Henry holden biography
- Henry Holden may refer to: Henry Holden (theologian) (1596–1662), English Roman Catholic priest and theologian; Henry Holden (police officer) (1823–1900).
- He was president of the Baptist Union for twenty-one years, a deacon for twenty-five and a Sunday-school superintendent.
- Henry Holden (1596 – March 1662) was an English Roman Catholic priest, known as a theologian.
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Holden, Henry
Place of Birth: London
Date of enlistment: 9 January 1872
Age given at enlistment: 33
Rank: Private
Company: D
Location on 25 June 1876: In hilltop fight
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The Elusive Henry Holden
- Several earlier accounts of Henry Holden’s eventful life have appeared in print, each one portraying a somewhat different version of the ‘facts’ from the others.
Was Holden born in London, Brighton or somewhere else?
St Paul's Cathedral, London.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton.
- A major contributor to this legacy of confusion was Holden himself. Not only did he separately give both London and Brighton as his place of birth, he was equally cavalier about his age. All that can be said about his nativity is he was most likely born somewhere in England during the period from 1835 to 1843.
- The first verifiable reference to this elusive Englishman is the fact that he joined Captain Albert Cook’s Company C, 59th Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers, at Boston, on 5 January 1864. The regiment had been organised just a few weeks earlier and on th
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Sir Henry James Holden (1859-1926), saddler, carriage-trimmer and motor-body manufacturer, and Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947), motor-body manufacturer, were father and son. Henry was born on 18 July 1859 at Kensington, Adelaide, eldest of nine children of James Alexander Holden (1835-1887) and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Phillips. After falling out with his stepmother J. A. Holden had in 1854 left his late father's flourishing leather business at Walsall, Staffordshire, England, for the United States of America. Attracted then to Australia by the goldfields, he settled in Adelaide where he began a leather and saddlery business, by 1883 a considerable establishment in the colony. He was a staunch Baptist, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and active in the foundation of the Chamber of Manufactures. His son Henry was educated at Thomas Caterer's School, Norwood, and the Hahndorf Academy. At 19 he was sent to England to consolidate family business links. With both father and business ailing, he returned to the Adelaide leather trade. O
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Holden, Henry Edward
The youngest of 11 children, Henry E. Holden was born in Woodstock to parents John and Sarah (Booker) on December 8th 1842. He farmed on his property located on Concession 1, Lot 18 North Oxford for the greater part of his life. On Christmas Day, 1869 he married Annie Dunn and together they raised 8 children on their family farm.
Henry Edward Holden was a member of the Association of Veterans of 1866. He was the last veteran of the North Oxford Rifle Company, which was recruited and officered from the families of North Oxford in the early 1860’s under the direction of Capt. John Henderson. North Oxford Rifle Company served in protection of Canada during the Fenian Raids. The largest battle took place in Southern Ontario during the summer of 1866 where the company served on the front between Windsor and Sandwich.
It is reported that the North Oxford Rifle Company had fewer men in hospital than any other detachment on duty at that point. The connection with the North Oxford Rifle Company was how Henry Holden was best known.
Henry Holden died at home
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