HOLLAND, CHRISTOPHER, son of James Holland, St. Gregory’s parish, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1720; Min. Can. 1721; KS 1722; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1726, matr. 13 Jun 1726, Westminster Student 5 Apr 1729 – void 28 Jun 1739, expiry year of grace as V. Chippenham from 10 May 1738; BA 1730; MA 1733; Vicar of Chippenham, Wiltshire, from 1738; m. 9 May 1738 Elizabeth Trevanion; d. 8 May 1760.

Holland, Charles Archibald, son of Charles Carter Holland, of Farnham, Surrey, by Alice, daughter of Charles Peter Christie, of Hoddesdon, Herts; b. Feb. 7, 1884; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (R); left July 1902; Trin. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1902; B.A.; 1908; M.A.; 1916; asst. master at various preparatory schools 1908-12; ord. deacon 1913, priest 1914 (Winchester); Curate of Elson, Rants, 1913; a Y. M.C. A. worker in the Chatham area June - Aug. 1917, and in the 2nd Army area on the western front Sept. 1917-March 1919; Vicar of Newtown, Hants 1930; d. Jan. 29, 1943.

Holland, Charles Alan Simon, brother of Mark Victor Holland (qv); b. 15 Jan. 1947; adm. Sept. 1960 (L); left Dec. 1965; Trin. Coll. Dublin 1966-70, BA; a journalist 1972-80; garden designer 1982-2016; m. 5 Feb. 1977 Hon. Margaret Catharine Edmondson, social worker, sister of Hon. Frances Edmondson (qv); d. 5 Dec. 2016.

Holland, Cecil Frederick, son of the Rev. Alfred Holland, Vicar of St. Agnes, Kenni ngton Park, Surrey, by Edith Shuldham, daughter of the Rev. William Wright Gilbert-Cooper, Vicar of Burwash Weald, Sussex; b. Jan. 26, 1886; adm. Jan. 19, 1899 (H); left Easter 1903; Keble Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1904; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Gloucs Regt. (T. F.) Sept. 2, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; was wounded; mentioned in despatches L. G. Sept. 22, 1916; M.C. Sept. 22, 1916, bar May 26, 1917; sometime head master of a pre­paratory school at Reigate, Surrey.

HOLLAND (alias ROBERTS), HUGH, son of Robert Holland, Denbigh, Denbighshire, and --- Pain, Denbigh; b.; adm.; QS; his contribution to the congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth, preserved in the Chapter Library, is signed “Hugo Roberts”; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1589, adm. scholar 1590; BA 1593/4; MA 1597; became a Roman Catholic; travelled abroad; imprisoned at Constantinople by Sir Robert Glover, the English Ambassador there, for abuse of Queen Elizabeth; resided in Oxford for some years, lodging in Balliol Coll.; patronised by Duke of Buckingham; a member, Mermaid Club; a sonnet of his was prefixed to the first folio edition of Shakespeare; author, A Cypres Garland for the Sacred Forehead of our late Soveraigne King James, 1625, and other verses; m. Ursula, widow of Robert Woodard, Burnham, Bucks.; buried near door of St. Bennet’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey 23 Jul 1633. DNB.

Holiday, Francis Augustus, elder son of Sir Frederick Charles Holiday, of Maida Vale, Auditor of Accounts of the Secretary of State for India in Council, by Adela Maria, only daughter of Henry Mileham, of Oulton Grange, Suffolk; b. May 8, 1873; adm. June 5, 1885 (A); left Dec. 1888; Royal Coll. of Science, South Kensington; travelled in Russia, Japan, Venezuela, Trinidad, and Mexico, making geological surveys and reporting on oilfields; m. 1899, Elsie Margaret Smalley; d. at Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 27, 1916.

Holiday, Charles Gilbert Joseph, brother of Francis Augustus Holiday (q.v.); b. Jan. 29, 1879; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (A); left July 1896; an artist; exhibited from time to time at the Royal Academy exhibitions, worked chiefly in black and white on military and hunting subjects; served in the R. F. A. on the western front in Great War I; m. 1908 Nina Margaret Spencer; d. Jan. 8, 1937.

HOLGATE, THOMAS, son of George Holgate, London, banker, and Sarah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate, London 16 Jul 1738 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) May 1749; KS 1752; still at school 1754.

HOLFORD, SAMUEL, third son of Sir Richard Holford, Kt, Master in Chancery, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and his third wife Susanna, dau. of Samuel Trotman, Bucknell, Oxfordshire; b.; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1712, but went to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 8 Jul 1712; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jun 1712, called to bar 28 Apr 1719.

Holford, Cecil Francis Lovell, son of Herbert Frank Stanley Holford, of Cricklewood, by Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Henry Lovell, K.C.M.G., F.R.C.S.; b. July 8, 1900; adm. April 29, 1915, (A); left Dec. 1917; 2nd Lieut. R. Marine L.I., Jan. 1919; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1922; Capt. Jan. 1, 1930; Major Oct. 2, 1932; acting Lieut.-Col. Aug. q., 1942; D.S.O. (withdrawal from Boulogne and Calais) Sept. 6, 1940; m. March 31, 1930, Adien Margery, daughter of John Llewellyn Rees.