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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Lindsay Holford KCVO CIE CBE (2 June 1860 – 11 September 1926)[1] was a British Army officer and courtier. The son of Robert Stayner Holford, he inherited his father's considerable fortune, which included the Westonbirt House in Gloucestershire and Dorchester House on Park Lane, London. He continued his father's work in developing the Westonbirt Arboretum, which still exists today and is open to the public.

  1. ^ Wake, Jehanne (23 September 2004). "Holford, Sir George Lindsay". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62979. Retrieved 23 April 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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