Herbert Paton Holt (1890-1971)
Major Herbert Paton Holt, M.C., M.P., of Send Grove, near Woking, Surrey
He was born at Montreal and was educated at St. Alban's School in England and the Royal Military College of Canada. He fought in both world wars and wrote a history of his regiment, the 3rd Dragoon Guards. He settled in England, living at 20 Cadogan Gardens, London, and in 1927 purchased Lackham Manor, Wiltshire, for £78,000. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire and Member of Parliament for Upton, Essex. After his first wife died, he purchased Send Grove near Woking from the Duchess of Westminster and inherited Ballycrystal House in the East End at Nassau in the Bahamas. His first wife, Aileen Elizabeth, was the daughter of George Lighthall Cains, Stockbroker and partner in Greenshields & Co., Montreal, and his wife Amy, sister of Percy Cowans, also of Montreal. One of their two daughters, Elizabeth, was the widow of John Vavasseur Fisher, 3rd Baron Fisher. Their only son was killed in World War II. In 1946, the year after the death of his first wife, he married Opal Eree M'Ilhenny McCaulay, of Meadville, U.S.A.
