W. H. Oliver | |
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Born | William Hosking Oliver 14 May 1925 Feilding, New Zealand |
Died | 16 September 2015 Wellington, New Zealand | (aged 90)
Other names | Bill Oliver |
Occupation(s) | Historian, poet, biographer |
Spouse | Dorothy Nielsen |
Children | 6 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Organizations and ideas behind the efforts to achieve a general union of the working classes in the early 1830's (1954) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | University of Canterbury Victoria University of Wellington Massey University |
Doctoral students | Margaret Tennant[1] |
William Hosking Oliver CBE (14 May 1925 – 16 September 2015), commonly known as W. H. Oliver but also known as Bill Oliver, was an eminent New Zealand historian and a poet. From 1983, Oliver led the development of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.