Sir
Edward
Wheewall
Holden
BEng
Born in College Town, South Australia, Australia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Florence Muriel (Holden) Shaughnessy
Husband of
Hilda May (Lavis) Holden
— married
18 Mar 1908 in Adelaide, South Australia
Father of
Nancy Eileen (Holden) Buttfield DBE and John James Holden
Died
at age 61
in North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Oct 2017
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Biography
Edward Holden BEng is Notable.
Sir Edward Wheewall Holden [1] (14 August 1885 – 17 June 1947) was an Australian industrialist who took his family carriage and saddlery business, Holden & Frost, into a partnership with General Motors to create Australia's first automobile manufacturer, General Motors-Holden's Ltd.
Sources
- Joan Hancock and Eric Richards, Holden, Henry James (1859–1926), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 16 August 2019.
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