Robert Oliver (priest)

{{Short description|English priest (1710-1784)}}

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{{Portal|Christianity}}Robert Oliver (15 June 1710{{snd}}15 November 1784) was Archdeacon of the East Riding"The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 75 p377 from 1759 until his death.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol4/pp16-18 British History On-line]

He was educated at Merton College, Oxford.{{alox2|title=Oliver, Robert (1)}} On his appointment as Archdeacon 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 {{ISBN|9780199583591}}