Edward Holt (priest)

Edward John Holt[1] MBE (29 September 1867 – 6 November 1948) was Dean of Trinidad from 1914 to 1947.[2]

Holt was born into an ecclesiastical family in Grantham [3] and educated at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. He was ordained in 1890[4] and served curacies in the Windward Islands and Port of Spain before coming to Trinidad's Cathedral in 1895.[5]

Notes

1. NPG details
2. Mother Church TT Archived November 27, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
3. he was the elder son of the Rev. T. E. Holt, Diocesan Missioner for Winchester - ‘HOLT, Very Rev. Edward John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 21 Feb 2014
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p626: Oxford, OUP, 1929
5. Trinidad Ecclesiastical Establishment