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 1838/9.[1] By the time of his death he had created an estate of over 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land in Derbyshire and Leicestershire.[2]

Aston Hall today

Biography

Holden was born in 1805 to Reverend Charles Edward Holden who in turn was born to James Shuttleworth. Edward therefore came to have the name Holden by way of his grandmother, Mary who was the only child of Robert Holden (1676–1746). Robert Holden willed his estates to the second or later son of his daughter, Mary and her husband James Shuttleworth on the condition that this son and his male heirs adopt the arms and name of Holden.[3] James and Mary Shuttleworth and their daughter are captured in a large painting by Joseph Wright of Derby.).[4] Edward Anthony Holden's father was born Charles Edward Shuttleworth in 1750. He assumed the name of Holden and the accompanying estates in 1791.

The estates were established by an earlier Robert Holden (great grandfather to Mary) who had purchased lands in Aston upon Trent and Weston upon Trent in 1648.[5] 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, Robert (father to Mary) who was a successful lawyer.[2]

Edward Anthony Holden married Susan Drummond Moore (from Appleby Magna) on 22 November 1832[6] 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.[7]

Holden's eldest 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[8] as well as a memorial to him in old Harrovian.[9] Holden's second son, Charles Shuttleworth Holden b. 16 July 1838 d. 6 August 1872 was a Magistrate for the County of Derbyshire. He married Juliana Evans Hartopp, daughter of Edward Bourchier Hartopp M.P. (Little Dalby) in London in 1863 and had one son, Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden b. 7 January 1865 who was a Justice of the Peace and a Major in the Derbyshire Yeomanry[10] Holden's younger son, Francis Shuttleworth Holden, attended Rugby School in 1865.[11]

Holden's daughter, Rosamond Shuttleworth Holden, married the Reverend Degge Wilmot Sitwell on 16 April 1863. He was the vicar at Leamington Hastings and they had twelve children.[12] His daughter, Mary Shuttleworth was an activist in the temperance movement and she funded Derby's first children's playground in Bold Lane.

By the time of his death, Holden owned 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of land in Derbyshire and about 500 acres (2.0 km2) 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 Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden.[2]

References
  1. Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Marquis of Ruvigny, 1994, ISBN 0-8063-1434-6, accessed 11 September 2008
  2. Papers of Holden Family of Aston Hall, Aston-upon-Trent, The National Archives, accessed 22 September 2008
  3. Holden, Wilfred Herbert (1930). The Derbyshire Holdens and their Descendants. Litera Scriptura Manet. p. 94.
  4. Joseph Wright of Derby, Benedict Nicholson, vol 1, p97, 1968, accessed May 2011
  5. Aston on Trent Archived 8 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Conservation Area Histories, South Derbyshire, accessed 12 September 2008
  6. 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
  7. "No. 19462". The London Gazette. 31 January 1837. p. 232.
  8. Aston at War Archived 21 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Aston on Trent Local History Group, accessed 15 September 2008
  9. Royal Garrison Church Archived 13 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Memorials in Portsmouth, accessed 15 September 2008
  10. Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval (Marquis de), The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Exeter Volume (London, (1907) reprint Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore (1994)) p. 130
  11. Rugby School Register By Frederick Temple
  12. Plantagenet Role of the Blood Royal, Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval, Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval Staff, 1994, ISBN 0-8063-1434-6, accessed 21 September 2008
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