Richard Rivington Holmes

Sir Richard Rivington Holmes, KCVO (16 November 1835 – 22 March 1911) was a British archivist and courtier.

He was appointed by Queen Victoria and was reappointed by King Edward VII in 1901.

[4] In 1880, Holmes married Evelyn Gee, eldest daughter of the Reverend Richard Gee, Vicar of New Windsor and Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Holmes himself took a large cache of loot from the Battle of Magdala back to Great Britain, much of which found its way into the British Museum.

[5][6] The looted Kwer’ata Re’esu icon (a European painting of Christ with the crown of thorns) remained in his personal possession.