HOLTE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1567-9 (Chapter Muniments 54016-8, 54020).
HOLT, JOHN; b. ; at school in 1662; KS 2 May 1665; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1668, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1668, scholar 1669.
HOLT, FRANCIS LUDLOW, brother of Thomas Lyttleton Holt (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1794; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1798, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 May 1798; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 31 Oct 1807, matr. Mich. 1807; adm. Middle Temple 11 Dec 1801, called to bar 27 Jan 1809; Northern Circuit; an Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioner; South Auditor, Duchy of Lancaster 1819-26; Vice-Chancellor, County Palatine of Lancaster, from 1826; migrated to Inner Temple 1829, Bencher 1831, Treasurer 1840; KC 1831; for many years editor, Bell’s Weekly Messenger; author, The Law of Libel, 1812, the comedy The land we live in, 1804, and of other legal and dramatic works; m. 31 Oct 1809 (IGI) Jane Bell, niece of John Bell, publisher and proprietor, The Weekly Messenger; d. 29 Sep 1844. DNB.
HOLT, EDWARD, son of Rev. William Holt, The Barbican, London; bapt. St. Giles, Criiplegate, London 28 Apr 1611 (IGI); adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1632, matr. 2 Nov 1632, aged 21, Westminster Student to 1636; BA 1636; MA (from Pembroke Coll. ) 19 Feb 1638/9; ordained; Rector of Alfold, Surrey 1635 (still 1674). (will proved PCC 12 Jul 1679, he of Alford, Surrey).
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
HOLLAND, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments).