About Robert Holtby
Lived 1921 – 2003 (aged 82). Robert Holtby was a British canon, chaplain and anglican priest.
Robert Tinsley Holtby FSA was an Anglican priest and author in the second half of the 20th century.
Born in Thornton-le-Dale on 25 February 1921 and educated at Scarborough College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1947. In that year he married Mary, the elder daughter of Eric Graham, the Bishop of Brechin: they had three children. He was Curate of Pocklington until 1948 when he became a Chaplain to the Forces. Following this he was Chaplain and an Assistant Master at Malvern College from 1977 until his retirement in 1989. He died on 13 March 2003.
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British priest and writer (1921–2003)
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Robert Holtby was born on 25 February 1921.
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Robert Holtby was a canon, chaplain and anglican priest.
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