Henry Redmayne Holme (8 November 1839 in Kirk Leatham – 6 July 1891 at Basseterre) was an

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bishop in the late 19th century. Of a Yorkshire family, Henry Redmayne Holme was son of the Rev. James Holme. He was educated at

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, 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

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, and from 1882 to 1891 Vicar of St George's, Basseterre, and Chaplain to the Bishop of

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; he was also

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of St Kitts from 1885 to 1891. In 1891, he was appointed

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on 1 March, he died in a

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four months later. There is a memorial to him at Belize's Anglican cathedral.Memorial
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1839 births People from Redcar and Cleveland Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Anglican bishops of Belize 19th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean 1891 deaths Archdeacons of St Kitts Clergy from Yorkshire {{Belize-bio-stub