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Authorised form of nameHolden; Sir; Henry Capel Lofft (1856 - 1937)
Dates1856 - 1937
Date of birth23 January 1856
Date of death30/03/1937
ActivityCareer:
Major, Royal Artillery
Honours:
CB 1911; KCB 1916
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/06/1895
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 367-369, plate, by E N da C Andrade
Notes:
Date of death apparently incorrect in ON
CodeNA7006
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1895/12Holden, Sir Henry Capel Lofft: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/002175Holden, Sir Henry Capel Lofftnd
NLB/13/549Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 October 1896
NLB/30/851Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Capel Lofft Holden, Fellow of the Royal Society31 May 1905
NLB/32/542Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Colonel [Henry Capel Lofft] Holden, [Fellow of the Royal Society]29 March 1906
NLB/33/728Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Capel Lofft Holden, Fellow of the Royal Society26 October 1906
NLB/38/392Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Colonel Henry Capel Lofft Holden, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1908
NLB/35/319Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Colonel Henry Capel Lofft Holden, Fellow of the Royal Society15 May 1907
NLB/36/408Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Colonel Henry Capel Lofft Holden, Fellow of the Royal Society26 October 1907
NLB/36/752Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lieutenant Colonel Holden, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1907
NLB/52/537Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons10 January 1916
MS/928/2/96Letter from Henry Capel Lofft Holden, Royal Arsenal, to Charles Vernon Boys21 November 1892
NLB/3/272Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Fellow of the Royal Society, 3 Staples Inn, W.C.26 April 1889
AP/77/4Unpublished paper, 'Constants of explosion of cordite and of modified cordite' by Robert Robertson21 March 1905
AP/77/4/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Constants of explosion of cordite and of modified cordite' by Robert Robertson21 March 1905
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