HOLLAND, SAMUEL (1803 - 1892), a pioneer of the North Wales slate industry and chief promoter of the establishment of Dr. Williams's school for girls at Dolgelley
Date of birth: 1803
Date of death: 1892
Spouse: Caroline Jane Holland (née Burt)
Parent: Katherine Holland (née Menzies)
Parent: Samuel Holland
Gender: Male
Occupation: a pioneer of the North Wales slate industry and chief promoter of the establishment of Dr. Williams's school for girls at Dolgelley
Area of activity: Business and Industry; Education
Author: William Llewelyn Davies
Born 17 October 1803 in Duke Street, Liverpool, son of Samuel Holland (who was interested in lead and copper mines and slate quarrying in North Wales) and Katherine (Menzies). Educated in various schools in England and in Germany, he started to work in his father's office in Liverpool. His connection with Wales, which was to remain unbroken until his death, began in 1821 when he was sent by his father to supervise work at his new slate quarry at Rhiwbryfdir in the parish of Ffestiniog. In his autobiography in NLW MS 4983C (see also the other manuscripts named below) Samuel Holland gives details of his slate quarrying and other industrial activities in Wales; the autobiography, for such it is, sketches Holland's other activities; e.g. it explains how he came to be interested in Dr. Williams's School, Dolgelley. Holland represented Merioneth in Parliament (as a Liberal) from 1870 to 1885. He lived for years at Plas Penrhyn, near Penrhyndeudraeth and, for some years before his death, at Caer-deon, between Barmouth and Dolgelley. He died 27 December 1892; his widow Caroline Jane (née Burt) died in 1924.
Author
- Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 4543C
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 4983-7
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 12293C (a pedigree of the Holland family)
- Megan Ellis=, 'A Link with D.W.S.' in Dr. Williams' School Magazine=, July 1939=
- W. R. Williams, The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, from the earliest times to the present day, 1541-1895 (Brecknock 1895), 118
- =Supplement to Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, 1952 (= NLW MS 4983C)
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Samuel Holland
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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