George Frederic Holroyd

From 'A Branch of the Holroyd Family' by Thomas Holroyd, 1879:

George Frederic Holroyd was sent to Winchester College as a Commoner in February, 1837. While at Winchester he gained the second Heathcote prize, and also the Duncan prize for Mathematics on its first institution, as well as other prizes. He was entered at Trinity College, Cambridge where he went to reside in October, 1842. In January, 1846, he graduated B.A. a Wrangler and second class in the Classical Tripos, and M.A. in 1849. Whilst at Cambridge he was distinguished as one of the best oarsmen of the Trinity Boat Club, rowed stroke at the head of the River for a year, and number two in the University Crew of 1845, who were victorious. He also rowed in other successful Matches, particularly at the Thames Regatta, when a four-ordered Crew of the T.B.C. defeated the Oxford University four. He passed an examination in Hebrew after he had taken his degree, and continued at Cambridge for some years taking pupils. In 1865 he came forward as a Candidate for the representation of the Town of Northampton in Parliament, at the invitation of the Conservatives, and though defeated succeeded in polling a larger number of votes than any Conservative Candidate had previously obtained. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in Hilary Term, 1873, and devoted himself to Parliamentary practice. His career at the Bar, commenced so late in life, but already full of promise, was cut short by his sudden death in 1874. He was a Magistrate for the County of Northampton, and held a Lieutenant's Commission in the Militia for that County.