Drigue Billers Olmius, 2nd Baron Waltham (12 March 1746 – 10 December 1786
/ref> ''or'' 10 February 1787), was a British politician. Olmius was the son of

John Olmius, 1st Baron Waltham John Olmius, 1st Baron Waltham (18 July 1711 – 5 October 1762), of New Hall, Boreham, Essex, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1737 and 1762. Background Olmius was the only son of John Olmius, ...

, by Anne, daughter of Sir William Billers,

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in 1733. He succeeded his father in the barony in October 1762, aged 16. This was an

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and gave him a seat in the

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although not in the English

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. In 1768 he was returned to parliament as one of four representatives for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, a seat he held until 1774. From 1784 until his death in 1787 he sat as Member of Parliament for

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. Lord Waltham died childless in February 1787, aged 40, when the barony became extinct. He was succeeded in the family estates by his sister, the Honourable Elizabeth. She was the wife of John Luttrell, 3rd Earl of Carhampton, who assumed the additional surname of Olmius. His widow Frances Coe whom he married in 1767 died on 25 October 1819 in her 76th year.

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