Dr. Cuthbert D Holloway

From Vexpedia, The Guide to Time Travel

Dr Cuthbert D Holloway (1811 - 1860) was an early pioneer in the field of Time Travel during the Victorian Era. His main work centred around 'Time Dilation' and the unconscious mind. His most famous paper written on the subject was 'The Emerging Ideas on Space Time and its Relationship to Inner Emotional Repressed Sexual Trauma'.

Beginnings

Holloway, Born Cuthburtus deHavilland Mowbray Holloway was the only son of Elena & Alfonso Holloway. He was bought up on Cocos Island (off the Coast of Costa Rica) where he helped run a small fishing and mining company with his parents. At an early age Holloway had a keen interest in chemistry often collecting berries, fauna and herbs in attempt to make healing remedies for his mothers dry skin problems (see also Xeroderma). Soon Holloway tired of Island life and heard through various friends at school about the Mexican Rebellion against the Spanish Colonies. He was only ten at the time but decided then and there that he would go to the main land and help the Mexicans with their plight.

Castaway

After 3 years of helping with the movement, mainly by administering skin aid to injured fighters, Holloway was exiled from Costa Rica & Cocos to Romania. It is still unclear as to why this happened, being 13 at the time of exile there is little one could have done to cause such a huge penalty. It is said that Holloway had befriended one of the fighters in the rebellion and had elicit relations with his daughter 10 years his senior. Again this is not clear due to unreadable sources. Not having any money or way of income he turned to his knowledge of nature to help guide him, moving into and living in the Carpathian Mountains where he studied the wild animals and european plant species that lived there. From late 1824 through to the end of 1827 Holloway's whereabouts is patchy. However his knowledge of plant life, animals and 'The Spirit of the Earth' became immense. It was with this knowledge and money that he saved via his 'Chocolate Hat' creation, that he managed to earn a place at Oxford University.

University Life

Being 17 and being at Oxford was a dream come true for Holloway. It wasn't long before his ideas on nature, herbalism and animal ritual lead him to the modern ideals of chemistry, maths and physics. It is at this juncture that he meet and started a life long friendship with fellow Oxfordian, Prof. Bartholomew Strangeways. The two shared many interests and went on to own a laboratory together, where their ideas on Space Time eventually flourished.

Time

It was whilst working on his doctorate however that Holloway wrote two very important papers about Time Space. Firstly his paper entitled 'Stretching Time, Stretching Space and Stretching in General', which talked about how one could stretch time using ones own physical self and also by using the elasticity of the mind. His second paper and the one he is most famous for was, 'The Emerging Ideas on Space Time and its Relationship to Inner Emotional Repressed Sexual Trauma'. This paper caused quite a large amount of upset upon its release into the public domain, mainly because alot of Holloway's peers where mentioned as examples of sexually repressed persons suffering from their own cognitive emotional retardations. However, decades on and his paper was cited as the major inspiration to Sigmund Freud and his deeply profound ideas about the deep seated sexual and animal forces buried in all humans.

Discovery

Holloway and Strangeways' time in their laboratory yeilded many results, but none more mysterious than the 'Vexkiddy Years'. Details pertaining to this period can be found here.

Death

As it stands there is no actual record of Holloways death, nor that of this friend and partner Strangeways. Both dissappeared in 1860, though there is absurd talk about them travelling through time together on some kind of quest.