Cyril Holland
Cyril Holland | |
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Born | Cyril Wilde 5 June 1885 |
Died | 9 May 1915 | (aged 29)
Cause of death | Killed in action |
Nationality | British |
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Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland.
Life
According to his brother Vyvyan Holland's accounts in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde (1954), Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons. Their childhood was a relatively happy one.[1] However, after Wilde's very public trials, conviction in 1895, and imprisonment for gross indecency, their mother Constance chose to take the family out of the spotlight.
She took the surname Holland for both the boys and herself in order to protect them from public scrutiny. She moved with the boys to Switzerland and enrolled them at Neuenheim College, an English-speaking boarding school in Heidelberg, Germany.[2] Oscar Wilde died in 1900; neither of his sons saw him again after he went to prison. When he was released, he went to France and never lived in England or Ireland again.
From 1899 to 1903 Cyril attended Radley College, a private school then in Berkshire. [3] After leaving school, he became a gentleman cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Holland was commissioned as a
Death
When the
References
- ^ "A Life of Concealment". Time. 27 September 1954. Archived from the original on 12 February 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2008.
- ^ "biographies : Oscar Wilde children Vyvyan Wilde, Vivian Holland Cyril Wilde Cyril Holland". histclo.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ Radley Register, 1847-1933
- ^ List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1862-1914
- ^ TomFolio.com: Introduction, Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband, H.A.S. Beane Books
- ^ a b CWGC :: Casualty Details, Commonwealth War Graves Commission