Author: Holloway, William
Biography:
HOLLOWAY, William (1761-1854: Adams)
The youngest child of Lawrence and Frances (Kains) Holloway, born in Whatcombe in Dorset, he was orphaned in early childhood. His grandmother gave him a home and an education until he moved to Weymouth to be apprenticed to a printer. He found work with the publisher and circulating-library proprietor John Love, eventually becoming a partner in the business. In 1787 he married Christian Jackson; they had four daughters. Love encouraged Holloway's literary bent and printed some of his early work (short poems and a novel, Dovedell Hall) but after Love died in 1793 Holloway left Weymouth for London, where in 1798 he found work as a clerk with the East India Company. Upon his retirement from the EIC in 1821, his wife having died, he set up house in Hackney with his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, and outlived her by two years. He is buried in Stoke Newington Cemetery. (V. J. Adams, "William Holloway," Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 82 (1960): 167-74; ancestry.com 31 Mar. 2019) HJ
Other Names:
- W. Holloway