Benjamin Oliveira FRS FSA (1806 – 28 September 1865) of Hyde Park Street, London was a British Whig politician. He was the son of Dominick Oliveira, a London merchant of Portuguese descent and spent much of his early life in Portugal. He then moved, by now well-to-do, to live in Hyde Park Street, London, where he took an interest in the development of railways, wrote a book about his travels and joined the Whig political party. Oliveira was first elected Whig MP for

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, but was defeated at the next election in 1857. He was a member of the council of the Society of Arts and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835. He died at his London home in 1865.

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* Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1857–1859 Fellows of the Royal Society 1806 births 1865 deaths {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub