Author: HOLME, James
Biography:
HOLME, James (1801-82: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Orton, Westmorland, on 12 Mar. 1801, the son of Thomas Holme (1748-1825) and his wife Ellen Redman (1765-1831), who had married at Orton in 1785. (He later gave his sons the middle name Redmayne.) He went up to Trinity College Cambridge in 1819 but in 1822 migrated to Gonville and Caius (Scholar 1822-5, BA 1825) and then entered the established church. He served in several Yorkshire parishes: Perpetual Curate at St Mary’s, Low Harrogate (1827-39), Vicar of Pannal and Kirk Leatham (1839-54), Curate of East Cowton (1856), and Curate of Bolton, near Bradford (1868-73). He married Mary Anne Daniel (1805-85) on 22 June 1831 at Pannal. They went on to have six children. (Venn’s report in ACAD of a marriage to Elizabeth Rhodes in 1850 is possibly based on the confused report in the Illustrated London News on 3 Aug. 1850 which gave him as Vicar of Locking, Somerset.) He died on 27 Mar. 1882 at Oaklands, Grange over Sands, Lancs., where there is still a grave. He left an estate of just under £3000 to his wife Mary. In addition to the work listed here, he wrote Psalms and Hymns, Original and Select (1838), Mount Grace Abbey. A Poem (1843), and with his brother, Rev. Thomas Holme (1793-1872), Hymns and Sacred Poetry (1861). (ancestry.co.uk 12 Jul. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 12 Jul. 2022; CCEd 12 Jul. 2022; Leeds Intelligencer 23 June 1831; Yorkshire Gazette 15 Apr. 1882; Newsam, 194-6; George Markham Tweddell, The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham [1872], 370-83; Charles Rogers, Lyra Britannica [1867], 310-13; Julian, 529) AA