1862); _Spectator 18 June 1859 p._ 640; _Lady Shelley’s Shelley memorials_ (1875) _ix_ 80 _etc._; _Temple Bar lviii_ 243–52 (1880); _St. James’s Mag. xxxv_ 387–413 (1875). OLLIER, EDMUND (son of the preceding). _b._ near London 26 Nov. 1826; wrote for Ainsworth’s magazine, the Athenæum, All the year round 1850–70, and Household Words 1850–9; edited the first series of The essays of Elia for Hotten’s Worldwide library 1867; edited Leigh Hunt’s Tale for the chimney corner 1869; on staff of the Daily News 1853–77; sub-editor of The Leader 1855–8; editor of The Atlas 1859–60; literary editor of London review 1874–6; worked for the firm of Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, publishers; granted cross of the Italian order of S.S. Maurice and Lazarus 1867; author of Poems from the Greek mythology 1867; The Doré gallery 1870; Cassell’s History of the war between France and Germany, 2 vols. 1871–2, 3 ed. 1887–9; Cassell’s History of the United States, 3 vols. 1874–7; Our British portrait painters, from sir P. Lely to J. Sant 1874; Cassell’s Illustrated history of the Russo-Turkish war, 2 vols. 1877–9, 3 ed. 1889–91; Cassell’s Illustrated universal history, 4 vols. 1882–5, 2 ed. 1892; The life and times of queen Victoria by R. Wilson 1887, the first eleven chapters were by E. Ollier. _d._ 154 Oakley st. King’s road, Chelsea 19 April