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Holme (surname)
Holme is a surname and may refer to: * Alan Thomas Holme (1872–1931), British administrator in India * Bob Holme (born 1969), American ski jumper *Charles Holme (1848–1923), English journalist and art critic *Edward Holme (1770–1847), English physician * Henry Holme (1839–1891), Anglican bishop * John Francis Holme (1868–1904), American newspaper artist and book printer *Jørn Holme (born 1959), Norwegian judge and civil servant * Phil Holme (born 1947), Welsh footballer *Randle Holme, list page * Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham *Robert Holme (1896–1922), British World War I flying ace *Thea Holme (1904–1980), English actor and writer *Thomas Holme (1624–1695), Surveyor General of Pennsylvania *Timothy Holme (1928–1987), English author See also *Holmes (surname) Holmes is an English-language surname with several origins. The name can be a variant of the surname ''Holme''. This surname has several etymological origins: it can be derived from a name fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Thomas Holme
Alan Thomas Holme Order of the Indian Empire, CIE (1872 – 9 July 1931) was a British administrator in India. Holme was born in Naples and was educated at the International School in Naples, Bedford School, Clifton College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the Indian Civil Service and was posted to Oudh, where he served as a magistrate, settlement officer, and acting private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor. He then served as a settlement officer in Rajputana, political agent in the Southern States, British Resident at Udaipur, Chief Commissioner of Ajmer-Merwara, and Officiating Agent to the Viceroy of India, Governor-General in Rajputana. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1920 New Year Honours. He retired in 1922. Footnotes References *Obituary, ''The Times'', 11 July 1931 1872 births 1931 deaths People from Naples People educated at Bedford School People educated at Clifton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Holme
Bob Holme (born June 6, 1969) is an American former ski jumper who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro .... Bob is currently the Director of Mountain Maintenance for Winter Park Resort in Colorado where he has worked since 2003. Bob is responsible for the leadership, management, and strategic direction for mountain maintenance operations at Winter Park Resort. He currently oversees operations and maintenance of heavy equipment, motor vehicles, grooming and trails, the resort's 7 terrain parks, Trestle BikePark, snowmaking, and lift maintenance. References 1969 births Living people American male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers for the United States Ski jumpers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Ski j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Holme
Charles Holme (; 1848–1923) was an English journalist and art critic, founding editor of The Studio (magazine), ''The Studio'' from 1893. He published a series of books promoting peasant art in the first decades of the 20th century. Life Holme was born on 7 October 1848 in Derby, the younger son of a silk manufacturer, George Holme, and his wife Ann, ''née'' Brentnall. Holme himself worked in the silk and wool trades, trading with Turkestan, India and China in the 1870s. He subsequently opened offices in Japan, visiting the country in 1889 with the painter Alfred East and Arthur Lasenby Liberty and his wife. He served as vice-president of the Japan Society of the UK, Japan Society, and was a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1902. Holme was a member of the private bibliophile club, the Sette of Odd Volumes, and President in 1890. Holme was painted by Philip Alexius de László in 1908; the portrait was published in ''The Studio'' in 1911. He died on 14 March 1923 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Holme
Edward Holme (17 February 1770 – 28 November 1847) was an English physician and supporter of learned societies. Life The son of Thomas Holme, farmer and mercer, he was born at Kendal in Westmorland. After attending Sedbergh School, he spent two years at the Manchester Academy, and then studied at the University of Göttingen and University of Edinburgh. He graduated MD at the University of Leyden in December 1793. Early in 1794 Holme began practice in Manchester, and was shortly afterwards elected one of the physicians to the infirmary there. He joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and was one of its Vice-Presidents from 1797 to 1844, when he succeeded John Dalton as President. He was one of the founders of the Portico Library, and its President for twenty-eight years. He was also a founder and first President of both the Manchester Natural History Society and the Chetham Society (from 1843). He was the first president of the medical section of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Holme
Henry Redmayne Holme (8 November 1839 in Kirk Leatham – 6 July 1891 at Basseterre) was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th century. Of a Yorkshire family, Henry Redmayne Holme was son of the Rev. James Holme. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1868. Ordained in 1868, his first posts were curacies in Attercliffe and Lythe. From 1875 to 1881, he was Vicar of St Anthony's Montserrat, and from 1882 to 1891 Vicar of St George's, Basseterre, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Antigua; he was also Archdeacon of St Kitts from 1885 to 1891. In 1891, he was appointed Bishop of British Honduras. Consecrated on 1 March, he died in a shipwreck A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. Angela Croome reported in January 1999 that there were approximately ... four months later. There is a memorial to him at Belize's Anglican cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Francis Holme
John Francis Holme (June 29, 1868–July 27, 1904), known professionally as Frank Holme, was an American newspaper artist and book printer. He is best known for his news illustrations, beginning with his work for the ''Pittsburgh Press'' when he covered the 1889 Johnstown flood. Born in Corinth, West Virginia, he married Ida Van Dyke in 1893, around the same time he moved to Chicago. He made a name for himself as the illustrator at the ''Chicago Post'', the '' Chicago Chronicle'' and the ''Chicago Daily News'' in part because of the speed at which he completed illustrations at the scene of news events. He founded the School of Illustration in Chicago which trained journalists to represent current events through chalk-plate, pen-and-ink and greased crayon illustrations. His illustrations were displayed in three different exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago. Holme created the Bandar Log Press in 1895, which published books such as ''Just For Fun'', ''Swanson, Able Seama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørn Holme
