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Philip Oliver is the name of: * Philip Oliver (British politician) (1884–1954), British politician * Philip Oliver (cricketer) (born 1956), English cricketer * Philip Oliver (Irish politician) (c. 1720–1768), MP for Kilmallock * Philip Oliver, one of the Oliver Twins (born 1969), developer of computer games See also

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Philip Oliver (British Politician)
Philip Milner Oliver Order of the British Empire, CBE (20 August 1884 – 12 April 1954) was a radical British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom who served for two short terms as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Blackley (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester Blackley. Background He was born in Manchester, the son of J. R. Oliver. He was educated at Bowdon College, Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he received a Bachelor of Arts. He qualified as a Barrister-at-law. Career In 1909 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn and practised on the Northern Circuit. In 1914, at the age of 30, he was selected as Liberal party prospective parliamentary candidate for the Knutsford (UK Parliament constituency), Knutsford division of Cheshire. This was a Unionist seat that the Liberal had only ever won once, in 1906. The outbreak of war postponed the general election. During th ...
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Philip Oliver (cricketer)
Philip Robert Oliver (born 9 May 1956) is a former English cricketer. Oliver was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire and educated at Burton Borough School in Newport, Shropshire.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Warwickshire Oliver made his debut in county cricket for Shropshire in the 1972 Minor Counties Championship against Durham, with Oliver representing the county from 1972 to 1974. It was for Shropshire that he made his List A debut for against Essex in the 1974 Gillette Cup, a match in which he scored 2 runs before being dismissed by Ray East. He later made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Glamorgan in the 1975 County Championship. A regular over the coming seasons, Oliver played 89 first-class matches for Warwickshire from 1975 to 1982, with his final first-class appearance coming against Yorkshire in the 1982 County Championship. A batting all-rounder, Oliver ...
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Philip Oliver (Irish Politician)
Philip Oliver is the name of: * Philip Oliver (British politician) (1884–1954), British politician * Philip Oliver (cricketer) (born 1956), English cricketer * Philip Oliver (Irish politician) (c. 1720–1768), MP for Kilmallock * Philip Oliver, one of the Oliver Twins (born 1969), developer of computer games See also * Philip Olivier Philip Lawrence Borg-Olivier (born on 4 June 1980) is a British actor, model and stage performer best known for playing the role of Tim "Tinhead" O'Leary in the soap opera '' Brookside''. Career Olivier's first role was in 1995 in the Chann ...
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Oliver Twins
Andrew Nicholas Oliver and Philip Edward Oliver, together known as the Oliver Twins, are British twin brothers and video game designers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration ''Super Robin Hood'', creating the ''Dizzy'' series of games and many of Codemasters' Simulator Series games. At one point during the 1980s it was reported that 7% of all UK games sales were attributable to the Oliver Twins. In 1990 they founded Interactive Studios which later became Blitz Games Studios. In October 2013 they founded Radiant Worlds, based in Leamington Spa, with long time friend and colleague Richard Smithies. History Philip and Andrew Oliver first began programming computer games while at school (Clarendon School in Trowbridge). They discovered their interest in computing when their ...
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