[3][4] He died at Gonville and Caius College on 12 December 1867, aged 67,[5] and was buried at North Wootton.
[1][3] Although Holditch produced ten mathematical papers, he was extremely idle as a tutor.
[6] John Venn, an undergraduate at Caius in the 1850s then a Caius Fellow from 1857, noted that Holditch, despite his succession of college offices, "beyond a few private pupils, never took part in educational work":[3] He was a very ingenious mathematician, and would probably have distinguished himself had he been compelled to work.
The whole summer he spent fishing in Scotland or Wales.It is curious to see Holditch coming out of his den, which he does once in ten years, with something about rolling curves or caustics.
He was senior wrangler the year before Airy, and what has made a man of such decided talent shut himself up I never heard.