Edward Anthony Holden

Edward Anthony Holden (2 August 1805– 28 August 1877) was a landowner who lived at Aston Hall in Aston upon Trent, Derbyshire. He inherited land and bought more starting in 1833. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1839. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ObnB2K0Pm-gC&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=%22Rowland+Smith%22+1826&source=web&ots=UxFcTh3g0s&sig=BHfIxZTHDMvB8wHp88LkEtRpNR0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA272,M1 Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal] , Marquis of Ruvigny, 1994, ISBN 0806314346, accessed 11 September 2008] By the time of his death he had created an estate of over 2,000 acres of land in Derbyshire and Leicestershire.

Biography

Holden was born in 1805 to Reverend Charles Edward Holden whose father Robert Holden had purchased lands in Aston upon Trent and Weston upon Trent in 1648. [ [http://www.south-derbys.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/09E3504C-1E4B-4F55-9458-4246633EABFB/0/AoTA4complete.pdf Aston on Trent] , Conservation Area Histories, South Derbyshire, accessed 12 September 2008] The family occupied the Hall in Weston and the Hall in Aston. The Holden family are thought to have come from Findern but Henry Holden settled in Aston in 1569. It was his son who started the estate and it was largely extended by Henry's grandson, another Robert (-1746) who was a successful lawyer.. This small estate was to be inherited by Edward Anthony Holden.

Holden married Susan Drummond Moore (from Appleby Magna) on 22 November 1832 [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=%22Edward+Anthony+Holden%22&source=web&ots=YySNBeyR2o&sig=B4DZc2YuuoT0p5fuVaZih_lZpRI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours] , John Burke, 1835] and began the expansion of the family's property in the following year. In 1839 he served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire taking over from his brother-in-law, George Moore, who had been Sheriff the year before. [LondonGazette|issue=19462|startpage=232|date=31 January 1837|accessdate=2008-05-30]

Holden's son, Lieutenant Edward Shuttleworth Holden, joined the 23rd Welch Fusiliers and served at the Crimean War. He is considered to be Aston on Trent first military victim when he died of wounds received in the assault on the Redan at the Siege of Sevastopol on 9 September 1855. A window in Aston's church is the memorial to Holden's eighteen year old son [ [http://www.astonontrenthistory.org.uk/pages/32-atwar.html Aston at War] , Aston on Trent Local History Group, accessed 15 September 2008] as well as a memorial to him an an old Harrovian. [ [http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/royal_garrison/harrovians.htm Royal Garrison Church] , Memorials in Portsmouth, accessed 15 September 2008] Holden's younger son, Francis Shuttleworth Holden, attended Rugby School in 1865. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=57MHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=%22Edward+Anthony+Holden%22&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=RDnWSPuLIJTEzASP4t3rDg Rugby School Register] By Frederick Temple]

Holden's daughter, Rosamond Shuttleworth Holden, married the Reverend Degge Wilmot Sitwell on the 16 April 1863. He was the vicar at Leamington Hastings and they had twelve children. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=ObnB2K0Pm-gC&pg=PA333&dq=%22Edward+Anthony+Holden%22&ei=bDTWSLmqAZX8ygSB0-DrDg&sig=ACfU3U11HufCzMCS6ZQ4nfOYfax2Z3qvMA Plantagenet Role of the Blood Royal] , Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval, Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval Staff, 1994, ISBN 0806314346, accessed 21 September 2008]

By the time of his death, Holden owned 1,500 acres of land in Derbyshire and about 500 acres of land in Leicestershire. In his home village of Aston he had bought numerous cottages and fields in small lots including the, "Coach & Horses" and the schoolhouse. It isn't clear who eventually came into the possession of the lands in Leicestershire, but the lands in Aston were disposed of in one lot in 1898. William Dickson Winterbottom bought these lands from Charles Shuttleworth Holden. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=026-d779b&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18 Papers of Holden Family of Aston Hall, Aston-upon-Trent] , The National Archives, accessed 22 September 2008]

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