Robert Oliver (15 June 171015 November 1784) was
Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1759 until his death.
He was educated at
Merton College, Oxford
Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of Oxford University, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the ...
. On his appointment as
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...
he commented "Silence would best become me."
["The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901"
Ellison,R; Morgan-Guy,J: Tennant, R p291: Oxford; OUP; 2012 ]
References
1710 births
18th-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Archdeacons of the East Riding
1784 deaths
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