William Holwell Carr [SEP] date of death
William Holwell Carr
The Reverend William Holwell Carr, (1758–1830) was an English priest, art dealer, art collector and painter. His bequest of paintings was an important early addition to the collection of the National Gallery in London.
Life.
He was born William Holwell in Exeter, Devon, the son of Edward Holwell, an apothecary, and educated from 1776 at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1783, MA in 1784 and BD in 1790, remaining as a Fellow until 1793,
- Thomas Duffus Hardy (editor), "John Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae"
- Gloucester Dioc. Reg.
- Watt, "Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature"
- Nichols "Lit. Anecd". iii. 743, confuses this William Holwell with a nephew, William Holwell Carr
- Gilbert, D. (1838) "The Parochial History of Cornwall: Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin; with Additions and Various Appendices