Robert Holtby

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Robert Tinsley Holtby FSA was an Anglican priest[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2004/04returns/04ac23.htm National Archives] and author. Amongst other papers he wrote “Daniel Waterland, A Study in 18th Century Orthodoxy”, 1966; “Carlisle Cathedral Library and Records Office”, 1966; “Eric Graham, 1888–1964”, 1967; “Carlisle Cathedral”, 1969; “Chichester Cathedral”, 1980; “Robert Wright Stopford”, 1988; “Bishop William Otter”, 1989; “Eric Milner-White”, 1991; and “The Minster School, York”, 1994 > British Library web site accessed 5 December 2009 in the second half of the 20th century.

Born in Thornton-le-Dale[https://web.archive.org/web/20110114230015/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/the-very-rev-robert-holtby-755434.html Obituary of the Very Rev Robert Tinsley Holtby.] The Independent. 9 April 2003. on 25 February 1921“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} and educated at Scarborough College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1947.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} In that year he married Mary, the elder daughter of Eric Graham, the Bishop of Brechin:The Times, Monday, 24 November 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50926; col B Marriages 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 then St Edward's School, Oxford. From 1959 to 1967 he was a Canon Residentiary at Carlisle Cathedral and a Director of Education, Diocese of Carlisle. For the next decade he was General Secretary of the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. During the same period, he was a member of the Schools Committee, Church of England Board of Education, serving as Secretary (1967–74) and then General Secretary (1974–77). He was Dean of Chichester[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=Code=='DS/UK/5831' National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives] from 1977 until his retirement in 1989. He died on 13 March 2003.{{cite web |title=The Very Rev Robert Holtby |website=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121936/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1424994/The-Very-Rev-Robert-Holtby.html |archive-date=2018-07-05 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1424994/The-Very-Rev-Robert-Holtby.html}}