Monday, March 17 – 1902
Alderman John Houlding, J.P., an ex-Lord Mayor of Liverpool, who had been in the City Council for some 18 years, and a member of the West Derby Guardians 29 years, died yesterday at Cimiez, where he had been sojourning in the hope of re-establishing his health. He was 70 years of age.
(Liverpool Mercury, 18-03-1902)