Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HODGSON, William Nicholson (eld. son of Joseph Hodgson). b. Carlisle 14 Aug. 1801; M.P. Carlisle 1847–52, 1857–9 and 1865–8; M.P. East Cumberland 1868 to death; sheriff of Cumberland 1863. d. 33 Duke st. St. James’s, London 2 April 1876.
HODSON, Ven. George (youngest son of Mr. Hodson of Carlisle). b. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, of Magd. coll., M.A. 1813; Taxor of the university 1813; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham, Oct. 1824; archdeacon of Stafford, April 1829 to death; second residentiary canon and chancellor of Lichfield cath. 28 June 1833 to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1851 to death; author of Twelve sermons on Christian temper and experience 1825; Morning discourses at Christ Church, Birmingham 1832; The church of Rome’s traffic in pardons 1838; The finished course 1855. d. Riva on the Lago di Garda 13 Aug. 1855.
HODSON, George A. (son of George A. Hodson, musical composer of numerous pieces). b. Dublin 1822; first appeared on stage at Bath about 1839; actor of Irish characters; played Teddy the Tiler at Covent Garden 1841; lessee of Cheltenham theatre; lessee of theatre royal, Gloucester to his death. d. Bath 27 June 1869. Era 4 July 1869 p. 11 col. 4.
HODSON, James. b. Streat Place near Ditchling, Sussex 30 Oct. 1808; miller at Brighton; first played at Lord’s 10 June 1839 when he was no-balled for being too high; round armed bowler; resided at Hunston near Chichester from 1856. d. 17 March 1880. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, ii, 495 (1862).
HODSON, Margaret (eld. dau. of Allen Holford of Davenham, by Margaret Wrench of Chester, authoress). b. 1778; author of Wallace or the fight of Falkirk, a romance 1809, 2 ed. 1810; Poems 1811; Margaret of Anjou 1816; Warbeck of Wolfstein 1820. (m. 16 Oct. 1820 Septimus Hodson, rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire d. 12 Dec. 1833); a friend of Southey, Coleridge and Landor; also published The lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish of Don Manuel Josef Quintana 1832. d. Sharrow cottage, Dawlish, Devon 11 Sep. 1852. N. & Q. 2 S. i 113, 4 S. ix 534, x 94, xi 411.
HODSON, William Stephen Raikes (3 son of Ven. George Hodson 1787–1855, archdeacon of Stafford). b. Maisemore court near Gloucester 19 March 1821; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1844; entered H.E.I.C. service Sep. 1845; with the 2nd grenadiers engaged in Sikh war; adjutant of corps of guides 1847; assist. commissary at Umritsur in the Punjab 1849; commander of corps of guides Sep. 1852, removed 1855; two inquiries made as to his conduct, the last being favourable 1856; raised and commanded a regiment of irregular horse known throughout the mutiny of 1857 as Hodson’s horse; managed the intelligence department 1857; pursued and captured the king of Delhi 21 Sep. 1857; captured and shot with his own hands the 3 princes of Delhi 22 Sep. 1857; shot by a native in the begum’s palace at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Lucknow 12 March 1858. Twelve years of a soldier’s life in India, By W. R. Hodson 1859; Rev. G. H. Hodson’s Hodson of Hodson’s Horse (1883); R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence, i 309, ii 14, 538; Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny, vols. i-iv (1888–89).
HOFFMEISTER, Sir William Carter (son of Charles William Hoffmeister, collector of customs, Belfast). b. Portsmouth 6 July 1817; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1855; L.R.C.P. 1861; surgeon apothecary to the Queen at Osborne; surgeon Royal yacht squadron; knighted at Osborne 26 Aug. 1884. d. Clifton house, Cowes, Isle of Wight 29 July 1890.
HOGAN, John (son of a builder). b. Tallow, co. Waterford, Oct. 1800; with Sir Thomas Deane, architect Cork 1815–22; decorated R.C. chapel, Cork with 44 wooden figures of saints 1822; studied in Rome 1823–9; first works in marble, A shepherd boy 1824 and a Drunken Faun; retired to Ireland 1829; his ‘Dead Christ’ forms altar piece of R.C. chapel, Clarendon st. Dublin; patronised by R.C. clergy; made statues of D. O’Connell and others, and busts of Father Mathew, &c.; exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. London 1833–50. d. Dublin 20 March 1858. His widow Cornelia granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858. Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxv, 72 (1850), portrait; Art Journal, ii, 376 (1850), portrait.
