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.

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).

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, JOHN; b. ; at school in 1662; KS 2 May 1665; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1668, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1668, scholar 1669.

HOLTE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1567-9 (Chapter Muniments 54016-8, 54020).

HOLTHOUSE, EDWIN HERMUS, son of Carsten Holthouse FRCS LSA, Storey’s Gate, Westminster, surgeon, and Agnes Cowcher, dau. of Samuel Kent, Upton on Severn, Worcs.; b. 18 Nov 1855; adm. 24 Jan 1868 (James'); QS 1870; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1874, adm. pens. 7 Oct 1874; BA 1878; MA 1882; MB 1883; MRCS 1881; FRCS 1884; Consulting Surgeon, Western Ophthalmic Hospital, from 1921; practised in London; m. 17 Jul 1884 Harriet Emily, elder dau. of Robert Hesketh FRIBA, Wimpole Street, London, architect; d. 2 Jan 1949.

HOME, SIR EVERARD, BART., son of Robert Boyne Home, Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire, Surgeon, 16th Light Dragoons, and Mary, dau. of Col. --- Hutchinson; b. 6 May 1756; adm. 17 Jan 1770; KS 1770; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1773, but was never adm.; pupil to his brother-in-law, the surgeon John Hunter, at St. George’s Hospital; qualified at Surgeons’ Hall 1778; Assistant Surgeon, Naval Hospital, Plymouth; Surgeon to 1st battn., 60th Foot 2 Dec 1782; Apothecary and Storekeeper, Jamaica 25 Dec 1782; half-pay 6 Oct 1784; Staff Surgeon, Great Britain 14 Jun 1793; retd. Sep 1794; after his return from Jamaica in 1784 Home acted as John Hunter’s assistant for some years; Lecturer on Anatomy, St. George’s Hospital 1792, Surgeon to St. George’s Hospital 1793-1827; Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, College of Surgeons 1804-13, 1821, Hunterior Orator 1814, 1822, President 1821; Serjeant-Surgeon to Kings George III and George IV from 9 Mar 1809; created baronet 27 Jun 1813; Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital from 1821; FRS 15 February 1787, Copley Medal 1807; his inexcusable destruction of Hunter’s MSS after using them in the preparation of his own papers for the Royal Society is much to be regretted; an enthusiastic OW who for many years came down to the School on 17 November in full dress to ask for an Early Play for the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession; edited Hunter’s treatise On the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds, 1794; author, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, 1814-28, and other works; m. 4 Nov 1792 Jane, widow of Stephen Thompson, and dau. of Rev. James Tunstall DD; d. 31 Aug 1832. DNB.