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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, THOMAS; b.; adm. 2 Nov 1787; in school list 1788. [Perhaps adm. Inner Temple year 1791/2, check].

HOLGATE, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Holgate (qv); bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate, London 11 Jan 1740 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jun 1752; in school list 1754; BB Mich. 1752 – Mich. 1758; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Oct 1758, matr. Easter 1759; LLB 1765; ordained deacon 3 Mar 1765, priest 8 Jun 1766 (both Norwich); Curate, Carleton St. Peter with Ashby, and Claxton, Norfolk 1765; Rector of Stowting, Kent, from 28 May 1771; travelling tutor in Italy 1779-80; Perpetual Curate of Theydon Bois, Essex, from 24 Nov 1791; m. 21 Jun 1781 Ann, only surviving child of Rev. William Salisbury BD, Rector of Moreton, Essex, and Prebendary of Lincoln; d. 17 Apr 1803.

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.

HOLGHTON, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 8) May 1744, chorister (Houghton in school lists); left 1746.

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.

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.

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.

HOLLAND, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1564-6 (tutor, Prebendary Norley).

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.