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GB-2014-WSA-09455 · Person · 1883-?

Holmes, John Noel Wendell, brother of Charles Herbert Holmes (q.v.); b. Dec. 20, 1883; adm. Jan. 21, 1897 (H); left July 1900; emigrated to the U.S.A.

GB-2014-WSA-09452 · Person · 1880-1950

Holmes, Charles Herbert, son of Charles Holmes, of Hampstead, by Florence, daughter of John Bassali, of Smisby Hall, Lincs; b. April 27, 1880; adm. Jan. 19, 1893 (H); left July 1896; for many years in business in Ottawa; m. Doris Balloch; d. Sept. 15, 1950.

GB-2014-WSA-09450 · Person · 1872-1926

Holme, Leonard Ralph, second son of the Rev. Robert Holme, Vicar of Crewkerne, Somerset, by Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Ralph Lyon, D.D., Head Master of Sherborne School and Vicar of Bishop's Caundle, Dorset; b. April 1, 1872; adm. from Crewkerne Grammar School Sept. 16, 1886 (H); left April 1887; readm. as Q.S. Sept. 22, 1887; left (with a Triplett gratuity) July 1891; Jesus Coll. Camb., matric. Oct. 21, 1891; scholar (History); Hulsean Prize 1895; B.A. 1894; M.A. (absens) 1899; went to Canada, where he was on the educational staff of Bishops' University, Lennoxville, and subsequently of McGill University, Montreal; city editor of the Montreal Gazette 1903; joined the staff of the New York Times 1906, assistant London correspondent from 1917; author of The Extinction of the Christian Churches in North Africa (1898); m. Aug. 21, 1907, Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Rayson; d. June 17, 1926.

GB-2014-WSA-09446 · Person · 1896-?

Holloway, John Gifford Everett, son of the Rev. John Everett Holloway, Vicar of St. Andrew Croydon, Surrey; b. March 13, 1896; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (H); left July 1914; Queen's Coll. Oxon. 1919; B.A. 1922; editor of The Decorator since 1928; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. Labour Corps July 15, 1917; m. 1933, Irene May, daughter of Thomas Tofts, solicitor, of Cuckfield, Sussex.

GB-2014-WSA-09443 · Person · 1899-?

Holloway, Edward Ferdinand Arthur, son of Edward Thomas Holloway, of Streatham, barrister-at-law; b. Jan. 9, 1899; adm. May 2, 1913 (H); left July 1914.

GB-2014-WSA-09439 · Person · 1872-1938

Hollocombe, John Christiano, eldest son of John Hollocombe, of South Kensington, by Henriette Louise, daughter of Frederico Klingelhoefer, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; b. Aug. 30, 1872; adm. Sept. 16, 1886 (H); left July 1891; secretary of the London and Brazilian Bank; m. Aug. 13, 1897, Edith Julia, daughter of John Gordon, of Tunbridge Wells; d. June 11, 1938.

GB-2014-WSA-09438 · Person · 1876-1905

Hollocombe, Edward, brother of John Christiano Hollocombe (q.v.); b. Aug. 2, 1876; adm. Jan. 15, 1891 (H); left Dee. 1893; d. Nov. 23, 1905.

Holliday, Graham, 1918-1991
GB-2014-WSA-09429 · Person · 1918-1991

Holliday, Graham, son of Herbert Horace Holliday, master builder, of Cheam, Surrey, and Annie Winifred, d. of Alexander Lees Waugh, insurance manager, of West Dulwich; b. 10 Apr. 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (H); left Apr. 1935; FRGS 1937; Roy. Tank Regt 1941, transf. RE Aug. 1941 (Capt.), despatches (Burma) Sept. 1946; dir. Holliday & Greenwood, building contrac­tors, 1948-68; pres. Nat. Fedn of Building Trade Employers 1973; m. 20 Sept. 1941 Margaret Helen, d. of William Halsey Becket, gas engineer, of Cheam; d. 7 May 1991.

GB-2014-WSA-09420 · Person · 1914-2001

Holland, Denys Arthur, son of Arthur William Holland, printer, of Blackheath, and Ethel Margaret, d. of George Frederick Harwood of Carshalton, Surrey; b. 26 Dec. 1914; adm. Sept. 1928 (H); left Apr. 1932; Hudson's Bay Co., later Min. of Labour; Intell. Corps 1944; m. 1941 Rosemary Elsie Mildred, d. of W. A. Summerton of West Wickham, Kent; d. Mar. 2001.

GB-2014-WSA-09416 · Person · 1886-?

Holland, Cecil Frederick, son of the Rev. Alfred Holland, Vicar of St. Agnes, Kenni ngton Park, Surrey, by Edith Shuldham, daughter of the Rev. William Wright Gilbert-Cooper, Vicar of Burwash Weald, Sussex; b. Jan. 26, 1886; adm. Jan. 19, 1899 (H); left Easter 1903; Keble Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1904; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Gloucs Regt. (T. F.) Sept. 2, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; was wounded; mentioned in despatches L. G. Sept. 22, 1916; M.C. Sept. 22, 1916, bar May 26, 1917; sometime head master of a pre­paratory school at Reigate, Surrey.