HOLLAND, James (son of a potter). b. Burslem 17 Oct. 1800; painter of flowers on pottery and porcelain; went to London 1819; painter in water colours and oil; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 91 at B.I. and 108 at Suffolk st. 1815–67; Assoc. Soc. Painters in water colours 1835–43; member of Soc. of British Artists 1843–8; member Water Colour Soc. 1856; paid many visits abroad from 1830; drew for the Landscape and other annuals 1839 etc.; one of the finest colourists of the English school; his views in Venice fetch large prices; several of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. London 12 Feb. or Dec. 1870. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 219; Bryan’s Dict. of painters, i, 671 (1886).
HOLLAND, John (son of John Holland of Richmond hill, Handsworth, Yorkshire, optical instrument maker). b. in Sheffield Park 14 March 1794; edited the Sheffield Iris 1825–32, the Newcastle Courant 1832–3; joint editor of Sheffield Mercury 1835–48; presented by ten gentlemen of Sheffield with an annuity of £100, 1870; author of Sheffield Park, a descriptive poem. Sheffield 1820; The history of the town and parish of Worksop, Nottingham 1826; The Psalmists of Britain 1843, and 15 other books; author with James Everett of Memoirs of the life and writings of James Montgomery 7 vols. 1854–6. d. in Sheffield Park 28 Dec. 1872. W. Hudson’s Life of John Holland (1874), portrait; Reliquary, xv, 145.
HOLLAND, John (son of a house painter and picture dealer). b. 15 Vernon st. Nottingham 14 Dec. 1829; a self taught artist; resided in Todmorden district, Lancs., then in London, afterwards at Trebray lodge, Tintagel, Cornwall; sent 3 pictures The Storm, After the Storm, and The Wreckers to the exhibition at the Nottingham Castle Art museum 1868; a most rapid painter, only excelled in speed by Smith the painter of waterfalls. d. Trebray lodge, Feb. 1886.
HOLLAND, Rev. Samuel (son of Nicholas Holland of Greenwich, Kent). b. Greenwich 1772; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1799, fellow 30 Sep. 1800, censor 1803; physician to the Middlesex hospital 15 Jany. 1801 to 1806 when he quitted the profession; ordained deacon and priest 1806; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1806–46; R. of Beaudesert, Warcs. 1806 to death; preb. of Thorney, Chichester cath. 1817; precentor of Chicester cath. and preb. of Oving 1825 to death; author of The preaching of the regular clergy, illustrated and defended 1813, 6 ed. 1817 and of several sermons. d. 33 Regency square, Brighton 16 April 1857 aged 85. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, ii, 470 (1878).
HOLLAND, Rev. Thomas Agar (eld. son of the preceding). b. 16 Jany. 1803; ed. at Westminster sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; V. of Oving, Sussex 1827–38; R. of Greatham, Hants. 1838–46; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1846 to death; author of Dryburgh Abbey and other poems 1826, 4 ed. 1884 and of a History of Poynings in the Trans. of Sussex Archæological Society for 1863. d. Poynings Rectory 18 Oct. 1888.
HOLLAND, Thomas Seward. b. 1827; M.D. Edin. 1850; M.R.C.S. England 1850; assist. physician Renkioi hospital in the Dardanelles 1855–6; author of Pathological anatomy considered in its relations to medical science 1852, and papers in medical journals. d. at his lodgings, Lambeth 16 June 1856.
HOLLINGS, James Francis. b. 1806; second master proprietary sch. Leicester 1837; proprietor and editor of Leicestershire Mercury 7 years; member of town council Leicester, and Mayor; one of the founders of Leicester Literary and Philos. Soc., president several times; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1851; author of The life of Gustavus Adolphus 1838; The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero 1839; The history of Leicester during the civil war 1840; Roman Leicester 1855; Lord Macaulay 1860; hanged himself at Stonygate, Leicester 15 Sep. 1862. Leicestershire Mercury 20 Sep. 1862 p. 5.
HOLLINGWORTH, Ven. John Banks. b. 1779; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814; fellow of his coll. 1804; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1806; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks, London 1814 to death; Norrisian professor of Div. at Cam. 1824–38; archdeacon of Huntingdon 25 Feb. 1828 to death; author of Heads of lectures on divinity delivered in the university of Cambridge 1825, 3 ed. 1835, and charges and sermons. d. Rectory house, St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 9 Feb. 1856. G.M. xlv, 430–1 (1856).
HOLLINS, John (son of Thomas Hollins, a painter on glass). b. Birmingham 1 June 1798; exhibited 101 pictures at R.A., 35 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1819–55; removed to London 1822; studied in Italy 1825–7; A.R.A. 1842; historical, figure, and landscape painter, introduced portraits into some of his historical pictures. d. 47 Berners st., London 7 March 1855. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 220; Literary Gazette 17 March 1855 p. 170.
HOLLINS, Peter (eld. son of William Hollins, architect and sculptor 1754–1843). b. Birmingham 1800; ed. as a sculptor and assisted his father; in Chantrey’s studio; exhibited 44 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1822–71; resided Old Bond st. London 1828–43, then returned to Birmingham where he erected statues of Sir R. Peel and Sir Rowland Hill; V.P. of Soc. of Arts, Birmingham. d. 17 Great Hampton st. Birmingham 16 Aug. 1886, portrait in Birmingham Art gallery.