Holmes, Martin Rivington, son of Sir Charles John Holmes KCVO RWS FSA, Director of the National Gallery, and Florence Mary Hill Rivington, violinist and composer, d. of Charles Robertson Rivington FSA DLJP, solicitor, of Appleby, Westmorland; has abandoned second Christian name Jasper; b. 12 May 1905; adm. Sept. 1918 (H), non-res. KS Sept. 1919; left July 1924; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1924, hon. Mods 1926, aegrotat 1928, MA 1978; sec. to the Keeper, London Museum, 1932; FSA 1935; Princess Louise's Lond. Regt 1939-42 (Sergeant), Pioneer Corps 1942 (2nd Lieut.); War Office staff 1942-5 (Maj.); asst Keeper London Museum 1946, retd 1965; Appleby BC 1965-74, Town Council 1974-, Mayor 1975-6, 1983-5; author of Mediaeval England 1934, Shakespeare's Public 1960, The Guns of Elsinore 1964, Elizabethan London 1969, Shakespeare and his Players 1972; d. 4 Jan. 1997.