Oliver Stonor (born Frederick Field Stoner, and also using the pseudonym (E.) Morchard Bishop, FRSL) (3 July 1903 – 12 April 1987) was an English novelist, reviewer, translator, and man of letters.
His father and grandfather were quantity surveyors, and he was trained in this profession at the offices of the family firm in Broad Street, City of London.
As soon as he was 21, he took up writing as a career in the Literary London of the 1920s, though he later put his surveying to good use in wartime.
In 1926, he visited the home of the writer Arthur Machen, who was living at Melina Place.
[1] His last will and testament can be traced through the UK Indexes of Wills and Probate, and appears in the following form: "STONER, Frederick Field, otherwise Oliver or BISHOP, Morchard of Velthams Morebath Tiverton Devon died 12 April 1987 Probate London 28 August 1987 £399411".