George Holt (merchant)

For other people with the same name, see George Holt.

George Holt (1825– 3 April 1896) was a Victorian ship owner and merchant. He lived at Sudley House in Aigburth, Liverpool. He founded the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, and is the namesake of the University of Liverpool's George Holt Building, which currently houses the laboratories of the university's department of materials engineering.

Holt was a son of George Holt, Sr. and Emma Durning. He married fellow Liverpudlian Elizabeth Bright on 1 December 1853 and died on 3 April 1896.[1]

Among his brothers were Alfred Holt, founder of the Blue Funnel lines, and Robert Durning Holt, first Lord Mayor of Liverpool. There is a Halls of Residence at Edge Hill University called Holt in his honour.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval (2013). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume (Reprinted ed.). Heritage Books. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-78841-872-3.
  2. ↑ http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/undergraduate/accommodation/livingoncampus

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