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HODGSON, STUDHOLME JOHN (_son of general John Hodgson 1757–1846_).
_b._ 1 April 1805; ensign 50 regt. 30 Dec. 1819; served in 45, 39
and 19 regiments in Ceylon, India and the first Burmese war;
commander of the forces in Ceylon 1865–69; commander of troops in
Straits Settlement; administrator of civil government of Ceylon;
colonel 54 regt. 13 March 1868; colonel 4 regt. 21 Nov. 1876 to
death; general 2 Feb. 1876; retired 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Argyll hall,
Torquay 31 Aug. 1890.

HODGSON, THOMAS. _b._ Lancaster, Jany. 1800; land surveyor,
Lancaster 1821; made a survey of the county of Westmoreland
1823–5, concerning which he had a paper war with G. & J.
Greenwood, map publishers; author of _Plan of the county of
Westmoreland_ 1828, another issue with the geological strata
coloured by Adam Sedgwick is dated 1841. _d._ Lancaster 1869.

HODGSON, THOMAS. Master Badsworth hounds for 3 seasons, of
Holderness hounds 16 seasons and of Quorn hounds 2 seasons;
registrar of deeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. _d._ Snydale hall,
May 1863 aged 70. _Sporting Rev., June 1863 pp._ 461–3.

HODGSON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1745; studied medicine and botany in Holland;
M.D.; tried at Old Bailey 9 Dec. 1793 for proposing toast of The
French Republic and comparing the king to a German hog butcher,
imprisoned in Newgate 2 years; author of _The picture of the
Times_ 1795; _The commonwealth of reason_ 1795; _The case of W.
Hodgson now confined in Newgate_ 1795; _A critical grammar of the
French and English language_ 1819; _Flora’s cabinet in which the
relation of chemistry to the flower garden is elucidated_ 1835;
_The life of Napoleon Bonaparte_ 1841. _d._ Hemingford ter.
Islington 2 March 1851 aged 106. _G.M. xxxv_, 560 (1851); _N. & Q.
14 June 1884 p._ 475.

HODGSON, WILLIAM BALLANTYNE (_son of William Hodgson a working
printer_). _b._ Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1815; matric. at Edin. univ. Nov.
1829; a lecturer on literature, education and phrenology in
Fifeshire; sec. Mechanics’ instit. Liverpool 1 June 1839;
principal of Liverpool institute 1844; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 11
March 1846; principal Chorlton high sch. Manchester 1847–51;
lectured on economic science R. Instit. London 1854; assist. comr.
of inquiry into primary education 1858; professor of commercial
law Edin. univ. 17 July 1871; author of _Lectures on education_
1837; _The education of girls_ 1864–6, _2 ed._ 1869; _The true
scope of economic science_ 1870; _Turgot, his life, times and
opinions_ 1870 and other works. _d._ at Brussels while attending
educational congress 24 Aug. 1880. _Meiklejohn’s Life and letters
of W. B. Hodgson_ (1885), _portrait_; _Grant’s University of
Edinburgh, ii_, 466–9 (1884).

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._

HOLLOND, ROBERT (_youngest son of William Hollond of Grosvenor
place, London, and Bengal civil service, d. 14 Feb. 1836_). _b._ 5
Jany. 1808; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1834; M.P. for Hastings 1837–52; in company
with Charles Green and Monck Mason made at his own expense a
voyage in the Nassau balloon from London to Weilburg, Nassau 7–8
Nov. 1836; John Hollins painted a picture of the 3 persons with
the balloon in the back ground 1836. _d._ Paris 26 Dec. 1877,
personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 Feb. 1878. _Hatton Turnor’s
Astra Castra_ (1865) 139–58; _Monck Mason’s Aeronautica_ (1838)
1–98, _portrait_.

HOLLOWAY, JAMES LEWIS (_son of Benjamin Holloway of Lee place,
Charlbury, Oxon._) _b._ 2 July 1824; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1847;
assistant surgeon 17 March 1848; principal medical officer at Cape
of Good Hope; surgeon general 12 March 1882 to death; C.B. 27 Nov.
1879. _d._ Netley 19 April 1883.

HOLLOWAY, SIR THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1810; 2
lieut. R.M. 17 March 1825; at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served
in China 1857 when he was wounded; A.D.C. to the Queen 27 Feb.
1857 to 1 July 1863; colonel 2nd commandant R.M. 25 Feb. 1858,
colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870;
C.B. 18 June 1858, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Farlington near
Portsmouth 21 July 1875.

HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Holloway, baker and publican_). _b._
Devonport 22 Sep. 1800; ed. at Camborne and Penzance; removed to
London 1828; merchant and foreign agent 1836; commenced
advertising his pills and ointment 15 Oct. 1837, was spending
£50,000 a year in advertising 1883; directions for use of his
medicines were printed in almost all known languages; at 244
Strand, London 1838, removed to 533 New Oxford st. 1867; employed
100 people; made a large fortune; built and endowed at cost of
£700,000 Holloway coll. for ladies at Mount Lee, Egham hill,
Surrey, opened 30 June 1866; erected a sanatorium for mentally
afflicted of lower middle class, opened 15 June 1885. _d._
Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Berks. 26 Dec. 1883. _I.L.N. 5 Jany.
1884 p._ 24, _portrait_; _Graphic 5 Jany. 1884 p._ 5, _portrait_;
_Some memories as to the origin of Holloway coll._ (1886).

HOLM, JOHN DIEDERICK. A well known phrenologist; executor of J. G.
Spurzheim the German phrenologist (_b._ 1776, _d._ 1832). _d._
High st. Highgate 24 Oct. 1856 aged 84.

HOLMAN, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Lattimer_). _b._ England 1798; appeared
at Charleston theatre 1817. (_m._ (1) 22 Aug. 1817 Joseph George
Holman, actor, who _d._ 24 Aug. 1817, the writer of numerous
plays); appeared in New York singing The soldier tired of war’s
alarms, and Bishop’s Echo song 8 July 1817; (_m._ (2) March 1819
Isaac Star Clawson); (_m._ (3) in 1824 Charles W. Sandford, lawyer
and general of militia); appeared at her husband’s house, the
Lafayette theatre, Oct. 1826; last played in Park theatre, New
York as Maria in _Of age to-morrow_, June 1832. _d._ New York city
1 Sep. 1859. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 181; _Ireland’s
New York stage, i_, 290 336 (1866).

HOLMAN, JAMES (_son of Mr. Holman of Fore st. Exeter, chemist and
druggist_). _b._ Exeter 15 Oct. 1786; entered navy 7 Dec. 1798,
lieut. 27 April 1807, served till Nov. 1810 when he was invalided
and became totally blind; a naval knight of Windsor 29 Sep. 1812;
travelled over greater part of Europe 1819–24 and round the world
1827–32; F.R.S.; author of _A narrative of a journey through
France, Italy, Savoy, &c._ 1822, with _portrait_; _Travels through
Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, &c._ _2 vols._ 1825, with
portrait, 4 ed. _2 vols._ 1834. _d._ at his lodgings near the
Minories, London 28 July 1857. _Reynolds’ Miscellany, x_, 9
(1853), _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1858) 26–30;
_People’s Journal, iv_, 213, _portrait_.

HOLMAN, JOHN. Steeple chaser; won royal birthday steeple chase at
Worcester on The Page 1843; bred a large number of successful
steeple chasers. _d._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1888. _Baily’s Mag., Feb.
1888 pp._ 488–9.

HOLME, BRYAN (_son of Wm. Holme of Thurland castle, Lancs._)
_baptised_ at Tunstal, Lancs. 29 Dec. 1776; articled to John
Baldwin of Lancaster, solicitor; admitted solicitor Jany. 1800; a
managing clerk in office of Bleasdale and Alexander of Hatton
court, London about 1803, a partner in the firm at Hatton court
and New Inn 1806–16; partner with Alexander at New Inn 1816–21,
with Frampton and Loftus 1821–36, with Loftus and Young 1836 to
death; projected “The Law Institution,” Chancery Lane 2 June 1825,
which became “The Incorporated Law Society” by a new charter
granted 5 June 1845; a whole length portrait of him by H. W.
Pickersgill, R.A. was placed in the Society’s hall about 1836.
_d._ 13 Brunswick sq. London 15 July 1856. _Legal Observer 23 Aug.
1856 pp._ 281–5.

HOLME, THOMAS WINN (_son of Thomas Holme_). _b._ Kendal 3 March
1828; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1841–3, and at Manchester art sch.;
managed a woollen mill near Kendal, and then powder mills at
Sedgwick, near Leven’s Park; a painter; author of _Poems and
prose_ 1874. _d._ Kendal 20 May 1876. _Nodal’s Bibliog. of
Ackworth sch._ (1889) 16.

