HOLT, Alfred Henry (son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844). Reported prize fights for The Era, Morning Advertiser, Bell’s Life in London and Sportsman. d. 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. bur. Nunhead cemetery.
HOLT, David. b. Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828; assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death; author of Poems, rural and miscellaneous 1846; Lays of hero worship and other poems 1850; Janus, Lake sonnets and other poems 1853; Poems 1868. d. Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March 1880.
HOLT, Elise. b. London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer, Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse 1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in burlesque of Lucretia Borgia 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (m. Henry Palmer). d. about 1873. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 182, portrait.
HOLT, Thomas (son of a wool merchant, Leeds). b. Horbury, Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55; purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873; author of Two speeches on the subject of education in New South Wales 1857. d. Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 95.
HOLT, Thomas Littleton. b. 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt; projected Weekly Chronicle; proprietor of Iron Times started during the railway mania 1845; edited Morning Chronicle; started many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected The Novel newspaper; started Ryland’s Iron trade circular at Birmingham; edited a weekly paper called Chat 1846; took an active part in popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited The Sixpenny magazine 1863; John Horsleydown or the confessions of a thief 1860. d. The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879. Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii, 35–46 (1882).
HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, Sir Francis Lyttelton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835). b. Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819; assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best riders after hounds of his time. d. Sherborne house, Malvern Wells 29 Dec. 1865. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii, 398–9 (1869).
HOMAN, Sir William Jackson, 1 Baronet (2 son of Rev. Philip Homan). b. 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. d. Dromeroe, Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. G.M. xxxvii, 406 (1852).
HOME, Cospatrick Alexander Ramey Home, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 10 Earl 1769–1841). b. Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875. d. near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. bur. in church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. F.O. list 1882 p. 213.
HOME, Daniel Dunglas (son of William Home of the family of the earl of Home). b. near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864; gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum, a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec. at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him £30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868; gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of Incidents in my life 1863, 2nd series 1872; Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism 1877. d. Auteuil, near Paris 21 June 1886. bur. at St. Germain-en-Laye. Annual register (1868) 187–206; The Mask (1868) 141–6, portrait; T. A. Trollope’s What I remember, i, 376–81; Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp. 577–81.
Note.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is understood to be a study of Home.