Alfred Ollivant

Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927) was an English novelist, known for his novel Owd Bob. Ollivant also published about a dozen other novels ranging from small-scale cautionary tales to grand historical stories.

Biography Alfred Ollivant was born in Nuthurst, West Sussex, in 1874 and became a writer after a horse-riding injury ended his brief military career.

Owd Bob, his first novel, was published in 1898. Set in rural Cumbria, in northern England, the novel concerns a suspected sheep-killing collie, Bob. Even though most of the book's dialogue is written in the Cumbrian dialect, it became popular in the United States. Ollivant published a sequel, Danny, in 1902.

He was also a short-story contributor to the magazines The Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Evening Transcript.

Death Alfred Ollivant died in London on 19 January 1927.