Thomas Rice Edward Holmes, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (24 May 1855 – 4 August 1933), who usually published his works under the names T. Rice Holmes or T.R.E. Holmes, was a scholar best known for his extensive and "fundamental" work on Julius Caesar and his Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Gallic War commentaries.
Holmes was born at Moycashel (today Castletown-Geoghegan), Ireland. He was the fifth son of Robert Holmes, a landed proprietor and a descendant of John Arbuthnot, a friend of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
Holmes was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Merchant Taylors' School
and Christ Church, Oxford. He was assistant master at Lincoln Grammar School (1878–80), Blackheath Proprietary School (1880–85), and St Paul's School, London, St. Paul's School (beginning in 1886). In 1888, he married Isabel Isaacs, the daughter of Lionel Isaacs of Mandeville, Jamaica. They lived at 11 Douro Place, Kensington.
In addition to his books, Holmes published a number of articles in the ''English Historical Review'', ''Classical Quarterly'', and other journals. He died at age 78 in Roehampton, London.
Books
* ''A History of the Indian Mutiny'' (1888)
Internet Archivean
Google Books.* ''Four Famous Soldiers'' (1889)
* ''Caesar's Conquest of Gaul: An Historical Narrative'' (1903)
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Internet Archive(part I only); review of revised second edition of 1911 by H. Stuart Jones, ''English Historical Review'' 27 (1912) a
* ''Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar'' (1907)
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Internet Archive review by H. Stuart Jones, ''English Historical Review'' 24 (1909) a
* as translator:
''Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War''(1908)
* ''The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928)
Google Books
Articles
Holmes wrote several articles, and Bill Thayer has documented "a flurry of argument and counter-argument" among Holmes and other scholars on the identity of the Portus Itius named by Caesar.
[Bill Thayer]
notes
to the entry "Portus Itius" in the 1911 Britannica at LacusCurtius. These appear at LacusCurtius in hypertext editions:
*F.J. Haverfield, review of Holmes' ''Caesar's Conquest of Gaul'' (1899) and Camille Jullian's ''Vercingetorix, Vercingétorix'' (1901), ''English Historical Review'' 18 (1903) 332–33
*T. Rice Holmes, "Last Words on Portus Itius," ''Classical Review'' 23 (May 1909) 77–8
* H. Stuart Jones takes Holmes to task while reviewing ''Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar'' in ''English Historical Review'' 24 (1909) 115–116 and 60
* T. Rice Holmes, "An Explanation," ''Classical Review'' 26 (March 1912) 7
* F.J. Haverfield, "Portius Itius," ''Classical Review'' 27 (December 1913) 258–26
*T. Rice Holmes, "F.H. on Portius Itius," ''Classical Review'' 28 (March 1914) 45–4
* F.J. Haverfield, "Portus Itius," ''Classical Review'' 28 (May 1914) 82–8
*T. Rice Holmes, "Portus Itius," ''Classical Review'' 28 (September 1914) 193–19
* E.E. Genner, "Portus Itius," ''Classical Review'' 32 (May 1918) 7
Holmes' "The Battle-field of Old Pharsalus," ''Classical Quarterly'' 2 (1908) 271–292 is also republished at LacusCurtiu
Biographical sources
* ''Nature'' 132 (2 September 1933) 342, obituary
partial text
*''Who's Who 1900'' (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1900), vol. 52, p. 53
online.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Holmes, T. Rice
1855 births
1933 deaths
British classical scholars
Scholars of Roman history
Julius Caesar
People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
People from Castletown Geoghegan