| Benjamin Oliveira | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | FRS, FSA |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Pontefract |
| Term Start: | 8 July 1852 |
| Term End: | 28 March 1857 |
| Alongside: | Richard Monckton Milnes |
| Predecessor: | Richard Monckton Milnes Beilby Lawley |
| Successor: | Richard Monckton Milnes William Wood |
| Birth Date: | 1806 |
| Death Place: | London |
| Residence: | Upper Hyde Park Street, London |
| Nationality: | British |
| Party: | Whig |
| Father: | Dominick Oliveira |
Benjamin Oliveira FRS FSA (1806 – 28 September 1865) of Hyde Park Street, London was a British Whig politician.[1]
He was the son of Dominick Oliveira, a London merchant of Portuguese descent and spent much of his early life in Portugal. He then moved, by now well-to-do, to live in Hyde Park Street, London, where he took an interest in the development of railways, wrote a book about his travels and joined the Whig political party.[2]
Oliveira was first elected Whig MP for Pontefract in 1852, but was defeated at the next election in 1857.[3]
He was a member of the council of the Society of Arts and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.[4]
He died at his London home in 1865.