Background
The son of Charles Ollier, he knew Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Benjamin Haydon as a child.
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. Ollier died at his house in Oakley Street, Chelsea, London on 19 April 1886.
Ollier married a Mission Gattie, who survived him, but left no issue.