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Benjamin Oliveira
FRS, FSA
Member of Parliament
for Pontefract
In office
8 July 1852 – 28 March 1857
Preceded by Richard Monckton Milnes
Beilby Lawley
Succeeded by Richard Monckton Milnes
William Wood
Personal details
Born 1806
Died (aged 59)
London
Nationality British
Political party Whig
Residences Upper Hyde Park Street, London

Benjamin Oliveira FRS FSA (1806 – 28 September 1865) of Hyde Park Street, London was a British Whig politician.

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.

Oliveira was first elected Whig MP for Pontefract in 1852, but was defeated at the next election in 1857.

He was a member of the council of the Society of Arts and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.

He died at his London home in 1865.

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