ARCHDEACON OF WARWICK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 January 1936, Page 5

ARCHDEACON OF WARWICK

NOMINATION ACCEPTED y AS ANGLICAN BISHOP OP j WELLINGTON (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. . It is officially announced that the Ven. 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 months’ notice to his superiors in Warwick. Archdeacon Holland has had a distinguished career in parish and administrative work for his church. Archdeacon Holland’s family has been prominent in the Anglican Church for generations. Me is the youngest of three sons of the late Canon William Lyall Holland, of Cornhill-oirTweed, 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 grand son of Viscount Barrington. Archdea:COn 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. The Bishop-Elect of Wellington, Archdeacon Holland, is at present Rector of Hampton-Lucy, Warwick, and has been Archdeacon of Warwick since 1929. He was born on 15th October, 1882, and is married, having two sons' and one daughter. He was educated at Durham School and at University College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner. In 1903 he gained a second-class in Classical Moderations, and in 1905 a first-class in Modem History. He graduated B.A. in 1906, and M.A. in 1909. In 1905-06 he was in India and in 1907 attended Bishop’s Hostel, Farnham, Surrey, becoming a deacon in 1908 and a 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 a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces from 1918 to 1920. In 1917 he was appointed Metropolitan Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, a post which he held until 1920, when 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 lie was appointed Proctor of the Convocation of Coventry. He relinquished these posts in 19.29. From 1923 until 1929 lie was Canon of Coventry, »and from 1924 until 1929 he was Examining Chaplain to liie Bishop of Coventry. In 1929 he was appointed to the post he will now have to relinquish—Rector of Hampton. Lucy, Warwick.