Arthur Ollivier
{{short description|New Zealand cricketer and mountaineer}}
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| full_name = Arthur Morton Ollivier
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|03|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hammersmith, Middlesex, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1897|10|21|1851|03|23|df=y}}
| death_place = Christchurch, New Zealand
| family = John Ollivier (father)
Keith Ollivier (son)
| batting = Right-handed
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| role = Wicketkeeper
| club1 = Canterbury
| year1 = 1866/67–1882/83
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| matches1 = 11
| runs1 = 349
| bat avg1 = 23.26
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| date = 3 January
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Arthur Morton Ollivier (23 March 1851 – 21 October 1897) was a businessman in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cricketer, mountaineer, and chess player. Mount Ollivier is named after him.
Early life
Ollivier was born in 1851 in Hammersmith, Middlesex, England.{{cite web |last=Frost |first=Tony |title=Arthur Morton Ollivier |url= http://www.ajlassociates.biz/getperson.php?personID=I11868&tree=frost |publisher=Frost Family |accessdate=16 April 2013}} He was the eighth son of John and Elizabeth Ollivier (née Morton).{{cite web |last=Frost |first=Tony |title=John Ollivier |url= http://www.ajlassociates.biz/getperson.php?personID=I11865&tree=frost |publisher=Frost Family |accessdate=16 April 2013}}{{cite web |last=Greenaway |first=Richard L. N. |title=Woolston / Heathcote Cemetery Tour |url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Cemeteries/Woolston/HeathcoteCemetery.pdf |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries|accessdate=16 April 2013 |pages=21–22 |date=June 2007}} The family with 10 children came to New Zealand on the John Taylor; the ship left London on 10 July 1853 and arrived in Lyttelton on 18 October.{{cite news |title=Shipping News |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=LT18531022.2.6 |accessdate=16 April 2013 |newspaper=Lyttelton Times|date=22 October 1853 |volume =III, Issue 146 |page=6}}{{cite web|last=Bastin |first=Kay |title=John Taylor |url= http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/JohnTaylor.htm |publisher=Rootsweb|accessdate=16 April 2013}} He received his education at Christ's College from 1862 to 1865; he was pupil number 179.{{cite book |title=The School List of Christ's College Grammar School: From 1852 to 1877 |year=1877 |publisher=Christ's College Grammar School |location=Christchurch |page=23}}
Sport
=Cricket=
Ollivier was a right-hand batsman.{{cite web |title=Arthur Ollivier |url= http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/22/22610/22610.html |publisher=Cricket Archive |accessdate=16 April 2013}} In February 1867, he became a representative cricketer at age 15, when he played for Canterbury against Otago at Hagley Oval; the first cricket game ever that was played on that ground.{{cite news| title=Interprovincial Cricket Match| url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18670208.2.13| accessdate=16 April 2013| newspaper=The Press| date=8 February 1867 |volume =XI, Issue 1328 | page=2}}{{cite news |title=Interprovincial Cricket Match |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP18670209.2.11 |accessdate=16 April 2013 |newspaper=The Press |date=9 February 1867 |volume =XI, Issue 1329 |page=2}} He was also playing when Canterbury first met Auckland in 1873; the year that the Auckland team was founded.
He played against England in February 1877,{{cite web |title=Canterbury v James Lillywhite's XI |url= http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/131/131956.html |publisher=Cricket Archive |accessdate=16 April 2013}} and against Australia in January 1878.{{cite web |title=Canterbury v Australians |url= http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/130/130930.html |publisher=Cricket Archive |accessdate=16 April 2013}}
Injury forced Ollivier to retire from the game in 1883. He became a trainer, administrator and selector of players. In 1882, Edward Cephas John Stevens and Ollivier initiated the purchase of a parcel of land which became Lancaster Park; this was to overcome the problem of spectators not paying a fee at Hagley Oval.{{DNZB |Miller |Graham M. |1S23 |Stevens, Edward Cephas John |16 April 2013}} In 1893, he selected the New Zealand team for the match against New South Wales.
=Mountaineering=
File:Mueller Hut and the summit of Mount Ollivier.jpg
Ollivier was known for his mountaineering exploits and Mount Ollivier is named for him.