HOGAN, John Sheridan. b. near Dublin 1815; sent to Toronto, Canada 1826; newsboy for Canadian Wesleyan 1826, foreman, then on staff of writers; studied law, attorney 1844 in practice at Hamilton; sent articles on Canadian politics to Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 1850; established United Empire newspaper at Toronto; accused of complicity in burning steamer Caroline, but discharged, brought a claim for indemnity which was not entertained; first prize for an essay on Canada and her resources, at Paris exhibition 1855; editor Toronto Daily Colonist 1856 and for some years; member for county of Grey in Canadian parliament 1857; murdered near Toronto, Dec. 1859. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 229 (1887).
HOGARTH, George, b. Edinburgh 1783; a writer to the signet; a violinist and composer; a contributor to Edinburgh Courant; a writer on Morning Chronicle, London 1831, afterwards editor; musical critic to Daily News 1846–66 and also to Illust. London News; sec. to Philharmonic soc. 1850–64; compiled the Houseland Narrative 1850–61; author of Musical history, biography and criticism 1835; Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany and England 2 vols. 1851; his musical publications were The musical herald 2 vols. 1846; School music arranged for three voices 1852. d. at res. of his dau. Mrs. R. C. Roney, 10 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 12 Feb. 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 81 (1870).
HOGARTH, Most Rev. William. b. Dodding Green, Kendal, Westmoreland 25 March 1786; entered catholic college at Crook hall near Consett 29 Aug. 1796, this college was subsequently removed to Ushaw; received tonsure and four minor orders at Durham 19 March 1807, ordained sub-deacon 2 April 1808, deacon 14 Dec. 1808, priest 20 Dec. 1809; a professor and general prefect at Ushaw college; chaplain at Cliffe hall 31 Oct. 1816 to 9 Nov. 1824; transferred to the mission at Darlington 9 Nov. 1824 where he remained to death; vicar general to bishops Briggs, Mostyn and Riddell; vicar apostolic of the northern district, and bishop of Samosata in partibus 28 July 1848, consecrated in St. Cuthbert’s chapel, Ushaw 24 Aug. 1848; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 29 Sep. 1850 to death. d. Paradise row, Darlington 29 Jany. 1866. bur. St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 6 Feb. Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii, 346, 357, 410–13 (1877); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 321–23 (1887).
HOGG, Henry (son of a manufacturer of hosiery). b. Nottingham 1831; solicitor at Nottingham to death; wrote a number of short poems in the Christian Miscellany, also wrote hymns and carols some of which he set to music; published Poems, Nottingham 1852; Songs for the Times 1856. d. Nottingham 1874. Wylie’s Old and New Nottingham (1853) 247.
HOGG, James. b. Leitrim, Ireland; contributed to Dublin University Mag. and New York Albion; editor and proprietor of New Brunswick Reporter at Fredericton to death; author of Poems. St. John, N.B. 1825; Poems, religious, moral and sentimental. d. Fredericton, New Brunswick 12 June 1866. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192.
HOGG, James (son of James Hogg). b. near Edinburgh 26 March 1806; apprenticed to James Muirhead, printer, Edin. 1818; printer and publisher in Edin. 1837–58; edited Hogg’s Weekly Instructor, first number 1 March 1845, title changed to The Instructor 1849, afterwards to Titan, last number Dec. 1859 altogether 29 vols.; publisher in London 1858 to July 1867; published De Quincey’s Collected Works 14 vols. 1857, new ed. 15 vols. 1862; Churchman’s Family Mag. and London Society projected by his son Feb. 1862. d. The Acacia, Crescent road, St. John’s, Kent 14 March 1888. H. A. Page’s [i.e. A. H. Japp’s] Life of T. de Quincey (1877) i 396, ii 1–33, 339; Nicoll’s Landmarks of English literature (1883) 454–5.
HOGG, Sir James Weir, 1 Baronet (eld. son of William Hogg of Lisburn, co. Antrim 1754–1824). b. Stoneyford, co. Antrim 7 Sep. 1790; scholar of Trinity coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810; student of Gray’s inn, London 20 May 1811; went to Calcutta 1814, practised at the bar to 1822; registrar in supreme court, Calcutta 1822–33; returned to England, June 1833 with a large fortune; M.P. Beverley 1835–47; M.P. Honiton 1847–57; director of H.E.I.C. 11 Sep. 1839, deputy chairman 1845–6, 1850–1 and 1851–2, chairman 1846–7 and 1852–3; cr. baronet 20 July 1846; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1872, vice president 1860; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872. d. 11 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 May 1876, personalty sworn under £350,000, 8 July 1876. I.L.N. iv, 268 (1844), portrait; Times 29 May 1876 p. 12.
HOGG, John (2 son of John Hogg of Norton house near Stockton on Tees, barrister, d. 1840). b. 21 March 1800; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., scholar 1820, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827, fellow 1827; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; F.L.S. 1823; F.R.S. 20 June 1839; mem. of Royal Soc. of Lit. 1843, foreign sec. and vice pres. 1866; F.R.G.S., sec. 1849–50; author of A catalogue of Sicilian plants 1842; Letters from abroad to a friend at Cambridge 1844, and 40 articles in periodical publications. d. Norton house 16 Sep. 1869. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv, 298–9.
HOGG, Margaret (dau. of Mr. Phillips of Langbridgemoor, Annandale, farmer). (m. 28 April 1820 James Hogg 1770–1835 the Eltrick shepherd); friend of Sir Walter Scott; received a present of £130 from Cincinnati 1853; civil list pension of £50, 3 Jany. 1854. d. Bellevue place, Linlithgow 15 Nov. 1870 aged about 80. C. Rogers’ Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 256, 265–78.
HOGG, Thomas Jefferson (brother of John Hogg 1800–69). b. Norton 24 May 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox. from which he was expelled 25 March 1811 for declining to disavow a publication entitled The necessity of Atheism by Shelley; made acquaintance of Shelley at Oxford 1810, which he kept to his death 1822; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1817; a municipal corporation comr. for England and Wales 1833–34; revising barrister for Northumberland and Berwick 20 years; came into £2000 under Shelley’s will in 1844; author of Memoirs of Prince Alesy Haimatoff, Translated by John Brown, esq. [i.e. T. J. Hogg], A novel 1813; Two hundred and nine days, or the Journal of a traveller on the continent 2 vols. 1827; Life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols 1858, never completed. d. 33 Clifton road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Aug. 1862. Durham County Advertiser 5 Sept. 1862 p. 5; G.M. xiii, 506, 643 (1862).
HOGGAN, John (4 son of major George Hoggan of Waterside, Dumfries). b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1807; colonel 45 Bengal N.I. 11 July 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Delna, Bengal 13 Nov. 1861.
HOGGE, Charles. b. 1814; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1829; colonel R.A. 20 Feb. 1860 to death; C.B. 17 June 1858. d. Erith 18 Sep. 1865.
HOGGINS, Christopher Argyle. b. 1793; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830; went northern circuit; Q.C. March 1850; bencher of his inn 1850. d. 3 Plowden buildings, Temple 19 June 1871.
HOLBERTON, Ven. Robert (son of Robert Holberton of Torr house, Devon). b. 1800; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R. of St. John, Antigua 1827–50; archdeacon of Antigua 1843–50; V. of Norbiton, Surrey 1850–75; C. of Walton-on-the-Hill 1876–8. d. Devon lodge, Kew 14 June 1886.
HOLCROFT, Thomas (son of Thomas Holcroft, dramatist 1745–1809). Journalist in London 1822 to death; Paris correspondent for the Morning Herald; sec. to the Asiatic Society; edited an East Indian paper in India some years. d. 37 Woburn place, London 6 Feb. 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 425 (1852).
HOLDEN, George. b. 1800; professor of music; organist St. George’s ch. Liverpool to death; composer of anthems, songs, etc.; wrote Smiling Mirth. d. 22 Rodney st. Liverpool 5 Dec. 1856.
