Henry Holt

Henry Holt may refer to:

  • Henry Holt (North Dakota politician) (died 1944), lieutenant governor
  • Henry Holt (publisher) (1840–1926), publisher and author from Baltimore, Maryland
    • Henry Holt and Company, Holt's publishing company
  • Henry E. Holt (born 1929), astronomer
  • Henry H. Holt (1831–1898), Michigan politician, lieutenant governor
  • Henry W. Holt (1864–1947), Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court

Famous quotes containing the words henry and/or holt:

    “Whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most hypothetical ideas. It is a matter of the very greatest importance that our theories of things that seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should be as far as possible true, and as far as possible removed from error.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

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