Herbert St Barbe Holland (15 October 1882 - 9 June 1966) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century. Holland was born in 1882, the youngest of three sons of Canon William Lyall Holland of Cornhill-on-Tweed. He was educated at

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and

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and

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in 1908. Following a

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he became

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of St Luke's,

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. From 1917 until 1924 he was Secretary of the

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and then Sub-Dean of Coventry. Finally (before his ordination to the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

) he was rector of Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire and, from 1929, the

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. In 1936 he became Bishop of Wellington, NZ. A decade later he returned to England as

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. A friend of Clement Attlee, he died in 1966, aged 83 and later had a street in

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named in his honour.Norwich Evening News
/ref> His son was the Rt Revd John Holland,

Bishop of Polynesia The Diocese of Polynesia, or the Tikanga Pasefika serves Anglicans in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands, within the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The diocese's first bishop was consecrated in 1908. The diocese's c ...

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The New Bishop of Wellington - Archdeacon Holland
1882 births People educated at Durham School Alumni of University College, Oxford Archdeacons of Warwick 20th-century Anglican bishops in New Zealand Anglican bishops of Wellington Deans of Norwich 1966 deaths Place of death missing British expatriates in New Zealand {{Anglican-bishop-stub