Henry Augustus Holden
General information▶Date of birth: 27 December 1784 Place of birth: London ▶Father: John Rose Holden Mother: Mary Emily Tovey ▶Spouse(s): Mary Willets (Holden) Date(s) of marriage: 1813 Place(s) of marriage: Saint Bartholomew, Wednesbury, Staffordshire ▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Gentleman ▶Lifestory: The Revd. Henry Augustus Holden entered the Army, then married and attended university before he was ordained, serving ten years in the Church; but he did not need to work, and in his late forties retired to live a comfortable life in London. He was born in London in 1784, the youngest son of the Revd. John Rose Holden, of Birmingham, and his wife Mary Emily (née Tovey). Before entering the world of university and the Church he was commissioned Ensign in 1807 in the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot, becoming a Lieutenant in 1807; he retired from the regiment in 1812. The following year he married his second cousin Mary Willets Holden in Wednesbury, Staffordshire; the couple had four sons and three daughters. Holden matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford in 1817, BA 1821, MA 1824. Taking holy orders, he was ordained Deacon (Hereford) in 1821, but he seems not to have been ordained Priest. In 1821 he was licensed Curate of Wolstaston, Shropshire, and then in 1828 moved to become Curate of Warmington, in Warwickshire. Holden left Warmington in 1830 and does not seem to have had any further clerical office. In the early 1830s he is recorded in Brighton, and by 1837 in Northampton. In 1838 the Revd. Holden stayed at with “Miss M. Mary” (presumably his daughter Mary, though his wife was also “Mary”) at Mary Carden’s house, 2 Pittville Terrace North (now Clarence Lodge, Clarence Square), where they each took out a Subscription for one person to take the waters at the Pittville Pump Room. In 1841 he lived with his household in Torrington Square in Bloomsbury, in the mid 1840s off Gower Street, and in 1851 at 6 Warwick Villas, Kensington; while in Brighton and elsewhere he was noted for giving to charitable causes, especially University Hospital, London. Holden died at his home, 46 Addison Road, Kensington, where he had lived since at least the mid 1850s, on the last day of 1870, at the age of eighty-six. His estate at death was valued at under £35,000. ▶Moved to Pittville from: Northampton Moved from Pittville to: Northampton ▶Date of death: 31 December 1870 Place of death: 46 Addison Road, Kensington, London ▶Date of burial: Place of burial: ▶Notes: ID: 19354 Contributor(s): John Simpson
Found no family members on the Pittville History Works Database (based on “relation to head” in the 1841-1911 census records and 1939 register records) |