Vesey Weston Holt
(1824-1881)
4 May 1861

Volume 5, page 197, sitting number 3479. 

Born on 13 July 1824 at Winthorpe in Nottinghamshire, Vesey Weston Holt was the son of William Holt, an officer in the Royal Navy.

On 11 June 1850 ‘at St George’s, Hanover-square, Vesey Weston, eldest son of Captain William Holt, R.N., [married] Ellen Mary, only daughter of John S. Gaskoin, Esq., of Clarges-street, Mayfair’ (John Bull, 17 June 1850).

The marriage produced thirteen children in twenty years, though two died in infancy. 

In 1851 the couple were living at 6 Hugh Street in Pimlico with their first, as yet unnamed child, and three servants. Vesey Holt gave ‘Army Agent’ as his profession. 

In 1871 the family were living at 63 Warwick Square in Pimlico.

Vesey Weston Holt died, aged 56, after two days illness, on 14 January 1881 at Woodside House, Windsor Forest, Berkshire, leaving an estate valued at £45,000. The National Probate Calendar also mentions residences at 17 Whitehall Place in Westminster and at 63 Warwick Square in Pimlico.

‘The death of Mr Vesey Weston Holt, of Whitehall Place, the well-known and popular Army agent, is announced’ (Naval and Military Gazette, 26 January 1881).