HOLL, Henry (brother of Francis Holl 1815–84). b. July 1811; first appeared on stage as prince Arthur in King John at Drury Lane 1828; acted in the provinces; for many years a member of Haymarket Co.; wrote for the stage Grace Huntley, Adelphi 1833, Wapping Old Stairs, Haymarket 18 Nov. 1837, Louise or the White Scarf, Victoria 1838, The Forest keeper, Drury Lane 15 Feb. 1860, and Caught in a trap, Princess’s 8 Feb. 1860; a reader at Hanover square rooms about 1874; author of The King’s mail 3 vols. 1863; The Old house in Crosby square 2 vols. 1863; More secrets than one 3 vols. 1864. d. 1 Horbury crescent, Notting hill, London 20 Nov. 1884. Theatrical Times, iii, 17, 50 (1848), portrait; N. & Q. 6 S. x 487 (1884).

HOLL, William (brother of the preceding). b. Plaistow, Essex, Feb. 1807; pupil of his father; engraved many portraits for Lodge’s Portraits 1834, Knight’s Gallery of Portraits 1833–36, &c.; engraved W. P. Frith’s An English Merrymaking, The village pastor, &c.; engraved pictures after J. Absolom, A. Elmore, B. West and others; F.G.S.; exhibited 22 engravings at R.A. 1860–71. d. 174 Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 30 Jany. 1871.

HOLLAND, Henry Edward Vassall, 4 Baron (only son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840). b. 7 March 1802; sec. of legation at Turin 24 July 1832, at Vienna 3 July 1835; minister plenipotentiary to Germanic confederation 17 April 1838, and to Florence 6 Dec. 1838 to 8 June 1846; succeeded 22 Oct. 1840; edited Foreign reminiscences of Henry Richard 3 Baron Holland 1850; Memoirs of the Whig party, By H. R. 3 Baron Holland 1852. d. Naples 18 Dec. 1859. Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 191, portrait.

HOLLAND, Charles. b. 1802; M.D. Edin. 1824; L.R.C.S. Lond. 1828; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; president Roy. Med. Soc. Edin. d. St. Chads, Lichfield 21 March 1876.

HOLLAND, Edward (eld. son of Samuel Holland, merchant, London). b. 1806; M.P. East Worcestershire 1835–7, contested E. Worcs. 4 Aug. 1837; contested East Gloucestershire 9 Jany. 1854; M.P. Evesham 1855–68. d. Dumbleton hall near Evesham 5 Jany. 1875.

HOLLAND, Rev. Frederick Whitmore. b. Dumbleton near Evesham 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1864; V. of All Saints with St. Lawrence, Evesham 1872 to death; revisited the peninsula of Sinai in 1861 and 1865; joint hon. sec. of Palestine exploration fund 1866 to death; a founder of the Sinai survey fund, and accompanied Sir C. W. Wilson’s expedition to Sinai 1868; again went to Sinai 1878; F.R. Geog. Soc. 1867, wrote many papers on Palestine in its Journal; author of Sinai and Jerusalem, or scenes from Bible lands 1870. d. on the Nissen, near Thun, Switzerland 27 Aug. 1880. Proc. R. Geographical Soc. iii, 670–1 (1881).

HOLLAND, George. b. Lambeth, London 6 Dec. 1791; clerk in a silk warehouse, London; appeared at Drury Lane in a small part 1817; first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1827 as Jerry in The Day after the Fair; treasurer of the St. Charles theatre, New Orleans 1834; connected with Mitchell’s Olympic theatre, New York 1843–9; with Wood and Christy’s negro minstrels under an assumed name 1849–52; member of Wallack’s Co. 1852–7; made his last appearance at Daly’s Fifth Avenue theatre 15 May 1870; in his performances he brought in numerous eccentricities, ventriloquial diversions and imitations of men and animals. d. New York city 20 Dec. 1871; 15,000 dollars subscribed for his wife and family. Thos. H. Morrell’s Life of G. Holland 1871; Ireland’s New York Stage, i 560, ii 421, 620 (1866–7).

HOLLAND, George Calvert. b. Pitsmoor, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1801; apprentice to a hairdresser; ed. at Edinburgh univ., M.D. 1827; in practice at Manchester 1829, removed to Sheffield; became a director of railways and banks and was ruined; resided in London 1849–51; returned to Sheffield as a homœopathic practitioner 1851; alderman of Sheffield 1862 to death; author of The physiology of the fœtus, liver and spleen 1831; The vital statistics of Sheffield 1843; The nature and cure of consumption 1850; The domestic practice of homœopathy 1859 and 15 other books; conducted The Sheffield Homœopathic Lancet 1853. d. Sheffield 7 March 1865. G.M. xviii, 653 (1865).

HOLLAND, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (son of Peter Holland of Knutsford, Cheshire, surgeon). b. Knutsford 27 Oct. 1788; ed. at Newcastle upon Tyne 1799–1803, at Bristol 1804, and at Glasgow univ. 1804–6; studied medicine at Edin. Univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; domestic physician to Caroline, princess of Wales 1814; L.R.C.P. 1816, F.R.C.P. 1828 and V.P., Gulstonian lecturer 1830, censor 1832, 1836 and 1842, consiliarius 1836, 1839, 1844–46, 1850–52 and 1869; physician extraordinary to William iv. 16 April 1835; one of H.M.’s physicians extraordinary 8 Aug. 1837; one of prince Albert’s physicians extraordinary 1840; one of H.M.’s physicians in ordinary 22 Dec. 1852; cr. baronet 10 May 1853; F.G.S. 1809, F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1815; D.C.L. Ox. 1856; a manager of Royal Institution 4 Feb. 1861, president; author of Travels in the Ionian islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia 1815, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1819; Medical notes and reflections 1839, 3 ed. 1855; Recollections of past life 1872, 2 ed. 1872 and 6 other books. d. 25 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Oct. 1873. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 144–9 (1878); Barker’s Photographs of Medical men (1865) 65–8, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 458–95; Graphic, viii, 460, 466 (1873), portrait.

Note.—His 2 wife Saba whom he m. 20 March 1834, d. 2 Nov. 1866, she wrote A memoir of her father the Rev. Sydney Smith 2 vols. 1855, 4 ed. 1855.