HOLDEN, Rev. George (son of Rev. George Holden, master of Horton-in-Ribblesdale gram. sch.) b. Horton 1783; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A.; P.C. of Maghull near Liverpool 1811 to death; V. of Horton, 1821–5; author of An attempt towards an improved version of the Proverbs 1819; The christian expositor or guide to the New Testament 1830; An essay on the angels of the church 1862; and 13 other books. d. Maghull 19 March 1865; his library and half his property left to clergy of Ripon, library kept in palace at Ripon. G.M. xviii, 657 (1865).
HOLDEN, George. b. Walsall, Staffs. 29 Nov. 1821; beat C. Davis at Sutton Coldfield 24 Jany. 1843 in 73 rounds; beaten by Paddy Gill on Warwickshire Moor 29 Oct. 1844 in 21 rounds for £50; beat Bill Stevens at Calf Heath near Wolverhampton 14 July 1845 in 56 rounds for £25; beat Bob Smith at the Clock, Bickenhall 1 April 1846 in 84 rounds for £50; one of the gamest men who ever lived; licensed victualler, Wolverhampton; landlord of the Malt shovel inn, Walsall. d. Wood’s Fold, New st. Walsall 4 Feb. 1889. Sporting Life 9 Feb. 1889 p. 7.
Note.—He had 3 brothers Jem, Ted and John all pugilists, his son George Holden, junior, also was well known, he fought Charley Linch, Jack Lead and Peter Morris in London.
HOLDEN, George Kenyon. b. Worcester 1806; attorney and solicitor; emigrated to Sydney, Australia 1831; private sec. to Sir Richard Bourke 1831–7; crown prosecutor 1837; solicitor in practice at Sydney from 1838; member of legislative council 1861; examiner of titles 1862. d. Rockton, Sydney 16 April 1874. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 94.
HOLDEN, Rev. John. b. Bonds, Garstang, Lancs. 6 May 1797; ed. at Stonyhurst and Oscott colleges 1812–25; priest 6 Oct. 1825; missioner at Thetford, Norfolk 1825–39; member of Soc. of Jesus 21 Feb. 1840; missioner at Spinkhill, Derbyshire 1842, at Lowergate, Clitheroe, Lancs. 1843 and at Lincoln 1847–59; procurator at St. Bruno’s coll. St. Asaph 1859–61; author of A discharge of grape shot against “Authorities to prove that Church of Rome prohibits reading of the Scriptures.” By the Rev. T. D. Atkinson 1826. d. Mount St. Mary coll. Spinkhill, Derbyshire 30 June 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 339–40 (1887).
HOLDEN, Moses. b. Bolton 21 Nov. 1777; a landscape gardener, then a weaver; constructed an orrery and a magic lantern 1814–5; gave astronomical lectures in north of England from 1815; assisted in establishing Preston Institution; freedom of the borough given him 1834; published A small celestial atlas or maps of the visible heavens in the latitude of Britain 1818, 4 ed. 1840; An almanac 1835, &c. d. Preston 3 June 1864.
HOLDEN, Henry. b. 1810; a butcher at Birmingham; landlord of the Rodney inn, Coleshill st. Birmingham about 1840; built a small music hall there, which became the leading one in the Midlands, built a large music hall there, and a brewery 1857, managed his hall down to 1863 or 1864. d. Lansdowne house, Malvern 27 Jany. 1880. Era 1 Feb. 1880 p. 4.
HOLDFORTH, James (son of Joseph Holdforth, silk manufacturer Leeds). b. Leeds 14 June 1778; J.P. for Leeds 1836; mayor of Leeds Nov. 1838, first Roman catholic mayor since the Reformation; president of Leeds Catholic institute; supported a ragged school in Leeds. d. Burley hill, Leeds 13 July 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 346–7 (1887); Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis (1865) 498.
HOLDING, Frederick (son of Henry Holding, painter). b. 1817; painter at Manchester; illustrated Southey’s Battle of Blenheim 1864 and other books; scene painter Theatre royal and Prince’s theatre, Manchester. d. 1874. Manchester City News 3 May 1890.
HOLDING, Henry James (brother of preceding). b. Salford, Lancs., Nov. 1833; a calico printer’s pattern designer; a painter of marine and torrent scenery in oil and water colours; exhibited in Manchester, Liverpool and London; his chief works were, Finding the body of Rufus by the charcoal burners 1862 and Bettwys-y-Coed 1872. d. Paris 2 Aug. 1872.