Jørn Holme (born 16 August 1959) is a Norwegian judge and civil servant. He grew up at Nordberg, and originally wanted to become a priest. He was active in the Norwegian Christian Student Association while studying. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree from the University of Oslo in 1986. He left a job as research assistant there to do his compulsory military service, then work in the police. In 1988 he was hired as a police inspector for Senja, and from 1990 to 1991 he was an acting judge at Trondenes and Oslo District Courts. From 1991 to 2001 he was a public prosecutor in the Norwegian National Authority for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim). His work mainly concerned environmental crime. He edited and wrote books during this period, and launched the periodical ''Miljøkrim''. He had short interruptions from this position to be acting presiding judge in Eidsivating in 1993, acting assisting director in the Norwegian Directorate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Holme
Philip Charles Holme (born 21 June 1947) was a Welsh amateur footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Hull City and Swansea City. He was capped by Wales at amateur level. After retiring as a player due to injury in 1974, he became a manager and coach. Personal life Holme has worked as an electrician An electrician is a tradesperson specializing in electrical wiring of buildings, transmission lines, stationary machines, and related equipment. Electricians may be employed in the installation of new electrical components or the maintenance ... Career statistics References Welsh men's footballers English Football League players Wales men's amateur international footballers Men's association football forwards 1947 births Sportspeople from Briton Ferry Living people Bridgend Town A.F.C. players Swansea City A.F.C. players Hull City A.F.C. players {{Wales-footy-forward-stub Hull City A.F.C. non-playing staff Afan Lido F.C. players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randle Holme
Randle Holme was a name shared by members of four successive generations of a family who lived in Chester, Cheshire, England from the late years of the 16th century to the early years of the 18th century. They were all herald painters and genealogists and were members of the Stationers' Company of Chester. All four painted memorial boards and hatchments, and some of these can still be found in Cheshire churches. Randle Holme I (1570/71–1655) The first to bear the name, he was born in Chester, the son of Thomas Holme, a blacksmith whose family came from Tranmere, which was then in Cheshire, and Elizabeth Devenett from Kinnerton, Flintshire. He was apprenticed to Thomas Chaloner who was deputy to William Flower, Norroy King of Arms in 1578. He was elected an alderman by 1604 and appointed as a servant to Prince Henry by May 1607. In 1600 and again in 1606 Holme was appointed deputy herald of the College of Arms in Cheshire, Lancashire and North Wales. Holme's main duty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Holme, Baron Holme Of Cheltenham
Richard Gordon Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham CBE, PC (27 May 1936 – 4 May 2008) was a British Liberal Democrat politician. Educated at University of Oxford ( BA Jurisprudence; St John's College) and Harvard Business School, Holme joined the Liberal Party in 1959, and was elected as the party's President in 1980 and 1981. He stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in East Grinstead, West Sussex, in 1964, and in a 1965 by-election. He then stood in Braintree, Essex, in October 1974. He later sought election at the more promising Cheltenham at the 1983 general election and at the 1987 general election. He was appointed a CBE in the 1983 New Year's Honours. After the Liberal Party's merger with SDP in 1988, he joined the newly formed Liberal Democrats. He later said that he believed that had the merger happened before the 1987 general election, then the party could have attracted more votes and seats at that election and displaced Labour in the opposition. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Holme
Flight Lieutenant Robert Charles Lyon Holme (10 November 1896 – 4 October 1922) was a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. Biography Holme was the only son of Robert Francis Lyon Holme, and the grandson of Charles Trask, of Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset. After passing out from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as a "Gentlemen Cadet", he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) regiment on 11 November 1914. Holme was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, and was awarded Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate No. 1665 on 28 August 1915 after qualifying in a Maurice Farman biplane at the British Flying School in Le Crotoy, France. He was appointed a flying officer (observer) on 21 October, and then a flying officer on 13 January 1916. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 June 1916, and on 1 July was appointed a flight commander with the acting rank of captain. On 24 January 1917 Holme was awarded the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Holme
Thea Holme (nee Johnston, 1904–1980) was a British actor and writer. Holme was born Thea Johnston in 1904. Her father was the architect Philip Mainwaring Johnston. She studied art at The Slade and then theatre at the Central School of Drama. She made her professional stage debut in 1924 as Hippolyta in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', at the Richmond Theatre. She was in repertory at the Oxford Playhouse, where her husband Stanford Holme was producer, in the 1930s. She performed for both the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and the BBC Repertory Company during World War II, as well as directing at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. Holme also appeared for BBC television in several adaptations of classic novels including ''The Warden'', ''Emma'', ''Persuasion'' and ''Nicholas Nickleby''. She was also a dramatist, adapting works for stage and radio, including Jane Austen's ''Mansfield Park'' and ''Northanger Abbey''. She subsequently moved with her husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
