This angered the teachers' union and it led to the downfall of Robert Morant the permanent secretary to the Board of Education when it became public.
[citation needed] Holmes subsequent writings on education are taken as an early statement of "progressive" and "child-centred" positions, and are still cited.
For example, even a 1914 book review of his In Defence of What Might Be describes it as "pregnant with possibilities for the untrammeled soul of the growing child.
"[3] Words from his The Triumph of Love were set to music by the composer Charles Villiers Stanford, a friend.
[citation needed] Holmes married Florence Mary Syme (d. 1927) in 1880 and they had three children, two daughters and a son.