William Hopkins Holyland (1807-1882) was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, withSamuel Lowell Price andEdwin Waterhouse, the accountancy practice ofPrice Waterhouse that now forms part ofPricewaterhouseCoopers.[1]
He first joined the firm of Coleman, Turquand, Youngs & Co. where he became an expert inliquidations andbankruptcies. He became friends with another clerk by the name of Edwin Waterhouse while working there. In 1865, he went into partnership with Samuel Lowell Price at an office at No. 13Gresham Street in London,[2] and then persuaded Price to recruit Waterhouse into the practice that is now famous.[1]
Holyland retired in 1871.[3]
He died 20 January 1882 at Hatch Gate, Horley, Sussex.[4]
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