de Richelieu, Paris.
OLLIER, CHARLES. _b._ Bath, Somersetshire 1788; clerk in Coutt’s
bank, Strand, London 1802; publisher with his brother James
Ollier at 3 Welbeck st. and then in Vere st. Bond st. 1816–22;
a friend of Leigh Hunt; published Leigh Hunt’s Foliage 1818,
Hero and Leander 1819, and The story of Rimini, 2 ed. 1819; also
Keats’s Poems 1817, and Shelley’s The revolt of Islam 1817,
the Collected works of Charles Lamb 1818, and several of Barry
Cornwall’s volumes of Poems; literary adviser to Henry Colburn
and then to Richard Bentley; a lecturer on celebrated writers;
a publisher in Southampton st. Strand, London 1845–9; author
of Altham and his wife, a domestic tale 1818; Inesilla, or the
tempter, a romance, with other tales 1824; Ferrers, a romance, 3
vols. 1842; Fallacy of ghosts, dreams, and omens, with stories
of witchcraft, life-in-death, and monomania 1848; Original views
of London 1842, and Original views of Oxford 1843, 2 vols.,
letterpress by C. Ollier. _d._ 5 Caroline place, Fulham road,
London 5 June 1859. _Correspondence of Leigh Hunt i_ 308–11,
_ii_ 61 _etc._ (1862); _Spectator 18 June 1859 p._ 640; _Lady
Shelley’s Shelley memorials_ (1875) _ix_ 80 _etc._; _Temple Bar
lviii_ 243–52 (1880); _St. James’s Mag. xxxv_ 387–413 (1875).
OLLIER, EDMUND (son of the preceding). _b._ near London 26
Nov. 1826; wrote for Ainsworth’s magazine, the Athenæum, All
the year round 1850–70, and Household Words 1850–9; edited
the first series of The essays of Elia for Hotten’s Worldwide
library 1867; edited Leigh Hunt’s Tale for the chimney corner
1869; on staff of the Daily News 1853–77; sub-editor of The
Leader 1855–8; editor of The Atlas 1859–60; literary editor of
London review 1874–6; worked for the firm of Cassell, Petter,
and Galpin, publishers; granted cross of the Italian order of
S.S. Maurice and Lazarus 1867; author of Poems from the Greek
mythology 1867; The Doré gallery 1870; Cassell’s History of the
war between France and Germany, 2 vols. 1871–2, 3 ed. 1887–9;
Cassell’s History of the United States, 3 vols. 1874–7; Our
British portrait painters, from sir P. Lely to J. Sant 1874;
Cassell’s Illustrated history of the Russo-Turkish war, 2
vols. 1877–9, 3 ed. 1889–91; Cassell’s Illustrated universal
history, 4 vols. 1882–5, 2 ed. 1892; The life and times of queen
Victoria by R. Wilson 1887, the first eleven chapters were by
E. Ollier. _d._ 154 Oakley st. King’s road, Chelsea 19 April