Richard Philip Oliver

[1] His father sat in the Irish House of Commons for County Limerick.

[4] He invested in the agricultural interests at Parlington, developing mineral assets on the estate, particularly coal mining.

[2] On 3 May 1804, he was married by special licence to Mary Turner (1782–1819) at Parlington Hall.

Mary was the daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham and step-daughter of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet, upon whose death Richard and Mary inherited a life interest in the estates following the death of Mary's step brother and Gascoigne heir Tom in a hunting accident in October 1809.

[2] Together, they were the parents of four children:[2] Mary died in 1819, aged 36, and was buried at Barwick in Elmet.