death_date death_place birth_place profession work_institutions birth_date image article_title education name
17 march 1764 bath , somerset , england ludgvan , cornwall , england medicine royal mineral water hospital , royal society 14 august 1695 4 august drwilliamoliverdetail.jpg william oliver -lrb- physician -rrb-
 pembroke college , cambridge , leiden university william oliver
william oliver -lrb- physician -rrb-

william oliver -lrb- -- 17 march 1764 -rrb- was an english physician and philanthropist , and inventor of the bath oliver .
he was born at ludgvan , cornwall , and baptised on 27 august 1695 , described as the son of john oliver the owner of the trevarno estate .
his family , originally seated at trevarnoe in sithney , resided afterwards in ludgvan , and the estate of treneere in madron , which belonged to him , was sold in 1768 after his death .
when he decided to erect a monument in sithney churchyard to the memory of his parents , alexander pope wrote the epitaph and drew the design of the pillar .
he was admitted a pensioner of pembroke college , cambridge on 17 september 1714 , graduated m.b. in 1720 , and m.d. in 1725 , and to complete his medical training , entered at leiden university on 15 november 1720 .
on 8 july 1756 he was incorporated at oxford , and he was elected a fellow of the royal society on 22 january 1729 -- 30 .
