John Sinclair Holden
| John Sinclair Holden MD, FGS, MAI | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1836 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
Glenarn, Co. Antrim Larne, Co. Antrim [A6:2]&{1872} | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
LAS Council 1873 Member
LAS Council 1874 Member
LAS Council 1875 Member
House Notes
proposed 1867.06.21
Notes From Elsewhere
Born in Belfast on 14 Feb 1836 to John Holden and Letitia Maguire. He passed away on 1923 in Sudburn, England.
One of the oldest maritime photographs in the Museum's collections was taken c.1870 by Dr John Sinclair Holden, a general practitioner who lived in Glenarm, Co Antrim from 1867 to 1872. As a keen amateur photographer he made an early and important visual record of maritime life in his locality. This photograph is a self-portrait of Dr Holden standing in his own gaff-rigged sailing boat, which he humorously called The Emetic [Ulster Folk and Transport Museum]
May have also worked in Sudbury (if same J. Sinclair Holden) and seems to have been enthusiastic in amateur dramatics
The presentation was made by Dr. J. Sinclair Holden, the chairman of the Nursing Association Committee, at his residence,
East House. [1920 British Journal of Nursing]
Looking for ancestors and descendants of John Sinclair Holden, who was a doctor in Glenarm, near Belfast in the 1860's and then later, I think, practised in London - based on signed photo. He was a cousin of my great-grandfather James Holden of Whitby, Canada. The Doctor's siblings included 2 brothers: William, a minister of the Church of England near London; Henry or Harry, likewise in Ballymunez; and 4 sisters, names unknown, one of whom married a McGowan in Glenarm. Their father was Uncle John to my James, living in Hollywood, near Belfast, in 1869.
Dr. John's first marriage to Mary Andrewes of Sudbury (she died relatively young).
Marjorie Joan Holden and her sister Agnes Joyce were the children of a 2nd marriage of Dr. John Sinclair Holden to Agnes Sikes in Sudbury
Publications
External Publications
John Sinclair Holden MD. F.G.S. "On the Iron-ores associated with the Basalts of the North-east of Ireland" *1870 Journal of the Geological Society, London
House Publications
'Giants' graves' in Ireland
On Some Forms of Ancient Interments in Co. Antrim 1872
