The third son of Arthur Frederick [d. 1919] and Florence Anne (Cropper)[d. 1920] Holdsworth of Widdicombe, Devonshire, Capt. Frederick Holdsworth was educated at Wellington College, and served in WWI with the late Devonshire Regiment. On 20 May 1914, he married Mary Wilmot Arundell; they had a very large family of six sons (one set of twins) and three daughters. Holdsworth inherited the family estate at Widdicombe--as his eldest brother was killed in WWI, and the second-born son had died as a child in 1882--but sold it in 1921. He held the post of Mayor of Totnes from 1934-36, acted as Deputy Lieutenant (1936) and Justice of the Peace in Devon, and was Lay Rector of Okehampton and Stokenham.
Bibliography
1952
Pine, L.G., ed. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. 17th ed. London, 1952: 1263-1264.