George Harold Oliver QC (24 November 1888 – 22 September 1984) was a British engineer, barrister and politician who was for a longtime Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilkeston and served briefly as a junior government minister.
[4] Shortly after he persuaded the Home Secretary to halt the planned hanging of one of his constituents who had been convicted of murder.
He acted for the union at an inquest into the poisoning deaths of three workers at the British Celanese artificial silk factory at Spondon in 1934.
[14] Oliver was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office in the Attlee government in August 1945.
Boundary changes gave him a very safe seat and in the 1951 general election his majority of 30,398 was the fourth largest in the country.
[16] In February 1952 he was chosen to be one of the members of the House of Commons to call on the Queen Mother to extend Parliament's condolences on the death of King George VI.