Richard Rivington Holmes

Sir Richard Rivington Holmes, KCVO (16 November 1835 – 22 March 1911) was a British archivist and courtier.[1]

Biography

Holmes was Royal Librarian at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria, and was reappointed as such by King Edward VII in 1901.[2]

He was a lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Berkshire Regiment. He died in London on 22 March 1911, and was buried at Upton, Buckinghamshire.[3]

Family

He married, in 1880, Evelyn Gee, daughter of Rev. Richard Gee, Vicar of New Windsor and Canon of St. George′s Chapel, Windsor Castle.[3]

Ethiopian collection

Holmes's collection of Ethiopian artefacts that was amassed after the British Expedition to Abyssinia is in the British Museum.[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Holmes, Sir Richard Rivington". Who's Who. 1911. p. 985.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27336. p. 4838. 23 July 1901.
  3. 1 2 Woods 1912.
  4. ↑ British Museum Collection
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Woods, Gabriel Stanley (1912). "Holmes, Richard Rivington". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement​. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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