Colonel George Edward Holman. Architect.
From : "J. Lyons & Co started as a chain of teashops in 1894 before developing a range of teas, produced from 1921 at Greenford ... This was a single-storey, saw-tooth-style factory whose design was developed with the advice of the architect George Edward Holman (1862-1922) of Holman & Goodrham. The site was vacated in the 1995 and redeveloped from 1998 as the Lyon [sic] Way Industrial Estate."
From : designed the Engineer's House, Lea Bridge Depot, Clapton 1890-92.
From : "'The Foreman's House' at No.150 Lea Bridge Road, .... Built in 1891/2 in the domestic revival style, the architect was Lieutenant Colonel George Edward Holman... This was not the first Foreman's House that was built on the Essex Waterworks site, as there had previously been 2 other buildings with the same name. This house was still standing in the 1960s but was sadly demolished later on."
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, states that George Edward Holman was born on 4 August 1862 in Hammersmith, Middlesex (now Greater London) the younger child of George Holman (1833-1909) and Phoebe Holman née Howes (1833-1885). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1862 in the Kensington Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London). On 14 September 1862 he was baptised in St Paul's Church, Hammersmith where the baptismal register confirms his date of birth. It also shows that his family lived in Bridge Road, Hammersmith and that his father was a carpenter.
He is shown as aged 8 years in the census that was taken on 2 April 1871. He was living at 4 Brunswick Cottages, Hammersmith, with his parents and his sister, Mary Ann Holman (1858-1931) who was described as a scholar. His father continued to be listed as a carpenter.
In the census that was undertaken on 3 April 1881 he was described as aged 18 years and an architect's clerk. He was still residing at 4 Brunswick Cottages, Hammersmith, with his parents. His father was still shown as a carpenter.
He married Amy Kate Jeffrey (1866-1940) in the 3rd quarter of 1887 in the Fulham Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London).
He was shown on the census that was undertaken on 5 April 1891 as aged 28 years and an architect & surveyor. He was living at 109 Bow Road, Bow, London, with his wife and their daughter Dorothy Holman (b.1888), together with female general servant.
The census that was taken on 31 March 1901 shows him as aged 38 years, an architect & an employer, now residing in a house in Queens Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, with his wife and their three children: Dorothy Holman; Lilian Holman (b.1892) and Clifford Evans Holman (1895-1953), together with his nephew Pierson Jeffrey Hutchinson (b.1881) and a female domestic cook.
shows that King George V, conferred upon him the Territorial Decoration (TD), as the Lieutenant-Colonel of the 17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), a Territorial Force regiment.
When he completed his census return form on 2 April 1911, he described himself as aged 48 years, an architect and an employer. He was living in an eleven roomed property called Woodside in Hospital Lane, Buckhurst Hill, with his wife and their three children: Dorothy Holman - a photographer; Lillian Holman and Clifford Evans Holman, together with two female domestic general servants.
The census return form that he completed on 19 June 1921, shows him as aged 58 years, 10 months, an architect and an employer whose business address was 6 King's Bench Walk, London, EC4. He was living in an eleven roomed house called 'Woodside', Knighton Lane, Buckhurst Hill, with his wife and their widowed daughter, Dorothy Elliott, together with a cook and a housemaid.
His death was registered as aged 59 years in the 1st quarter of 1922 in the Epping Registration District, Essex. Probate records show his addresses remained as Woodside, Buckhurst Hill and King's Bench Walk and that he died on 5 March 1922. His body was buried on 8 March 1922 in the churchyard of St John the Baptist Church, Buckhurst Hill. Probate was granted to his widow on 9 May 1922 and his effects totalled £4,959-2s-9d.
He is shown as 'G.E.HOLMAN' on the memorial stone at St. Stephen's National School, Saxon Lea Court, Saxon Road, London, E3.
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