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| Henry Edmund HOLLAND (1868 - 1933) |
| compositor, newspaper editor, politician (leader of NZ labour party) |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Frederick Austin HOLLAND (1890 - ) Allan Edmund Wilberforce HOLLAND (1892 - 1955) Roy HOLLAND (1894 - ) Leila May HOLLAND (1897 - ) Edmund HOLLAND (1899 - 1904) Agnes Louisa HOLLAND (1902 - ) Henry Harry Grenfell HOLLAND (1904 - ) Cedric HOLLAND (1906 - ) |
Henry Edmund HOLLAND (1868 - 1933) + Annie MCLACHLAN (1867 - 1949) |
Edward Edmund Henry HOLLAND (1841 - 1919) | Thomas HOLLAND (1798 - 1853) | |
| Ruth HAWKINS (1819 - ) | ||||
| Mary CHAPLAIN (1844 - 1913) | William CHAPLAIN | |||
| Ellen LEWIS | ||||
| b. 1868 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia |
| m. 1888 Annie MCLACHLAN (1867 - 1949) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 08 Oct 1933 at Huntley, New Zealand aged 65 |
| Parents: |
| Edward Edmund Henry HOLLAND (1841 - 1919) |
| Mary CHAPLAIN (1844 - 1913) |
| Siblings (5): |
| William HOLLAND (1866 - ) |
| Ada Mary HOLLAND (1871 - ) |
| Annie Eva HOLLAND (1873 - 1961) |
| Leila Ellen HOLLAND (1876 - ) |
| Thomasina Jane TINHAM (1864 - ) |
| Events in Henry Edmund HOLLAND (1868 - 1933)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 1868 | Henry Edmund HOLLAND was born | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 15565/1868 | 6 | |
| 1888 | 20 | Married Annie MCLACHLAN (aged 21) | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 1426/1888 | 6 |
| 1890 | 22 | Birth of son Frederick Austin HOLLAND | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia | 25249/1890 | 6 |
| 1892 | 24 | Birth of son Allan Edmund Wilberforce HOLLAND | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia | 25794/1892 | 6 |
| 1894 | 26 | Birth of son Roy HOLLAND | Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia | 35683/1894 | 6 |
| 1897 | 29 | Birth of daughter Leila May HOLLAND | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia | 4739/1899 | 6 |
| 1899 | 31 | Birth of son Edmund HOLLAND | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia | 31437/1899 | 6 |
| 1902 | 34 | Birth of daughter Agnes Louisa HOLLAND | Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia | 27395/1902 | 6 |
| 1904 | 36 | Birth of son Henry Harry Grenfell HOLLAND | Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia | 22462/1904 | 6 |
| 1904 | 36 | Death of son Edmund HOLLAND (aged 5) | Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia | 13253/1904 | |
| 1906 | 38 | Birth of son Cedric HOLLAND | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 38300/1906 | 6 |
| 1909 | 41 | Imprisoned for sedition | New South Wales, Australia | 6 | |
| 29 Nov 1913 | 45 | Death of mother Mary CHAPLAIN (aged 69) | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 19003/1913 | 6 |
| 31 Oct 1919 | 51 | Death of father Edward Edmund Henry HOLLAND (aged 78) | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 23825/1919 | 6 |
| 08 Oct 1933 | 65 | Henry Edmund HOLLAND died | Huntley, New Zealand | 6 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090341b.htm
HOLLAND, HENRY EDMUND (1868-1933), Labor leader, was born on 10 June 1868 at Ginninderra, New South Wales, younger son of native-born parents Edward Holland, farmer, and his wife Mary, née Chaplin. He received elementary schooling until he was 10, then worked on a farm until he was apprenticed at 14 as a compositor to the Queanbeyan Times. After he had served his time, in 1887 Holland left Queanbeyan to find work in Sydney. On 6 October 1888 at the Palmer Street manse he married Annie McLachlan, whom he had met at a Salvation Army meeting. In 1890 he became unemployed, and after two years of privation he left the Salvation Army and joined the Australian Socialist League in Sydney in 1892. Henceforth Holland actively espoused a radical and militant socialism as a journalist and public speaker, becoming increasingly critical of the new Labor Party, which he regarded as insufficiently revolutionary: he finally broke with it in 1898. He found erratic work on the Australian Workman in 1893 and in October next year he and a friend Tom Batho launched the Socialist as a voice for the left-wing militants and unemployed. In 1896, after a conviction for libel in which he was unable to pay the fine, Holland was gaoled