Oldys, William, bibliographer, was a man of dissolute life, the illegitimate son of a chancellor of Lincoln; he was librarian to the Earl of Oxford for 10 years, and afterwards received the appointment of Norroy king-of-arms; besides many bibliographical and literary articles, he wrote a “Life of Raleigh” and “The Harleian Miscellany” (1696-1761).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Oldham * Oléron