Neils Walwin Holm

With his commission he managed to purchase the equipment, and moved to Lagos Colony in 1886.

[3] He built a successful photographic business there, gaining early commissions from the colonial administration.

On his return to Lagos, he advertised himself as a West African representative of UK manufacturers.

He kept up transatlantic connections using a telegraphic cable address and advertisements in the British magazine Practical Photographer.

[3] In 1910, he gave up photography, and from 1910 to 1917 trained at the Middle Temple as a barrister for the Lagos courts.