for three months. At the end of that year he transferred his newspaper to Newcastle, calling it Socialist Journal of the Northern People, and in 1898 he secured its amalgamation, under his editorship, with a Sydney paper, as the People and Collectivist. In 1900 this paper moved to Sydney, still under Holland, as the People. Standing for the Socialist Labor Party in 1901, Holland was defeated for the Senate and for the State seat of Lang. That year he also organized the Tailoresses' Union of New South Wales, leading them into a bitter strike in November. But in 1902 he withdrew from organized socialism to edit the Grenfell Vedette owned by his friend W. A. Holman. He soon tired of Grenfell and in 1905 returned to Queanbeyan to edit the unsuccessful Queanbeyan Leader. In February 1907 he left for Sydney to launch a new militant socialist publication, the International Socialist Review for Australasia. This coincided with a vigorous resurgence within the socialist movement and an increase in industrial disturbances. Holland again entered a State election campaign in 1907 and was defeated for Darling Harbour. In 1909 he became involved in the Broken Hill strike and was convicted of sedition, serving five months of a two-year sentence. As a Revolutionary Socialist, he was defeated for West Sydney in the 1910 Federal elections by W. M. Hughes. General physical breakdown and a knee injury forced him into hospital in 1911. Next year Holland was asked to make a lecture tour of New Zealand. He arrived during the Waihi gold-quartz miners' dispute, in which a striker was killed; he collaborated in writing the history of these events. He accepted the editorship, in Wellington, of the Maoriland Worker, the New Zealand labour weekly, and became involved in the massive 1913 strike agitation. Imprisoned for seditious language, Holland served three months of a twelve-month sentence. Defeated as a Socialist Democratic Party candidate in 1914, he was prominent in the formation of the New Zealand Labour Party in 1916 and in 1918 was elected to the House of Representatives for Grey. Next year he became chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, a position he held until his death in 1933, despite occasional criticism and challenges. The growth in Labour's support made him leader of the Opposition in 1925 but Labour did not gain power until the election of 1935. Holland was a socialist of extraordinary and selfless dedication and character. Self-educated and sensitive, he was a voracious reader and prolific writer: in addition to his constant journalism and public speaking, he wrote thirty-six pamphlets, mainly on labour issues, but also on subjects such as Samoa, China, Ireland and Mussolini and a volume of sentimental verse, Red Roses on the Highways (Sydney, 1924). His commitment to doctrinaire socialism was passionate and total, though it mellowed somewhat under the pressure of political practicalities. He worked incessantly and this, combined with deep conviction and a forceful personality, made him a formidable political advocate and adversary. Both rigid and humane, Holland contained powerful contradictions. While his colleagues sometimes regarded his socialism as an electoral liability, his unceasing drive and sheer force of will did much to take the New Zealand Labour Party from obscurity to the verge of office. While attending the funeral of a Maori 'king', Holland died suddenly of a heart attack on 8 October 1933 at Huntly, New Zealand, and was buried in Wellington cemetery: the New Zealand Labour Party erected a memorial over his grave. After leaving the Salvation Army he had no religious denomination, but he held strong moral views. He was survived by five sons and two daughters. Select Bibliography P. J. O'Farrell, Harry Holland, Militant Socialist (Canb, 1964), and for bibliography; Holland papers (Australian National University Archives and National Library of Australia). More on the resources Author: Patrick O'Farrell Print Publication Details: Patrick O'Farrell, 'Holland, Henry Edmund (1868 - 1933)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 336-337. The Adelaide Advertiser 8 May 1909 "THE ALBURY TRIALS HOLLAND SENTENCED. TWO YEARS HARD LABOUR Albury, May 7. Henry Edmund Holland, who was con- victed yesterday of sedition, was called up for sentence to-day. His Honor asked the accused if