John Holder

John Holder may refer to:

John Holder (cricketer)

John Wakefield Holder (born in Superlative, Saint George, Barbados, on 19 March 1945) is an English former professional cricketer and first-class and Test umpire.

As a player for Hampshire County Cricket Club (1968–1972) Holder was a brisk right arm medium pace bowler. In the 1970 season Holder took 55 wickets at 23.27 runs. His best bowling figures were 6 for 49 and 7 for 79 against Gloucestershire in 1972. In 1972 Holder also took a hat-trick against Kent. His career average as a bowler saw him take 139 first class wickets at 24.56. Holder stood as umpire in eleven Test matches and nineteen One Day Internationals.

Holder became a first class umpire in 1983 and was promoted to officiate his first test-match in 1988. Holder was appointed by the International Cricket Council as one of five worldwide regional umpires' performance managers and is responsible for monitoring and improving the performances of umpires in Europe, the Caribbean, America and Canada.

He co-authored the book You Are The Umpire with the illustrator Paul Trevillion. The book was based on a comic strip that was included in the sports section of the British newspaper The Observer and bears similarities with You Are The Ref as both highlight unusual or difficult decisions that have to be made by sporting officials.

John Holder (bishop)

John Walder Dunlop Holder (born Bath Village, St. John, 1948) is a Barbadian Anglican archbishop. He is the current Anglican Archbishop of the West Indies and holds the See of Barbados.

He was born at Bath Village, St. John on the island of Barbados and attended the parishes Elementary Mixed School (1953-1958), graduated from the Modern High School and went to Codrington College. Leaving school, he married Betty Lucas-Holder, with whom he had son Stuart, and began work as a teacher and a civil servant before entering Codrington College in 1971 to be trained for the priesthood for the Diocese of the Windward Islands. He graduated from the College in 1975, having obtained a B.A. in Theology from the University of the West Indies and a Diploma in Theological Studies of Codrington College.

Ordained deacon in December 1974 it was just nine months later, in September 1975, he was ordained to the priesthood in St. George’s Cathedral on the island of St. Vincent where he spent two years as a curate. He returned to his home island of Barbados in 1977 as tutor in Biblical Studies at Codrington College. This allowed him to continue part-time at his academic studies at the School of Theology, the University of the South, from which he graduated in 1981 with a Masters in Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) and a major in Old Testament Studies (hermeneutics and the writings of Second Temple Judaism).