Cecil Holt 1911-1969

Link to Cecils wife, Audrey Gardner Notes by Derek on his elder brother Cecil. Your father never liked the name Cecil. I don't know why. Mother chose it because of Cecil Myddelton, a kinsman who was apparently a very admirable young man. I think he was killed in the First World War...Father's Aunt Caroline Longstaff was married to a Myddelton and Mother's Aunt Rose Juvet also married a Myddelton. I don't know where the name Raymond came from. ..More

Merton College Oxford Register 1930

HOLT, Cecil Raymond.—A 2 Mar. 1911; s. of Robert Holt, of Hoylake, Cheshire. Educ. Radley Coll.; Merton 1930-1. Joined John Holt & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd. 1932. Royal Corps of Signals 1941; Intelligence Corps 1942-5; commissioned 1943; Capt. 1945. Dir., John Holt & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd. 1946. Member of Council, Univ. of Liverpool 1953-9; Chmn.,Holt Sons & Co. Ltd. 1960. m. 1936, Audrey Gardner, of Hoylake, Cheshire: three sons. Brothers, J. A. and D. J. Holt (Merton 1924 and 1937).

Retirement from the company 1967 and death 1969
We are sorry to record the retirement of Mr. Cecil Holt, a grandson of the founder and second son of Robert L. Holt (Chairman of the Company 1917-1947) who has been Chairman of HoIts Sons & Company Ltd. since 1960. The interest in wines and spirits is a comparatively new venture in the history of John Holt and therefore Mr. Cecil Holt's career with the Group has been largely connected with departments of West African Trade