T.R.E. Holmes

Thomas Rice Edward Holmes (24th May, 1855, Ireland—4th August, 1933, London) was a scholar best known for his extensive and fundamental work on Julius Caesar and his Gallic War commentaries. He was the fifth son of Robert Holmes, a landed proprietor and a descendant of John Arbuthnot, a friend of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Holmes was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was assistant master at Lincoln Grammar School (1878–80), Blackheath Proprietary School (1880–85), and St. Paul’s School (beginning in 1886). In addition to his books, Holmes published a number of articles in the English Historical Review, Classical Quarterly, and other journals. Books authored by Holmes include A History of the India Mutiny (1883), Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul (1899), Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar (1907), and The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire (1923).