NEW BISHOP

Evening Star, Issue 22232, 9 January 1936, Page 3

NEW BISHOP

ARCHDEACON HOLLAND TO WELLINGTON DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH CHURCHMAN [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 8. It is officially announced that the V<Vn. Herbert St. Barbe Holland, M.A., Archdeacon of-Warwick, England, has accepted nomination as Anglican Bishop of Wellington, to succeed the Rt. Rev. Dr T. H. Sprott, whose resignation was announced in July last. Though the appointment is final, it is not expected that Archdeacon Holland will arrive in Wellington before May or June because he will have to give three mouths’ notice to liis superiors in Warwick. Archdeacon Holland has had a distinguished career in parish and administrative work for his church. Ho is the youngest of three sons of the late Canon William Lyall Holland, of Coinhill-on-Tweed, and is a grandson of the late Canon Henry Baker Tristram, of Durham, who was the eldest son of the Rev. H. B. Tristram, Vicar of Eglingham, and a grandson of Viscount Barrington. Archdeacon Holland’s eldest brother, Canon William Edward Sladen Holland, is now rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, and his other brother is Dr Henry Tristram Holland, who has a distinguished record as a surgeon. Archdeacon Holland is at present rector of Hampton-Lucy, Warwick, and has been Archdeacon of Warwick since 1929. He was born on October 15, 1882, and is married, having two sons and one daughter. Ho was educated at Durham School and at University College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner. In 1903 he gained secondclass in classical moderations, and in 1905 first-class in modern history. He graduated B.A. in 1906 anti M.A. in 1909. In 1905-00 he was in India, and in 1907 he attended Bishop’s Hostel, at Farnham, in Surrey, becoming a deacon in 1908 and a priest in 1909. From 1908 to 1912 he was curate of Jesmond Parish Church, Neweastle-oli-Tyne, and from 1912 to 1917 be was vicar of St. Luke’s, also in Newcastlc-on-Tync. He served as a temporary chaplain to the forces from 1918 to 1920. In 1917 ho was appointed metropolitan secretary of the Church Missionary Society, a post which he held until 1920, when lie became home secretary of the same society. In the same vear he was appointed chief commissary to the Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong. In 1923 Archdeacon Holland was appointed Sub-dean and Vicar of St. Michael’s Cathedral, Coventry. In the following year he became Rural Dean of Coventry, and in 1925 he was appointed Proctor of the Convocation of Coventry. He relinquished these posts in 1929. From 1923 until 1929 he was Canon of Coventry, and from 1924 until 1929 he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Coventry. In 1929 he was appointed to the post which he will now have to relinquish—Rector of HamptonLucy, Warwick.