The Rt. Hon. Silver Oliver PC (1736 – 21 November 1798) was an Irish landowner and Privy Counsellor politician who owned Castle Oliver in

County Limerick County Limerick () is a western Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Reg ...

, Ireland.

Early life

He was the son of Jane Katherine (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Silver) Oliver and Robert Oliver, who also sat in the Irish House of Commons for

Kilmallock Kilmallock () is a town in south County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, near the border with County Cork, 30 km south of Limerick city. There is a Dominican Priory in the town and King John's Castle (Kilmallock), King's Castle (or K ...

. His paternal grandfather was Robert Oliver (son of Charles Oliver who lived at Clonodfoy, County Limerick) and was also an Irish MP for Kilmallock and County Limerick.

Career

He held the office of Member of Parliament for

in 1757. He held the office of High Sheriff of County Limerick in 1764. He held the office of Member of Parliament for

in 1768, serving until 1776. In 1769, he was appointed Privy Councillor.

Personal life

On 4 February 1759, Oliver was married to Isabella Sarah Newman (d. 1777), a daughter of Richard Newman. Together, they lived at Castle Oliver in County Limerick, Ireland. They were the parents of: * Samual Oliver (–1769), who died young. * Katherine Oliver (–1818), who married Henry Sandford, 1st Baron Mount Sandford, MP for the borough of

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(and grandson of Stephen Moore, 1st Viscount Mountcashell), in 1780. * Richard Philip Oliver-Gascoigne (1762–1843), who married Mary Turner, daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet and step-daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet. * Charles Silver Oliver (1763–1817), who married Maria Elizabeth Morris, daughter of banker Abraham Morris, in 1805. * Jane Oliver (), who married Rev. William Sandford, son of Henry Sandford; their son succeeded as the 2nd Baron Mount Sandford. * Silver Oliver (1770–1834), MP for Kilmallock in 1797 who died unmarried. * Susanna Oliver (–1857), who married Rev. Hans Hamilton, rector of

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and a son of Rt. Rev. Hugh Hamilton, in 1801. * Isabella Sarah Oliver (b. ), who married John Waller of Castletown, son of John Thomas Waller. * Elizabeth Oliver (b. ), who died unmarried. * Robert Oliver (–1834), who married Sarah Shepley (née Barker) Sotheran, widow of William Sotheran and daughter of Edmund Barker, in 1809. Oliver died on 21 November 1798.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oliver, Silver 1736 births 1798 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Limerick constituencies Politicians from County Limerick Members of the Privy Council of Ireland