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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).