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HOLFORD, SAMUEL, third son of Sir Richard Holford, Kt, Master in Chancery, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and his third wife Susanna, dau. of Samuel Trotman, Bucknell, Oxfordshire; b.; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1712, but went to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 8 Jul 1712; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jun 1712, called to bar 28 Apr 1719.

HOLGATE, THOMAS, son of George Holgate, London, banker, and Sarah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate, London 16 Jul 1738 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) May 1749; KS 1752; still at school 1754.

HOLLAND (alias ROBERTS), HUGH, son of Robert Holland, Denbigh, Denbighshire, and --- Pain, Denbigh; b.; adm.; QS; his contribution to the congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth, preserved in the Chapter Library, is signed “Hugo Roberts”; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1589, adm. scholar 1590; BA 1593/4; MA 1597; became a Roman Catholic; travelled abroad; imprisoned at Constantinople by Sir Robert Glover, the English Ambassador there, for abuse of Queen Elizabeth; resided in Oxford for some years, lodging in Balliol Coll.; patronised by Duke of Buckingham; a member, Mermaid Club; a sonnet of his was prefixed to the first folio edition of Shakespeare; author, A Cypres Garland for the Sacred Forehead of our late Soveraigne King James, 1625, and other verses; m. Ursula, widow of Robert Woodard, Burnham, Bucks.; buried near door of St. Bennet’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey 23 Jul 1633. DNB.

HOLLAND, CHRISTOPHER, son of James Holland, St. Gregory’s parish, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1720; Min. Can. 1721; KS 1722; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1726, matr. 13 Jun 1726, Westminster Student 5 Apr 1729 – void 28 Jun 1739, expiry year of grace as V. Chippenham from 10 May 1738; BA 1730; MA 1733; Vicar of Chippenham, Wiltshire, from 1738; m. 9 May 1738 Elizabeth Trevanion; d. 8 May 1760.

HOLLAND, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments).

HOLLEY, GEORGE HUNT, third son of James Hunt Holley, Okehampton, Devon, and Horatia, third dau. of Vice-Adm. William Windham (previously Lukin), Felbrigg, Norfolk; b. 5 Jun 1841; adm. Jun 1854 (James'); QS Jun 1856; left 1857; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1858; Ensign, 12 Jun 1858; 30th Bengal Light Infantry 24 Aug 1858; 1st Bengal European Fusiliers 18 Mar 1859; Lieut., 101st Foot 10 Oct 1860; Capt., 15 Sep 1869; ret. as Hon. Maj., 17 Apr 1880; Hon. Lieut. -Col., 1 Jul 1881; served in Oudh campaign 1858; m. 7 May 1874 Annie Mary, dau. of B. Purcell, Kilrush [check county]; d. 29 Apr 1882.

HOLME, HENRY JAMES, eldest son of Rev. Henry Torre, Rector of Ryse, Yorks., and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Cox DD, Oxford; b. 11 Sep 1793; adm.; KS 1808; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1812, adm. pens. 9 May 1812, scholar 1813, matr. 1813; BA 1816; ordained deacon 3 Aug 1817, priest 21 Jun 1818 (both York); assumed name and arms of Holme in lieu of Torre 31 Jan 1834, on succeeding to the estates of his uncle Rev. Nicholas Holme (formerly Torre); of Paull Holme, Hedon, Yorks.; m. 20 Nov 1817 Margaret, only dau. of George Mangles (qv); d. 28 Dec 1850.

Holmes, Sir Stephen Lewis, son of Basil Holmes, of Ealing, by Isabella Matilda, daughter of John Hall Gladstone, F.R.S., of Bayswater; b. July 5, 1896; adm. as K.S. Sept. 23, 1909; Capt. of the School 1913; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1915, matric. Lent 1919; B.A. 1922; M.A. 1930; Asst. Principal in the Colonial Office Feb. 1921; Principal, Dominions Office 1928; Imperial Defence College 1934; Senior Secretary, Office of United Kingdom High Commissioner in Canada, 1936-9; Asst. Secretary, Dominions Office 1939; Dominions Office Representative, Washington, 1943-4; Deputy High Commissioner, Canada 1944-6; Under Secretary, Board of Trade 1946, and Second Secretary 1947-51; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office, 1951; High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Australia 1952-6; C.M.G. Jan 1, 1942; K.C.M.G. Jan. 1, 1950; 2nd Lieut. R. G. A. July 1915; served in France and Belgium 1916-9; acting Capt. March 11, 1918; acting Major when demob.; mentioned in despatches L. G. Nov. 8, 1918, and March 16, 1919; M.C. Sept. 16, 1918; m. Jan. 21, 1922, Noreen Charlotte, only daughter of Ernest Frederick Crosbie Trench, C.B.E., of Savernake Forest, Wilts.; d. 1980.

HOLMES, WALTER; b.; adm.; KS in 1609; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1612, adm. scholar 1613; BA 1616/7; MA 1622; ordained priest (London) 23 Dec 1621; aged 25; schoolmaster, St. Olave’s, Silver Street, London; Vicar of Frindsbury, Kent 1620-6; Vicar of Southchurch, Essex 1626- sequestered 1644; in 1646 he was said to be “distempered by lunacy for twenty years and of late wholly disabled to serve a cure”; m. Mildmay ---. [Perhaps bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 28 Oct 1595, son of John Holmes].

Holroyd, Michael, son of Sir Charles Holroyd, of Weybridge, Surrey, Director of the National Gallery, by Fanny Fetherstonhaugh, daughter of the Hon. John Alexander Macpherson, of Melbourne, Australia, sometime Premier of Victoria; b. Sept. 21, 1892; adm. as K.S. Sept. 27, 1906; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1911, matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. and M.A. 1919; Fellow of Brasenose Coll. and Lecturer 1919; Tutor 1920; Arnold Historical Prize Essay 1923; F. S. A. 1924; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Royal Hampshire Regt. Aug. 15, 1914; served on the western front Dec. 1914 - May 1915; wounded May 13, 1915; employed in the War Office Jan. 1916 till the summer of 1919; Capt. April 6, 1916; Capt. R. O., Hampshire Regt.; served with the Hampshire Regt. and at the War Office in Great War II; m. 1932, Winifred Beatrice Colwill; d. Oct. 12, 1953.