=Other sports=
Ollivier was a noted sports person in rugby and athletics, especially sprinting.{{cite news |title=Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AG18971021.2.25.1 |accessdate=16 April 2013 |newspaper=Ashburton Guardian |date=21 October 1897 |volume =XVIII, Issue 4326 |page=3}} He was a successful chess player, was a founding member of the Canterbury Chess Club in 1877, and was dominion champion in 1888/89.{{cite web |last=Newick |first=Conrad Brice |title=Championship Roll |url= http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/chess/page-2 |publisher=An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand |accessdate=16 April 2013 |date=23 April 2009 |origyear=1966}}{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Canterbury Provincial District |year=1903 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d22-d4.html |publisher=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |accessdate= 31 March 2013 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Sports, Games, And Pastimes |page =216}}
Professional career
Ollivier was an accountant by profession. His first employment was with D. Macpherson and Co. (which became Matheson's Agency). His next position was with J. T. Ford and Co.{{cite news| title=Obituary |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18971021.2.34 |accessdate=16 April 2013 |newspaper=The Press |date=21 October 1897 |volume =LIV, Issue 9868 |page=6}} He was in partnership with Trevor Grierson before becoming self-employed.{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Canterbury Provincial District |year=1903 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d31-d15.html |publisher=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |accessdate= 31 March 2013 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Duncan, Ronald O. |page= 278}}
Community involvement
Ollivier was a member of many organisations, and he was often on the committee. He was president of the Old Boys' Association of Christ's College from 1895 until his death. He was deeply involved with the administration of cricket.{{cite book |last=Ryan |first=Greg |title=The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832–1914 |year=2012 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135754822}}
Family, death and commemoration
Ollivier married Agnes Thomson (born ca 1849), a daughter of the politician William Thomson, on 20 September 1876 at St Mark's Church in Opawa. They had three children:{{cite web |title=Florence Agnes May THOMSON |url=http://users.iconz.co.nz/kimo/family_tree/d0001/g0000093.htm#I95 |publisher=Iconz |accessdate=16 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926223202/http://users.iconz.co.nz/kimo/family_tree/d0001/g0000093.htm#I95 |archive-date=26 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}
- Cecil Claude Morton Ollivier (2 July 1878 – 27 July 1935)
- Keith Morton Ollivier (2 August 1880 – 12 September 1951)
- Muriel Morton Ollivier (19 April 1883 – 20 June 1971){{cite web |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl?start=1971&end=1971&sq=2&eq=2&type=Deaths&vol=8a&pgno=2673&db=bmd_1576491083&jsexec=1&mono=0&v=MTU3Nzk5NjU0Njo0ZDFkZDA0YjU3NzNiMjdkYThkMWZhOTZhYWRiOTNlYWM1OTk5MTMz&searchdef=surname%3Dollivier%26eq%3D4%26sq%3D1%26db%3Dbmd_1576491083%26type%3DDeaths%26end%3D1990%26start%3D1890%26given%3Dmuriel&action=Find |title=Deaths Jun 1971 |website=FreeBMD |accessdate=3 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=UKProbateCal&h=73448424 |title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995 |year=2010 |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations |accessdate=3 January 2020 |url-access=subscription}}
Ollivier was unwell for several months before his death. He went to Castle Hill in the high country for a change of air, but returned even more ill.{{cite news |title=Obituary |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18971021.2.54 |accessdate=16 April 2013 |newspaper=The Star |issue=6007 |date=21 October 1897 |page=3}} He died at the early age of 46 on 21 October 1897 at home in the Christchurch suburb of Opawa. He was buried at Woolston Cemetery.{{cite news |title=Death |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18971021.2.2.1 |accessdate=16 April 2013 |newspaper=The Press |date=21 October 1897 |volume =LIV, Issue 9868 |page=1}} It was Frederick Wilding's proposal that resulted in the Canterbury Cricket Association erecting the gravestone for Ollivier; the inscription reads "Erected by the Cricketers of New Zealand".{{cite news |title=Canterbury Cricket Association |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18971023.2.84 |accessdate=16 April 2013 |newspaper=The Press |volume=LIV |issue=9865 |date=23 October 1897 |page=10}} He was buried on a Saturday (23 October), and out of respect to him, all cricket matches in Canterbury got cancelled on that day.
Mount Ollivier near Aoraki / Mount Cook is named after Arthur Ollivier.{{cite news |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10487471 |title=Renaming peak for Sir Ed meets resistance |last=Booker |first=Jarrod |date=18 January 2008 |publisher=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=25 April 2009}} In 1939, the {{convert|1933|m|ft|abbr=on}} peak was Edmund Hillary's first major climb.{{cite web |title=The early years - Ed Hillary |url= http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/edmund-hillary/early-years| publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage| accessdate=16 April 2013| date=20 December 2012}} After Hillary's death in 2008, there was a proposal to rename the peak Mount Hillary as a memorial, a suggestion opposed by Arthur Ollivier's family.
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