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Edward Holt (priest)

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Edward John Holt[1] MBE (29 September 1867 – 6 November 1948) was Dean of Trinidad from 1914 to 1947.[2]

Holt was born into an ecclesiastical family in Grantham[3] and educated at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. He was ordained in 1890[4] and served curacies in the Windward Islands and Port of Spain before coming to Trinidad's Cathedral in 1895.[5]

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  1. ^ NPG details
  2. ^ Mother Church TT Archived November 27, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ he was the elder son of the Rev. T. E. Holt, Diocesan Missioner for Winchester - ‘HOLT, Very Rev. Edward John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 21 Feb 2014
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p626: Oxford, OUP, 1929
  5. ^ Trinidad Ecclesiastical Establishment
Church of England titles
Preceded by Dean of Trinidad
1914–1947
Succeeded by