Thomas Holderness

Sir Thomas William Holderness, 1st Baronet, (11 June 1849 – 16 September 1924) was the first former member of the Indian Civil Service to be appointed to the post of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India but was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, where his parents, John William Holderness and his wife Mary Ann (née Macleod), had settled. and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1917 Birthday Honours, and was created a baronet, of Tadworth, in the County of Surrey, in the 1920 New Year Honours. He was offered a peerage, but refused it on financial grounds.

Family and later life On 14 March 1885, Holderness married Lucy Shepherd Elsmie, daughter of George Robert Elsmie, a fellow member of the ICS. They had a daughter and a son. He died suddenly while walking on the golf links at Walton-on-the-Hill near his home in Tadworth, Surrey. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Ernest, a British international golfer.

Writings Narrative of the Indian Famine, 1897 Editor, 4th edition of Sir John Strachey's India, 1911 People and Problems of India, 1912

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