OLLIER

Charles . b. Bath, Somersets hire 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., letterpre 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).