Charles Nicholson Jewel Oliver CMG[1] (24 April 1848 – 14 June 1920) was a first-class cricketer and public servant in Australia.[2]

Born in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land,[2] Oliver entered the New South Wales Civil Service, and was appointed Under-Secretary for Lands in November 1880. He then became one of the Commissioners of Railways under the new non-political system of control.[3]

Oliver played three games of cricket for New South Wales between 1865 and 1873.[4]

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  1. ↑ "BIRTHDAY HONOURS". The Australasian. Vol. LXXIX, no. 2067. Victoria, Australia. 11 November 1905. p. 38. Retrieved 3 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. 1 2 Walker, J. D. "Oliver, Charles Nicholson Jewel (1848–1920)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Mennell, Philip (1892). "Oliver, Charles N. J." . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
  4. ↑ "Charles Oliver". ESPN cricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2013.



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