he had anything to say, and Holland replied, "I have nothing to say beyond that I might be permitted to serve the sentence passed in the Albury Gaol." His Honor asked McKenzie, the gaoler, if he would take a long-sentence prisoner, and that officer replied that there were prisoners with sentences up to six years in the gaol. He added that there was a pre- vious conviction against Holland for libel at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions on August 26, 1896, when he was fined £50 or three months' imprisonment. In passing sentence his Honor said to Holland-You have been found guilty of what is unquestionably a very grave offence, and, committed at the time it was, it is an exceptionally grave offence. You are the possessor of a very eloquent tongue, and made, I think, the very worst use you possibly could of it. There was a state of affairs at Broken Hill which I have de- scribed as almost unparalleled in this coun- try, and if it had not been for the coolness and courage of the police and the great tact of the leaders of the police, notably Super- intendent Mitchell, matters might have been very much worse. To a great extent the police by their action restored order. You, knowing all this, and having no connection with Broken Hill, took it upon yourself to go from Sydney all the way to Broken Hill to incite the people to lawless- ness. That is what you have done. You admitted yourself using certain words which are really disgraceful, but, fortu- nately for you, those words do not appear to have been followed by any serious dis- turbance. I have heard nothing to that effect at least. If further riots occurred after your speech I would have felt bound to give you a much heavier sentence than I intend to pass. I must nevertheless in- flict a sentence upon you which will show all that they have no right, to stir up dis- affection against the authorities. I quite concurred with what you said-and told the jury so-about your right to free speech in criticising the Government on public ques- tions but nobody has a right by speech to incite the people of any State to rebellion. That's what your speech comes to; nothing more or less. You told them that under the Federal Constitution no State had a right to send armed forces. It was simply ridicu- lous to say that the police were an armed force, and that the Government had no right to send police to any part of the State when disturbances arose. That is where you attempted to gull ignorant people. A pre- vious conviction for criminal libel appears against you, but I am not taking account of that. From what I gather it must have been a comparatively trivial offence, as you were fined £50, or in default three months' imprisonment. Under all the circumstances of the case I think a fair sentence to pass upon you is that you be imprisoned and kept at hard labor in the Albury Gaol for a period of two years." The Argus 4 Oct 1909 " STRIKE PRISONERS. HOLLAND RELEASED. SYDNEY, Sunday-The State. Govern- ment yesterday approved of the release of Henry Edmund Holland, one of the prisoners sentenced at the Albury Circuit Court in connection with the Broken Hill strike. This decision was conveyed to Mr Griffith, M.L.A., by the Premier (Mr. Wade), who stated that the cases of Wil- liam May and Walter Stokes would be con- sidered in the course of a few days. Peti- tions bearing fully 50,000 signatures were recently presented to the Premier in favour of the release of the strike prisoners. ALBURY, Sunday. - Henry Edmund Holland, who was sentenced to two years' hard labour for sedition by Mr Justice Pring on May 7, will be released from the Albury gaol at half past 6 o'clock to-morrow morning. The news of his release was conveyed to Holland by J. McKenzie, the gaoler, about 8 o'clock last night. Holland received the welcome intelligence quietly. He has been in excellent health since he was imprisoned. He is perceptibly subdued in demeanour, and though his imprisonment was comparatively short, it has undoubtedly not been immune from mental anxiety. Holland leaves Albury by the express train for Sydney to-morrow night. |
| Source References: |
| 6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001 |
| - Reference = 148 (Name, Notes) |
| - Reference = 148 (Birth) |
| - Reference = 148 (Other Event) |
| - Reference = 148 (Death) |
| - Reference = 148 (Marriage) |