Author:Samuel Pasfield Oliver

Samuel Pasfield Oliver
(1838–1907)

Works

• Pendennis and St. Mawes: An Historical Sketch of Two Cornish Castles (1875) [1]
• Off duty. Rambles of a gunner. Through Nicaragua, January to June, 1867 (1879) [2]
• On and off duty, leaves from an officer's note-book (1881) [3]
• The True Story of the French Dispute in Madagascar (1885) [4]

As editor

• Madagascar; or, Robert Drury's journal during fifteen years' captivity on that island. (1890) [5]
• The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope. (1891) v.1 v.2
• The Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus, Count de Benyowsky (1898) [6]
• The Voyages made by the Sieur Dubois (1897)

Contributions to the DNB

• Hastie, James
• Lacroix, Alphonse François
• Le Brun, John
• Leguat, François
• Lyall, Robert
• MacGregor, Charles Metcalfe
• Magellan, Jean Hyacinthe de
• Mullens, Joseph
• Nicholson, William (1753-1815)
• Dillon, Peter (DNB01)

Works about Oliver

• "Death: Samuel Pasfield Oliver," in The Times (1907)
• "Oliver, Samuel Pasfield," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.