Charles Nicholson Jewel Oliver

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Charles Nicholson Jewel Oliver {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|CMG}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139199161 |title=Birthday Honours |newspaper=The Australasian |volume=LXXIX |issue=2067 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=11 November 1905 |accessdate=3 March 2017 |page=38 |via=National Library of Australia}} (24 April 1848 – 14 June 1920) was a first-class cricketer and public servant in Australia.

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Born in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land, Oliver entered the New South Wales Civil Service, and was appointed Under-Secretary for Lands in November 1880. He then became one of the Commissioners of Railways under the new non-political system of control.{{cite Australasia|Oliver, Charles N. J.}}

In 1906 the Legislative council passed the Railway Commissioners Appointment Act, with the provision that it should not take effect until a new set of commissioners had been selected. So Oliver retired in April 1907 along with David Kirkcaldie and William Meeke Fehon, and the new Chief commissioner, Tom Richard Johnson, appointed. Kirkcaldie was appointed assistant commissioner for railways and Harry Richardson assistant commissioner for tramways.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71591153 |title=New Chief Railway Commissioner of New South Wales. |newspaper=Australian Town and Country Journal |volume=LXXIV |issue=1940 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 April 1907 |access-date=25 March 2024 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Oliver played three games of cricket for New South Wales between 1865 and 1873.

{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7010.html |title=Charles Oliver |publisher=ESPN cricinfo |access-date=7 April 2013}} He was a member of the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and chairman from 1898.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228437325 |title=Sydney Cricket Ground |newspaper=The Australian Star |issue=3211 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=18 May 1898 |access-date=25 March 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He died in 1920.{{cite news |date=19 June 1920 |title=Obituary |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142283843 |accessdate=22 March 2024 |newspaper=The Daily Advertiser |location=New South Wales, Australia |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}