Holmes John

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Holmes John

Watercolour portrait of John Holmes, draper, by John Sowden.

Sowden's note in notebooks -

"Mr Holmes was the son of Mr Thomas Holmes, draper, & while a very young man was taken into partnership about 1820 under the style of Thos. Holmes & Son. In 1832 their business was removed from Bank Street to the corner of Darley Street. In 1845 Mr Thos. Holmes left the business to his son & devoted himself entirely to the business of stock and share broking. In 1857 Mr John Holmes was induced to leave his premises at the corner of Darley Street to the Bradford Banking Co for an extension of the bank and he opened a shop higher up in the same street, forming a portion of the present extensive range of premises. Mr Holmes however had for some time relinquished the active management of the business to his two partners, Mr W E Kirby and his eldest son Mr John Holmes Junr. Like his father, Mr John Holmes was a devoted Wesleyan and was very many years superintendent of the Kirkgate Sunday School. He also held all the most important offices in connection with local Methodism. He was a director of the Savings Bank & was of a singularly retiring nature in all his dealings, but held in universal respect. Mr Holmes had been a widower for some years and left a family of 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1891."

Year

1889

Image filename

Sowden-89