Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850-1936) was an educationalist, writer and poet.
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..
He resigned in 1911, over a confidential memorandum criticising school inspectors who had formerly been elementary school teachers.
He was also a schools inspector, rising to become chief inspector for elementary schools in 1905.
His The Creed of the Buddha (1908) is well known; he also wrote a pantheist text All is One: A Plea for a Higher Pantheism.
Holmes was born in Moycashel, County Westmeath, Ireland.
Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850-1936) was an educationalist, writer and poet