One of the objectors was the property-owner, Dr Gogarty, the father of the Irish poet, Oliver St. John Gogarty.

* Oliver St John

* 1629 – St. Oliver Plunkett, Irish Catholic martyr ( d. 1681 )

Having been granted a charter to govern the island by the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell in 1657, the following year the Company decided to fortify and colonise St Helena with planters.

* October – An English diplomatic team headed by Oliver St John goes to The Hague to negotiate an alliance between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic.

* December 31 – Oliver St John, English statesman and judge ( b. c. 1598 )

* Oliver Bond ( died in 1796 ) – A possible St. Johnston native who was a Dublin-based member of the United Irishmen.

In 1921 the preserved severed head of Saint Oliver Plunkett, who was executed in London in 1681, was put on display in St. Peter's Church, where it remains today.

To their enormous embarrassment however on 7 March a large English delegation of 246 arrived at The Hague, headed by Oliver St John, to negotiate the conditions under which the Dutch Republic might unite itself with England, sent by Cromwell who had taken the earlier suggestions quite too seriously.

The original door from a prison cell used to house St. Oliver Plunkett in 1681 is on display at St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, Ireland.

* Endymion, the first character introduced in Oliver St John Gogarty's As I Was Going Down Sackville Street

* Thomas Manton ( 1620-1677 ), appointed minister of St Mary's Church 1644 / 5 ; a forthright defender of Reformed principles and one of Oliver Cromwell's chaplains

The dissolution of the Monarchy and the establishment of the Puritan Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell had great effect on many Cathedrals and Churches, particularly felt in St David's.

In the centre of the bridge stood the chapel of St Anne ( dedicated in 1436 ): the dedication was attributed to the town chapel by Dr Oliver and it has since been adopted, displacing that to St Mary.

From 1616, Buckingham established a dominant influence in Irish affairs, beginning with the appointment of his client, Sir Oliver St John, as Lord Deputy, 1616 – 1622.

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Michael Brammann ( engineer ), Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( conductor ), Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner ( chorus masters ), Bernarda Fink, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Christine Schäfer, Markus Schäfer, Oliver Widmer, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Concentus Musicas Wien for Bach: St. Matthew Passion

* Oliver Bond, 1798 ( Bond, a native of St Johnston, County Donegal, was to die in the gaol ).

He also published A True Relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen ( 1671 ), an account of Holles's intercession on their behalf and of his dispute with Lord Chief Justice Keeling ; and he left Memoirs, written in exile in 1649, and dedicated " to the unparalleled Couple, Mr Oliver St John ... and Mr Oliver Cromwell ..." published in 1699 and reprinted in Baron Maseres's Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars, I.

It was while he was teaching at the Central School of Art ( later Central St Martins College ) that Oliver Postgate came looking for, as Firmin puts it: "… someone to illustrate a television story – someone who was hard up and would do a lot of drawing for very little money ".

In the west window of St John's Chapel, for instance, the medieval glass barely survived the destruction ( said to have been caused by Oliver Cromwell's men ).

The case against the latter ( Rex v. Hampden, 3 State Trials, 825 ) was heard before all the judges in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, Hampden being defended by Oliver St John.

* July-Richard James lends Oliver St John a manuscript tract on the bridling of parliaments which was written in 1612 by Sir Robert Dudley, titular duke of Northumberland.

He arrived on crutches at the Newspaper Club with one of his great pals, Oliver Herford, artist, author, and foe of stupidity.

Oliver, in his summary of the habits of the snakes of the United States, could supply data on the maturing period for only three species in addition to the rattlers, which I shall consider separately.

Oliver has recently used the second-level approach with the largest snakes, and has come to these conclusions: the anaconda reaches a length of at least 37 feet, the reticulate python 33, the African rock python 25, the amethystine python at least 22, the Indian python 20, and the boa constrictor 18-1/2.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

Second grand prize of $5,000 went to Mrs. Clara L. Oliver for her Hawaiian coffee ring, a rich yeast bread with coconut filling and vanilla glaze.

Mrs. Oliver is mother of five children and wife of a machinist.

There was a tap at the door and Oliver entered with the word that Heiser wished to see the Captain.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

( See, for example, the character of Oliver Manders in Three Act Tragedy.

The detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

* Sacks, Oliver W. ( 1989 ).

Alcott served as a pallbearer along with Louis Agassiz, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.

* 1981 – Clare Oliver, Australian activist ( d. 2007 )

* Alexander the Glorious ( 1965 ) by Jane Oliver.

* 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( d. 1819 )

* 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer ( d. 1894 )

Oliver Roy writes that in the following period Massoud's " personal prestige and the efficiency of his military organisation persuaded many local commanders to come and learn from him.

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )