Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838–1907)

Army officer, geographer, antiquary, and writer. Attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; received a commission in the Royal Artillary, 1859. Served in China and Mauritius, and travelled to Madagascar. Returned to England in 1865. Joined an expedition to Nicaragua in 1867. While serving in the army, investigated and published on archaeological sites in France, Asia Minor, Greece, and Sardinia. Resigned his commission in 1878, and continued to write. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1866. Fellow of the Ethnological Society, 1869.