Charles Silver Oliver

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Charles Silver Oliver (c.1765–1770 – 10 October 1817) was an Irish landowner and politician. He was the son of Silver Oliver, who was a Member of Parliament for Kilmallock. On 3 June 1805 he married Maria Elizabeth Morris, daughter of Abraham Morris.

Oliver held several local and national roles. He served as Sheriff of County Limerick in 1791, and as Sovereign (the head of the town government) of Kilmallock from 1796 to 1800. He was MP for Kilmallock from 1798 until 15 May 1799, when he became Escheator of Munster. With the help of Lord Clare, he represented County Limerick in the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1802 to 1806, though he did not attend frequently.

In family accounts about the death of the Irish patriot Staker Wallace in 1798 at Kilfinnane, Oliver is portrayed as the villain. Later research by Mannix Joyce shows that there were disagreements within the Protestant Ascendancy about how harshly Oliver had treated Wallace. Wallace was publicly flogged and later executed in Kilfinnane, after being charged with raising money to assassinate Charles Silver Oliver.