BISHOP OF WELLINGTON

Northern Advocate, 9 January 1936, Page 9

BISHOP OF WELLINGTON

ARCHDEACON OF WARWICK APPOINTED

[Per Press Association. —Copyright 3 WELLINGTON, This Day. It is officially announced that the Ven. Herbert St. Barbe Holland, M.A., Archdeacon of Warwick, England, has accepted nomination as the 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 at Wellington before May or June, because he will have to give three months’ notice to his superiors in Warwick. Prominent Family.

Archdeacon Holland’s family has been prominent in the Anglican Church for generations.' He is the youngest of three sons of the late Canon William Lyall Holland, of Cornhill-on-Tweed, and 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 had 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. He was educated at Durham School and at the University College 1 , Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner in 1903. He gained second class in classical moderation, and, in 1905, first class in modern history. He graduated B.A. in 1906, and M.A, in 1909. Has Been In India. In 1905-06 he was in India, and in 1907 he attended Bishop’s Hostel, Farnham, Surrey, becoming deacon in 1908 and priest in 1909. From 1908 to 1912 he was curate of Jesmond Parish Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and from' 1912 to 1917 he was vicar of St. Luke’s, also in Newcastle-on-Tyne. He served as temporary chaplih to the Forces from 1918 to 1920. In 1917 Archdeacon Holland was appointed Metropolitan Secretary of the Church Missionary Society,, a post which he held until 1920, wfien he became Home Secretary of the same society. In the same year he was appointed chief commissary to the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong.

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 the post in 1929.

From 1923 until 1929 he was canon of Coventry, and from 1924 until 1929 he was examining 'chaplin to the Bishop of Coventry. In 1929 he was appointed to the post he will naw have to relinquish, that of rector of Hampton-Lucy, Warwick.