Son of Henry Holloway, one of the "Holloway Brothers". Bernard ("Babe" because of his smooth complexion) lived in Burntwood Grange — across from what is now called Trinity Fields (an important venue for rugby and cricket in late Victorian and Edwardian sporting life). Bernard was a prodigious sportsman — [rugby...he played cricket for Sussex and toured with the MCC, and represented England at lacrosse]. As for so many families at this time, this "gilded youth" died in the First World War.
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Bernard was born at Burntwood Grange on 13 January 1888. The Grange was a sizeable pre-Victorian mansion, noted for its magnificent Gardens and conservatory, on the site of what is now Burntwood Grange Road. It was demolished circa 1940...
Leys School, Cambridge...[Methodist]
Jesus College Cambridge...
Sportsman — rugby, cricket, lacrosse. Played for England in cricket and lacrosse. Played for Sussex, and MCC in West Indies.
Professional life — a Solicitor
Bernard was commissioned on the 23rd September 1914, as 2nd Lieut., Royal Sussex Regt., promoted to Lieutenant in October 1914, and Captain in 9th Batt. in December 1914. He served in France and was killed in action during the Battle of Loos, on 27 September, aged 27 (the same day that Rudyard Kipling's son Jack was killed).
[PB: Wkipedia in an article about the poem "My Boy Jack" says RK's sone was never called Jack, always John - so "Jack" was somebody else. See
[Wikipedia: Link.]
.Bernard has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. See also Wikipedia: Loos Memorial.]
He is also commemorated on his School Roll of Honour, College Roll of Honour, at Lords, on the legal profession Roll of Honour, and the Upper Tooting Methodist Church Memorial. This church was destroyed in WW2. When the memorial was replaced, his name was recorded as "H Holloway" (info. from SMM web-pages).
He left £10,540 in his will, a very large sum for 1916. His estate was split between his father and 2 brothers. His investments in war loans were left to Miss Louisa Douglass Chapple*.
Bernard had two elder brothers, Roland Eveleigh and Herbert John, who went into the family firm. One was knighted for his contribution to Mulberry Harbours in WW2. Herbert lived in Wimbledon while Roland lived at 60 Lyford Road (a Holloway Bros. house).
[PB: Really? The current no.60 was built post WWII on the site of a V1? V2? bomb. Have the houses been re-numbered, or did he live in a house that was destroyed? For photo, see Link.]
The family firm was responsible for building the Magdalene [Magdalen] Park Conservation area. The scheme was to have been a garden suburb, but the completion of the scheme was frustrated by the compulsory acquisition of the land between Swaby Road and Openview by Wandsworth Borough Council in the 1920s. The Council also acquired the land between Fieldview and Ellerton Road in the 1930s.
The family firm also built a number of landmarks including Chelsea and Westminster Bridges, the extension to the Bank of England, Lavender Hill Library and Bagdad Railway Station.
* Miss Louisa Douglass Chapple married Cedric Blaker, C.B.E., M.C. in 1921. She had two children and died at the age of 93 in Lindfield, Sussex, in 1985. Cedric and Bernard both served in the Royal Sussex Regiment, though it seems Cedric served in France after Bernard's death. Louisa was a V.A.D.Nurse during the war. [Voluntary Aid Detachment of civilian nurses]. To read further click here [PB: excellent pdf].
Lastly, an moving "imagined" letter addressed to Bernard Holloway from Louisa's granddaughter explaining her grandmother's motives for going out to France with the V.A.D.