William Oliver was a physician and qualified as a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1692. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1704 and worked at the Royal Hospital at Greenwich from 1709 to 1714. Some of his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions.
Reference:
W. P. Courtney, ‘Oliver, William (bap. 1658, d. 1716)’, rev. S. Glaser, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20735 [accessed 17 July 2013]).
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