HOLE, Lewis (son of Rev. Wm. Hole, archdeacon of Barnstaple, d. 26 Oct. 1791 aged 82). b. Strodeley, Devon 16 Jany. 1779; entered R.N. 1793, first lieut. of the Revenge at Trafalgar; captain 4 Dec. 1813; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Newport near Barnstaple 16 July 1870. I.L.N. lvii, 131 (1870); O’Byrne (1849) 529.
HOLKER, Sir John (son of Samuel Holker of Bury, Lancs.) b. Bury 24 March 1828; ed. at Bury gr. sch.; barrister G.I. 9 June 1854, bencher 15 April 1868, treasurer 1875; practised at Manchester 1854–64; removed to London 1864; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; much engaged in patent cases; M.P. Preston 1872–82; solicitor general 20 April 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1874; attorney general 25 Nov. 1875 to May 1880, his income during 1875–77 was £22,000 a year; lord justice of court of appeal 14 Jany. 1882, resigned 19 May 1882. d. 46 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 24 May 1882. bur. St. Cuthbert’s church, Lytham 30 May. A generation of Judges, By Their Reporter (1886) 119–27; I.L.N. lxiv, 493 (1874), portrait; Times 25 May 1882 p. 9, cols. 3–4.
HOLL, Charlton. b. 1805; entered Madras army 1820; colonel 15 Madras N.I. 11 July 1861 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 39 Royal crescent, Notting hill, London 4 Dec. 1878.
HOLL, Francis (4 son of William Holl, engraver 1771–1838). b. Bayham st. Camden Town, London 23 March 1815; pupil of his father; engaged 25 years engraving pictures belonging to the Queen; exhibited 17 engravings at R.A. 1856–79; A.R.A. Jany. 1883; his principal works were, The Stocking Loom by A. Elmore, and The coming of age in the olden time, and The railway station, both by W. P. Frith; portraits of him by his son Frank Holl were exhibited at the R.A. 1868 and 1884. d. Elm house, Milford near Godalming 14 Jany. 1884. bur. Highgate cemetery 19 Jany.
HOLL, Francis Montague, known as Frank Holl (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 St. James’s terrace, Kentish Town, London 4 July 1845; studied at R.A. schools, silver medallist 1862–3, gold medallist 1863, travelling student of R.A. 1868–9; worked for The Graphic 1874–6; portrait painter 1876 to death, painted 198 portraits including nearly all celebrated men of the day 1879–88; A.R.A. 19 June 1878, R.A. 29 March 1883; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 26 March 1883. d. The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London 31 July 1888. Universal Review 15 Aug. 1888 pp. 478–93, portrait; Graphic 3 May 1879, portrait, and 11 Aug. 1888, portrait.
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.
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.
HOLLINWORTH, John Ibbetson. Entered navy June 1795; retired captain 3 April 1811; retired admiral 9 June 1860. d. Southsea 28 Dec. 1861 aged 79.
HOLLOND, Rev. Edmund (eld. son of William Hollond of H.E.I.C.) Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; succeeded his uncle 1845; lord of manor of Middleton Austin; resided at Benhall lodge, Saxmundham, Suffolk; a great Evangelical; author of Israel’s pre-millenial future or the testimony of scripture as to Israel’s return and what awaits him in his own land 1875; patron of 8 livings. d. 33 Hyde park gardens, London 18 March 1884 in 83 year.
HOLLOND, Ellen Julia (dau. of Thomas Teed of Stanmore hall, Middlesex). b. Madras 1822. (m. 18 March 1840 Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings, d. 1877); her salon in Paris frequented by the leading liberals 1840–77; started the first crèche in London 1844; founded an English nurses’ home in Paris with a branch at Nice; sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer’s picture of St. Augustine and his mother 1846; her portrait by Scheffer painted 1852 is in National gallery; author of Channing, sa vie and ses œuvres 1857; La vie de village en Angleterre 1862; Les Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société 1870. d. Stanmore hall 29 Nov. 1884. Journal des Débats 6 Dec. 1884.