HOLMES, ALFRED (_son of Thomas Holmes of Lincoln_). _b._ London 9
Nov. 1837; learnt the violin from his father; with his brother
Henry Holmes made a series of concert tours in Belgium 1855,
Germany 1856, Austria 1857, Sweden 1857–9, Denmark 1860, Holland
1861; settled in Paris 1864, where he established a quartet party;
produced at St. Petersburg his symphony _Jeanne d’ Arc_ April
1868, which was performed in 1870 at Théâtre Italien, Paris, and
at Crystal Palace, Sydenham 27 Feb. 1875; composed symphonies _The
Youth of Shakespeare_, _The siege of Paris_ 1870, _Robin Hood_,
_Charles XII_, and _Romeo and Juliet_; an opera in 5 acts called
_Inez de Castro_ 1869; overtures _The Cid_ and _The Muses_; _Two
nocturnes for the violin and piano_, _Leipzig_ 1857. _d._ Paris 4
March 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 315 (1876), _portrait_.

HOLMES, REV. ARTHUR. Ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
Bell sch. 1856, Craven sch. 1856, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862; fellow of
his coll. 1860–62; C. of All Saint’s, Cam. 1860–61; lecturer of
St. John’s coll. 1860–73 and of Clare coll. 1864–73; senior fellow
and dean of Clare coll. 1873 to death; deputy public orator of
Cam. 1867, Lady Margaret preacher 1868, select preacher 1868–69;
Cambridge preacher at chapel royal 1869–71; general editor of the
_Catena Classicorum series_ 1867 etc.; published _The Midias of
Demosthenes with notes_ 1862; _Demosthenes De Corona_ 1867; _The
Nemeian odes of Pindar_ 1867; cut his throat at Clare coll.
Cambridge 17 April 1875. _Cambridge Chronicle 24 April 1875 p._ 6.

HOLMES, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; ed. at Enfield; apprenticed to R. B.
Seeley, bookseller; studied music under Vincent Novello; taught
the piano in schools; wrote musical criticisms for _The Atlas_
from 1829 and later for _The Spectator_; wrote articles in
_Fraser’s Mag._ and _Musical Times_; author of _A ramble among the
musicians of Germany_ 1828, _3 ed._ 18 ; _The life of Mozart_
1845; _Analytical and thematic index of Mozart’s pianoforte works_
1852; _A critical essay on the Requiem of Mozart_ 1854; _Life of
H. Purcell_. _d._ 4 Sep. 1859.

HOLMES, JAMES. _b._ 1777; apprenticed to an engraver; member of Soc.
of Painters in Water-colours 1813–22; assisted to establish Soc.
of British Artists, member 1829–50; also a miniature painter; 2 of
his portraits of Lord Byron were engraved; a personal friend of
George iv. _d._ Shropshire 24 Feb. 1860. _Redgrave’s Dict. of
Artists_ (1878) 221.

HOLMES, JAMES. _b._ Exeter 1789 or 1790; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.;
apprenticed to Thomas Besley of Exeter, printer 16 Sep. 1806;
printer at 4 Took’s court, Chancery lane, London, March 1825 to
1869; started the _Court Journal_ with Henry Colburn 25 April
1829; bought _The Athenæum_ for £200, 7 Jany. 1830, joint
proprietor with C. W. Dilkie 20 Sep. 1831, printed it 1829–69.
_d._ 4 July 1873. _bur._ Kensal green cemetery 11 July.

HOLMES, JOHN (_son of Nathaniel Holmes d. Derby 18 Dec. 1840_). _b._
Deptford, Kent 17 July 1800; bookseller Derby; temporary assistant
MSS. department Br. Museum 15 Jany. 1830, senior assistant April
1837, assistant keeper 6 May 1850 to death; adviser of 4 earl of
Ashburnham in formation of his collection of MSS. which was sold
1883–4; author of _A catalogue of manuscripts, maps, charts in the
British Museum_ 1844. _d._ 4 Park ter. Highgate, London 1 April
1854, his library sold 15 June 1854. _G.M. ii_, 87–8 (1854).

HOLMES, JOHN. _b._ Rossshire, Scotland, March 1789; emigrated to
Nova Scotia 1803; sat in Nova Scotia assembly 1836–47, 1851–8, in
legislative council 1858–67; senator in Dominion parliament 1867.
_d._ 1870. _Appleton’s American Biography iii_, 242 (1887).

