James Kenneth Murray Oliver OBE (1 February 1914 – 17 June 1999) was a Scottish racehorse trainer, breeder and jockey.
[1] After school he joined the family livestock auctioneering business of Andrew Oliver & Son in Hawick, the oldest such firm in the UK having been founded in 1817.
[1] During World War Two, Oliver served with the Yorkshire Hussars in North Africa and Sicily.
[1] He was invalided back to the Scottish Borders and decided the family firm should set up an estate agency.
[2] Oliver was appointed an OBE in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to farming and the local community.