{{Short description|English journalist and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} '''Edmund Ollier''' (1827–1886) was an English journalist and author.

==Life== The son of Charles Ollier, he knew Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Benjamin Haydon as a child. He was privately educated and began to write. After some years he was a journalist working for ''The Athenæum'', ''The Daily News'', ''Household Words'', and ''All the Year Round''.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ollier, Edmund|volume=42}}</ref>

Ollier died at his house in Oakley Street, Chelsea, London on 19 April 1886.<ref name="DNB"/>

==Works== thumb|''March past of the "Garibaldi Guard" before President Lincoln'', illustration from ''Cassell's Illustrated History of the United States'' by Edmund Ollier In 1867 Ollier republished verses which had originally appeared in periodicals as ''Poems from the Greek Mythology, and Miscellaneous Poems''. In the same year he contributed an edition of the first series of the ''Essays of Elia'', with a memoir of the author Charles Lamb, to ''Hotten's Worldwide Library''; and in 1869 published an edition of Leigh Hunt's ''Tale for the Chimney Corner''.<ref name="DNB"/>

For the publishing firm of Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, Ollier wrote:<ref name="DNB"/>

* a memoir of Gustave Doré for the ''Doré Gallery'', 2 vols. 1870; * ''Cassell's Illustrated History of the War between France and Germany'', 2 vols. 1871–2; * ''Our British Portrait-Painters from Sir Peter Lely to J. Sant'', 1874; * ''Cassell's Illustrated History of the United States'', 3 vols. 1874–7; * ''Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War'', 2 vols. 1877–1879; * ''A Popular History of Sacred Art'', 1882; * ''Cassell's Illustrated Universal History'', 4 vols. 1882–5.

At the time of his death he was working on the ''Life and Times of Queen Victoria''. The first eleven chapters were by Ollier, and the remainder of the work by Robert Wilson.<ref name="DNB"/>

==Family== Ollier married a Miss Gattie, who survived him, but left no issue.<ref name="DNB"/>

==External links== *[https://archive.org/search.php?query=edmund%20ollier Partial list of works by Edmund Ollier held at the Internet Archive] ==Notes== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Commonscatinline}} '''Attribution'''<!--Please do not reformat, for the sake of those using screen-readers--> {{DNB|wstitle=Ollier, Edmund|volume=42}}

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