Reverend Dr John Ernest Holloway

c. 1900s

Botany Department, University of Otago

Unpublished

John Ernest Holloway (1881-1945) was heavily influenced by his father who was a keen naturalist and amateur microscopist. Early in his theological career, 1909-11, Holloway spent time in Barnsley, Yorkshire which was where it is thought he purchased a large microscope. On his return to New Zealand, Holloway was a Minister in Canterbury and on the West Coast of the South Island. He clocked up many miles on his motorbike in search of the ferns and mosses which formed the basis of his botanical research.