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Benjamin Oliveira FRS FSA (1806 – 28 September 1865)[1] of Hyde Park Street, London was a British Whig politician.[2]
He was the son of Dominick Oliveira, a London merchant of Portuguese descent and spent much of his early life in Portugal. He then moved, by now well-to-do, to live in Hyde Park Street, London, where he took an interest in the development of railways, wrote a book about his travels and joined the Whig political party.[3]
Oliveira was first elected Whig MP for Pontefract in 1852, but was defeated at the next election in 1857.[4]
He was a member of the council of the Society of Arts and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.[5]
He died at his London home in 1865.