sentences:  Hollom was a Council member and Vice President of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East.He was the first chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee and was awarded the British Trust for Ornithology's Tucker Medal in 1954 and the British Ornithologists' Union's Union Medal "for his outstanding contribution to the BOU and to ornithology" in 1984.He lived in Hydestyle, Surrey, from the mid-1980s until his death.