Emily Holroyd
Emily Holroyd operated out of the Torchwood Institute Cardiff branch, known in her day as Torchwood Cardiff and later as Torchwood 3.
Profile
Holroyd burnt to death a male Torchwood operative (possibly Philip Lyle) who had become infected by and started to change into a serpentine alien queen. Subsequently, she recruited the young thief Alice Guppy. (WEB: Torchwood.org.uk) A year or so later, circa 1899, she investigated and helped to recruit Jack Harkness to Torchwood, having already suspected both that he could not die and that he also might well know how to find Torchwood's enemy, the Doctor. (Jack did not actually know himself how to locate the Doctor.) Alice Guppy was at the very least, attracted to Holroyd, but Guppy's sadistic, unstable mental state made it doubtful that they actually developed a relationship. (TW: Fragments)
In 1901, following Alice Guppy's discovery of a "second" Jack Harkness (who had crossed his own timeline), she gave permission to have him frozen so as to wake up again in 2008 in order that Harkness could defeat Gray. (WEB: Torchwood.org.uk)
It is likely that she died either in a mission or of old age as she was deceased by the time Jack become leader of Torchwood in 2000.
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