HOLMES, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., 3
wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1840, fellow and tutor
of his coll. to 1819; head master Leeds gram. sch. 1830–53; C. of
Trinity ch. Leeds 1830–45; author of _The duty of a Christian
state to support a national church establishment_ 1834. _d._ Leeds
14 June 1854. _Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis_ (1865) 454–5.

HOLMES, REV. PETER (_1 son of Walter Holmes of Bickleigh,
Plymouth_). _b._ Bickleigh 1815; ed. at Plymouth gram. sch. and at
Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, D.D. 1859; C. of Sheepstor,
Devon 1840–3; head master Plymouth gram. sch. 1840–54; diocesan
inspector of schools, deanery of Plympton 7 years; kept a private
school at Plymouth; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1841; author of _Observations on
the standard of doctrine in the Church of England_ 1848; _Bishop
Bull’s Defensio fidei Nicænæ_. _A translation 2 vols._ 1851–2;
contributed to Anglo-Catholic library, Christian Remembrancer,
Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia, Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian
library. _d._ Wellington villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 11 Oct. 1878;
left a valuable library. _Academy ii_, 428 (1878).

HOLMES, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Holmes of Belfast_). _b._ Dublin 1765;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1787; called to bar in Ireland
1795; imprisoned some months, being suspected of complicity with
his brother-in-law, Robert Emmet’s rising 1803; had the largest
practice in the Irish courts, made upwards of £100,000; refused
offices of crown prosecutor, King’s counsel, and solicitor
general; author of _A demonstration of the necessity of the
legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland_ 1799; _The case of
Ireland stated_ 1847. _d._ 37 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London 30
Nov. 1859. _Dublin Univ. Mag., Jany. 1848 pp._ 122–33, _portrait_;
_O’Flanagan’s Irish Bar_ (1879) 273–87.

HOLMES, REV. SAMUEL (_son of John Holmes of Feversham, Kent_). _b._
1826; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; P.C. of Sidcup
1844–50; R. of North Cray 1850–5; V. of Huddersfield 1855–66;
canon residentiary of Ripon cath. 1863 to death; V. of St. Paul,
Dorking 1866–81; author of sermons. _d._ 18 Park parade, Harrogate
9 Nov. 1890.

HOLMES, WILLIAM (_5 son of Thomas Holmes of co. Sligo, brewer_).
_b._ co. Sligo 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795; D.C.L.
of Oxford univ. 5 July 1810; military sec. to Sir Thomas Hislop in
West Indies; M.P. for Grampound 1808–12, for Tregony 1812–18, for
Totnes 1819–20, for Bishop’s Castle 1820–30, for Haslemere 1830–2;
contested Ipswich 1835; M.P. Berwick on Tweed 1837–41; contested
Stafford 1841; whipper-in to the Tory party 30 years; treasurer of
the ordnance 1820–30; was close to Spencer Perceval when he was
assassinated 1812 and near to Wm. Huskisson when he was killed
1830. _d._ Grafton st. Bond st. London 26 Jany. 1851. _Portraits
of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846), _portrait_.

HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_3 son of Alexander Holmes of Athgarven,
co. Kildare_). _b._ 1817; private sec. to Sir Henry Light when
governor of Guiana 1838–47; provost marshal of Guiana 1847,
adjutant general of militia there; comr. from Guiana to Paris
exhibition 1855; knighted at Buckingham palace 4 April 1856;
author of _Report of an expedition to explore a route to the gold
fields of Caratal_ 1857; _Free cotton, how and where to grow it_
1862. _d._ 5 Osborne villas, Stoke, Devonport 9 Aug. 1868.

HOLMES, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Sudbury, Derbyshire 8 Jany. 1812;
student at R.A. of music 1822, sub-professor of pianoforte 1826,
afterwards professor; the teacher of W. S. Bennett, J. W. Davison,
G. A. and W. Macfarren; appeared as a pianist at Philharmonic Soc.
concert 24 March 1851; composer of _The Elfin of the Lake, an
opera_ 1850, of very numerous pieces left in MS. and of 130
printed pieces for the piano 1835–81. _d._ 23 April 1885. _bur._
Brompton cemet. 27 April. _Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of music_
(1854) 295; _Grove’s Dict. of music, i_, 744 (1879).

HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD (_son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea,
co. Londonderry_). _b._ London 1821; entered consular service at
Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March
1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany.
1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of
Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from
the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of _Sketches on the
shores of the Caspian_ 1845. _d._ Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19
Jany. 1882.

