Henry Holme

Who was Henry Holme?

Henry Redmayne Holme 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 acting 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 four months later. There is a memorial to him in Belize’s Anglican cathedral.