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Holland sponding ‘pro forma’ (Oxf. Univ. Reg. i. 133). On 29 March 1592 he was admitted a full fellow of Exeter College, and was in the same year elected rector by the influence of Queen Elizabeth, who depended on him to bring the college, where there were many Romanists, into strict conformity with the established church. During the queen's visit to Oxford, 22–8 Sept. 1592, he was the respondent in a disputation on divinity, and is specially mentioned amongst the doctors ordered to provide themselves with scarlet gowns and hoods for the credit of the university. He was again respondent in a disputation held before James I in 1605. His friend and protégé, Dr. John Prideaux, who succeeded him in the rectorship, wrote at his instigation in 1607 ‘Tabulæ ad Grammatica Græca Introductoriæ,’ and dedicated it to his patron. Holland was well versed in the learned languages, and was ‘mighty in scriptures.’ He was one of those appointed by James I to prepare the authorised version of the Bible (1611). With six other scholars in Oxford he was responsible for the translation of the four greater prophets, the ‘Lamentations,’ and the twelve lesser prophets. His strong protestant feeling is illustrated by the benediction with which he took leave of his fellows when going on a journey, ‘Commendo vos dilectioni Dei et odio Papatus et superstitionis.’ He died 17 March 1611–12, and was buried on 26 March in St. Mary's chancel, when Dr. Richard Kilbye preached his funeral sermon. His will was proved 20 April 1612. Susanna, his wife, survived him, and sold his stables to Dr. Prideaux. His son William matriculated from Exeter College 22 Nov. 1611, aged 16, and became a captain in the service of Charles I. His daughter Anne married Dr. John Whetcombe, vicar of Maiden Newton, Dorsetshire.

Holland's printed works are: 1. ‘Oratio habita cum Henricus Episc. Sarisburiensis [i.e. Henry Cotton] Gradum Doctoris susceperit,’ Oxford, 1599, 4to. 2. ‘Πανηγυρίς D. Elizabethæ Reginæ. A Sermon preached at Pauls in London the 17 of November, 1599. Whereunto is adioyned an Apologeticall Discourse for observing the 17 of November yeerely in the form of an Holy-Day,’ Oxford (by Joseph Barnes), 1601, 4to. His portrait is in the Hope collection in the Bodleian Library, and a fine engraving in Holland's ‘Herωologia.’ 

HOLLAND, THOMAS (1600–1642), jesuit, born in Lancashire in 1600, being probably a son of Richard Holland, gentleman, of Sutton, and Anne his wife, received his education in the jesuit colleges at St. Omer and Valladolid. When Prince Charles visited Madrid in 1623, Holland, at the request of his fellow-collegians, went to the capital and addressed the prince in a Latin oration, assuring him of the loyalty and good wishes of the English students in the seminaries of Spain. He entered the novitiate of the English province of the Society of Jesus at Watten in 1620, and afterwards passed to the college at Liège and the House of the Third Probation at Ghent. Subsequently he was appointed prefect of morals and confessor to the scholars at St. Omer. In 1635, he was sent to England, and for seven years laboured on the mission in London, sometimes assuming the aliases of Saunderson and Hammond. At length, on 4 Oct. 1642, he was arrested and committed to the New Prison, whence he was transferred to Newgate. On 7 Dec. he was indicted for being a priest, was found guilty, and on 12 Dec. (O.S.) 1642 was executed at Tyburn in the presence of a large crowd, including Count Egmont, Duke of Gueldres, the Spanish ambassador, and almost all the members of his suite.

There is an engraved portrait of him in the ‘Certamen Triplex’ of Father Ambrose Corbie [q. v.], published originally at Antwerp in 1645. A miniature portrait of him is preserved by the Teresian nuns at Lanherne, Cornwall. A photograph by the Woodbury process has been published. 

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HOLLAND, THOMAS AGAR (1803–1888), clergyman and poet, eldest son of Dr. Samuel Holland, precentor of Chichester and rector of Poynings, Sussex, who was sixth in descent from Robert Holland [q. v.], and of Frances, eldest daughter of Lord-chancellor