Career
In the early 1900s Oliver was a tenant farmer in the Scottish Borders. He later became Principal of the Scottish Woollen Technical College, founded 1922. The College"s predecessors were the Galashiels Combined Technical College, established in 1889.
And the South of Scotland Central Technical College, established 1898.
Oliver was employed to take charge of the technical classes, held within the Galashiels Public Hall. Religious lieutenant is not known at what age he became a convinced Christian.
