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HOLLINGWORTH, FREDERICK, son of Capt. William Hollingworth, 3rd Troop, Horse Guards; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1744/5; left 1751; Ensign, 13th Foot 21 Mar 1752; Lieut., 31 Dec 1755; Capt., 104th Company of Marines 8 Mar 1757; Lieut. and Capt., 3rd Foot Guards 2 Sep 1757; Capt. -Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 3 Jul 1767; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 9 May 1768; ret. 4 Feb 1776; d. 1776.

HOLLINGWORTH, JOHN, brother of Frederick Hollingworth (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1746/7; left 1750.

Hollins, Cecil Braithwaite, son of the Rev. William Tyndale Hollins, Vicar of St. James, Clapham Park, Surrey, by Priscilla Anna, daughter of George Foster Braithwaite, of Kendal, Westmorland; b. May 16, 1898; adm. April 26, 1912 (G); left April 1916; joined 28th Batt. London Regt.; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. Grenadier Guards Sept. 7, 1916; wounded; Lieut.; served on the circulation staff of the Sunday Express and Daily Mail; circulation manager, Sunday Express 1935-9; wholesale newsagent at Devonport since 1939; served in Great War II; Lieut. R. A.R.O. Grenadier Guards; temp. Capt. May 25, 1941; m. June 1, 1937, Grace Jeanette, daughter of Edward Stacey, solicitor, of Ugley Green, Essex.

HOLLIS, HENRY PARK, son of Henry Hollis, Camden Road, London, and Louisa Sarah, dau. of Thomas Park; b. 9 Jan 1858; adm. 23 Jan 1873; left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1876; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Oct 1876, scholar 1876, matr. Mich. 1876; BA 1880; Assistant, Royal Observatory, Greenwich 1881-1920, Superintendent Astrographic Department 1896-1920; Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, President 1908-10; editor, The Observatory Magazine 1893-1912; author, Chats on Astronomy; m. 14 Nov 1882 Clara Susanna, dau. of Edward Clark, Camberwell, Surrey; d. 7 Aug 1939.

Hollocombe, Edward, brother of John Christiano Hollocombe (q.v.); b. Aug. 2, 1876; adm. Jan. 15, 1891 (H); left Dee. 1893; d. Nov. 23, 1905.

Hollocombe, John Christiano, eldest son of John Hollocombe, of South Kensington, by Henriette Louise, daughter of Frederico Klingelhoefer, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; b. Aug. 30, 1872; adm. Sept. 16, 1886 (H); left July 1891; secretary of the London and Brazilian Bank; m. Aug. 13, 1897, Edith Julia, daughter of John Gordon, of Tunbridge Wells; d. June 11, 1938.

Hollocombe, Rudolf, brother of John Christiano Hollocombe (q.v.); b. March 1, 1880; adm. Jan. 19, 1893 (R); left April 1894, and went to Repton School; a cattle rancher 1899-1910; served in Great War I; Capt. 9th (Service) Batt. S. Staffs Regt. Nov. 23, 1914; was wounded; M.C. June 1, 1918; O.B.E. June 3, 1925; temp. translator H. M. Legation, Mexico, Feb. 3, 1923; d. May 22, 1928.

HOLLOCOMBE, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 21 Jan 1782, chorister.

HOLLOWAY, BENJAMIN, son of Joseph Holloway, Stony Stratford, Bucks. , maltster; b. ; at school under Knipe (J. E. B. Mayor, ed. , Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , ii, 187); BB; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Feb 1707/8, aged 17, Wood Scholar 8 Nov 1708, matr. 1708; LLB 1713; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 5 Jul 1713, priest 27 May 1716; Rector of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, from 1724; Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks. (second portion), 17 Mar 1726/7 -36; Rector of Bladon, Oxfordshire 26 Mar 1736 – Dec 1739; FRS 30 Nov 1723; translated Woodward’s Naturalis Historiae Telluris, 1726; author, Originals Physical and Theological, Sacred and Profane, 1751, and other works; m. 1712 Frances Plaistowe; d. 10 Apr 1759. DNB.