HOLMS, JOHN (_son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley_). _b._
Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and
Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord
of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of
board of trade 1882–5; author of _The British army in 1875, its
administration and organization_ 1875; _Our military difficulty_.
_d._ 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891.
_I.L.N. lxvi_, 199, 200 (1875), _portrait_, _11 April 1891 p._
467, _portrait_.

HOLROYD, EDWARD (_3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831,
justice of court of Queen’s Bench_). _b._ 24 July 1794; ed. at
Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov.
1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26
April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy
court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on
abolition of office; author of _Observations upon the case of A.
Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford_ 1819. _d._ Elland
lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.

HOLT, ALFRED HENRY (_son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844_).
Reported prize fights for _The Era_, _Morning Advertiser_, _Bell’s
Life in London_ and _Sportsman_. _d._ 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. _bur._
Nunhead cemetery.

HOLT, DAVID. _b._ Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828;
assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death;
author of _Poems, rural and miscellaneous_ 1846; _Lays of hero
worship and other poems_ 1850; _Janus, Lake sonnets and other
poems_ 1853; _Poems_ 1868. _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March
1880.

HOLT, ELISE. _b._ London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer,
Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse
1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then
as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre
1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in
burlesque of _Lucretia Borgia_ 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly
theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (_m._ Henry
Palmer). _d._ about 1873. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870)
182, _portrait_.

HOLT, THOMAS (_son of a wool merchant, Leeds_). _b._ Horbury,
Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a
wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55;
purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member
for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for
Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member
of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873;
author of _Two speeches on the subject of education in New South
Wales_ 1857. _d._ Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. _Heaton’s
Australian Dict. of dates_ (1879) 95.

HOLT, THOMAS LITTLETON. _b._ 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt;
projected _Weekly Chronicle_; proprietor of _Iron Times_ started
during the railway mania 1845; edited _Morning Chronicle_; started
many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected _The Novel_
newspaper; started _Ryland’s Iron trade circular_ at Birmingham;
edited a weekly paper called _Chat_ 1846; took an active part in
popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper
duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited
_The Sixpenny magazine_ 1863; _John Horsleydown or the confessions
of a thief_ 1860. _d._ The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879.
_Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii_, 35–46 (1882).

HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, SIR FRANCIS LYTTELTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of
Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835_). _b._
Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819;
assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of
Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South
Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master
of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best
riders after hounds of his time. _d._ Sherborne house, Malvern
Wells 29 Dec. 1865. _Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii_, 398–9
(1869).

HOMAN, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Rev. Philip
Homan_). _b._ 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. _d._ Dromeroe,
Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. _G.M. xxxvii_, 406
(1852).

HOME, COSPATRICK ALEXANDER RAMEY HOME, 11 Earl of (_eld. son of 10
Earl 1769–1841_). _b._ Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché
to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign
office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828
to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative
peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron
Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875.
_d._ near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. _bur._ in
church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. _F.O. list 1882 p._ 213.

HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (_son of William Home of the family of the earl
of Home_). _b._ near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to
Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his
mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to
London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held
séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen
of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864;
gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in
London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum,
a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec.
at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on
being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him
£30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both
sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868;
gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of
_Incidents in my life_ 1863, _2nd series_ 1872; _Lights and
Shadows of Spiritualism_ 1877. _d._ Auteuil, near Paris 21 June
1886. _bur._ at St. Germain-en-Laye. _Annual register_ (1868)
187–206; _The Mask_ (1868) 141–6, _portrait_; _T. A. Trollope’s
What I remember, i_, 376–81; _Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp._
577–81.

NOTE.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is
understood to be a study of Home.

HOME, DAVID MILNE (_1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845_).
_b._ 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to
Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family
estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent
appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the
professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy
hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of _Our Social reforms
needed in Scotland_ 1867; _Scotch poor houses and English work
houses_ 1873; _The salmon Fisheries of Scotland_ 1882. _d._ Milne
Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. _Times 23 Sep. 1890._

HOME, FRANCIS (_eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica
in Univ. of Edin._) _b._ Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ.
of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838
and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. _d._ Main’s house near
Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.

HOME, SIR JAMES EVERARD, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Everard Home,
1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III._) _b._ 25 Oct. 1798;
entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec.
1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov.
1850 to death; F.R.S. _d._ Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Camperdown
cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.

HOME, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native
infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Weston, Bath 12
April 1860.