FAMOUS TWIN DIES AT 90

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14254, 31 December 1946, Page 5

FAMOUS TWIN DIES AT 90

ONLY ONCE PARTED

DID NOT DESERT LONDON

A little piece of London passed with the last of the City’s famous bachelor twins. William Oliver, head cf the Fleetstreet firm of Oliver Brothers, master printers, died at his flat in Charing Cross-road in his 90th year, proud in the fact that he had not deserted London.

Twice lie was bombed out in the City, and only on the third occasion did he leave it —for the flat in Charing. Cross-road, a mile away, where he died, *

His twin brother John died 12 years ago, when they lived together in the City in New Street-hill. They had been born in the shadow of St. Paul’s.

So much alike were the twins When they strolled together through the City that even their friends could scarcely tell which was William and which was John.

Once only were they parted and then it was for three long days. This parting caused the twins so much unhappiness that they vowed “never to part again.”

And they kept their promise until John died in their home above the printing works where their mother had passed away seven years earlier at the age of 102. Almost'to the end of her life she ruled them with a rod of iron, and after she had gene they decided to. live on together with only their pug dog and a parrot as companions. Polly, the parrot, alone, survives. She was with her master when he died.