Editing Harold Holt (section)

===Birth and family background===
Holt was born on 5 August 1908 at his parents' home in [[Stanmore, New South Wales]], a suburb of [[Sydney]]. He was the first of two sons born to Olive May (née Williams; formerly Pearce){{Efn|Holt's mother was born Olive May Williams. His maternal grandmother had remarried after the death of her first husband, James Henry Williams, and her children took the name of their stepfather, Arthur Pearce.<ref name=frame4/>}} and Thomas James Holt; his younger brother Clifford was born in 1910. His parents had married seven months before his birth, in January 1908.<ref name=frame4>{{cite book|author=Frame, Tom| author-link=Tom Frame (bishop)|title=The Life and Death of Harold Holt|publisher=[[Allen & Unwin]] / [[National Archives of Australia]]|year=2005|isbn=978-1-74114-672-1|page=4}}</ref> On his father's side, Holt was descended from James Holt, a cobbler from [[Birmingham]], England, who arrived in [[Colony of New South Wales|New South Wales]] in 1829.<ref>Frame (2005), p. 3.</ref> His paternal grandfather, Thomas Holt Sr., owned a large farming property in [[Nubba]], and was twice elected mayor of nearby [[Wallendbeen]]. Holt's father trained as a schoolteacher in Sydney and when Harold was born, worked as a physical education teacher at the [[Central Sydney Intensive English High School|Cleveland Street School]] in [[Surry Hills]]. Holt's mother was born in [[Eudunda]], [[South Australia]], and had Cornish, English, German, and Irish ancestry; her sister was the actress [[Vera Pearce]].<ref name=frame4/>