HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (1800-1883)

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HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (1800-1883) , English patent-

medicine

MEDICINE

vendor and philanthropist, was born at Devonport, on the 22nd of September 1800, of humble parents. Until his twenty-eighth year he lived at Penzance, where he assisted his mother and brother in the baker's shop which his father, once a warrant officer in a militia regiment, had left them at his death. On coming to London he made the acquaintance of

Felix

Albinolo, an Italian, from whom he obtained the idea for the ointment which was to carry his name all over the world. The

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

of his enormous success in business was due almost entirely to

ADVERTISEMENT, or ADVERTISING (Fr. avertissement, warning, or notice)

, in the efficacy of which he had

great

GREAT

faith. He soon added the sale of pills to that of the ointment, and began to devote the larger part of his profits to advertising.

Holloway

's first newspaper announcement appeared on the 15th of October 1837, and in 1842 his yearly expenses for publicity had reached the sum of 5000; this expenditure went on steadily increasing as his sales increased, until it had reached the figure of 50,000 per annum at the time of his death. It is, however, chiefly by the two princely foundationsthe Sanatorium and the College for Women at Egham (q.v.), endowed by

Holloway

HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (1800-1883)

towards the close of his lifethat his name will be perpetuated, more than a million sterling having been set apart by him for the erection and permanent endowment of these institutions. In the deed of

gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut.
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

of the college the founder credited his wife, who died in 1875, with the advice and counsel that led him to provide what he hoped might ultimately become the nucleus of a university for women. The philanthropic and somewhat eccentric donor (he had an unconcealed prejudice against doctors, lawyers and

parsons

) died of congestion of the lungs at Sunninghill on the 26th of December 1883.

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