Oliver Deneys Schreiner

Oliver Deneys Schreiner (1890 - 1980) was the younger son of Will and Fan Schreiner. Like his father, Oliver was a brilliant legal scholar and studied at Cambridge; his studies were interrupted by the First World War, in which he fought and was injured at the Somme. After the war he returned to Cambridge where he was elected a Fellow of his College. He married Edna Findcham in 1919; a daughter, Jean, was born in 1920. Later that year they returned in South Africa, with Olive Schreiner travelling on the same ship with them. In Cape Town, he was admitted to the Bar and practiced as a lawyer. Oliver Schreiner continued the liberal political legacy of his father and aunt. Regarding the abolition of the Cape franchise, Prime Minister Strydom finally achieved this by packing the Appeal Court, “enlarged for the purpose, with aquiesant judges where there was only one dissident, Oliver Schreiner, son of the Cape Prime Minister who had fought unsuccessfully for black rights” (Welsh 1998: 444).

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