Physiology of the Fœtus, Liver, and Spleen,’ 1831, added much to his professional reputation, and he was appointed one of the honorary physicians to the Sheffield General Infirmary. Holland was an enthusiastic student of the new science of mesmerism. In the struggle for the repeal of the corn laws he turned his back on his old principles and actively defended protection. Although his new friends rewarded his efforts with a purse containing five hundred guineas, his action cost him in practice and position more than ten times the amount. Practically giving up his profession, Holland became provisional director of many of the railway projects at the time of the railway mania, and was also a director of the Leeds and West Riding Bank and of the Sheffield and Retford Bank. Disaster overtook these latter companies, and involved him in utter ruin. He retired to Worksop, where he wrote ‘Philosophy of Animated Nature,’ 1848, which he regarded as his best work. After an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself in London, he returned again to Sheffield in 1851, and having changed his views on medical science began practice as a homœopathist. He was elected a member of the town council, but lost his seat in 1858, owing to his advocacy of a Local Improvement Act. In 1862, however, he was made an alderman of the borough, and that position he held until his death at Sheffield on 7 March 1865. Holland's principal works are, besides those mentioned above: 1. ‘Essay on Education,’ 1828, 8vo. 2. ‘Inquiry into the Principles and Practice of Medicine,’ 2 vols. 1833 and 1835. 3. ‘Corn Law Repealing Fallacies,’ &c., 1840, 8vo. 4. ‘Millocrat,’ 1841, 8vo. 5. ‘The Abuses and Evils of Charity, especially of Medical Charitable Institutions.’ 6. ‘The Vital Statistics of Sheffield,’ 1843. 7. ‘The Philosophy of the Moving Powers of the Blood.’ 8. ‘Diseases of the Lungs from Mechanical Causes,’ 1844. 9. ‘The Nature and Cure of Consumption, Indigestion, Scrofula, and Nervous Affections,’ 1850. 10. ‘Practical Suggestions for the Prevention of Consumption,’ 1850. 11. ‘Practical Views on Nervous Diseases,’ 1850. 12. ‘The Constitution of the Animal Creation as expressed in Structural Appendages,’ 1857. 13. ‘The Domestic Practice of Homœopathy,’ London, 12mo, 1859. He also edited a new edition of the poetical works of Richard Furness of Dore, with a sketch of his life, 1858.
[Annals of Yorkshire, p. 453; medical directories, 1864; Cat. of the Manchester Free Ref. Library.]
HOLLAND, GUY (1587?–1660), jesuit, who sometimes assumed the name of Holt, was born in Lincolnshire in or about 1587, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1605. On being converted to Roman catholicism he retired to Spain, and entered the English College at Valladolid on 26 Nov. 1608. He was ordained priest, and in May 1613 was sent to England, where he joined the Society of Jesus in 1615. He was arrested, with other fathers, in March 1627–8, at the London residence of the society. On 14 July 1628 he was professed of the four vows. For forty-five years he laboured on the English mission, chiefly in the London district, and in the ‘residence of St. Mary,’ or Oxford district, of which he was at one time superior. He died in England on 26 Nov. 1660, aged 73.
He is author of: 1. ‘Exceptions’ made against the ‘Discourse of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome,’ by Lucius Cary, lord Falkland, which appeared at Oxford in 1645, 4to. Lord Falkland replied in ‘A View of some Exceptions made against the Discourse,’ &c., Oxford, 1646, 4to. Bishop Barlow distinctly declares that Holland wrote the answer to the ‘Discourse’ (Wood, Athenæ Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 569), but in the British Museum Catalogue the authorship is ascribed to the Rev. Thomas White, alias Blackloe. Another reply to the ‘Discourse’ was written by Hugh Paulinus or Serenus Cressy [q. v.] 2. ‘The Grand Prerogative of Humane Nature. Namely, the Souls naturall or native immortality, and freedome from corruption, shewed by many arguments, and also defended against the rash and rude conceptions of a late presumptuous Authour, who hath adventured to impugne it. By G. H., Gent.,’ London, 1653, 8vo, pp. 134. Other works, left ready for the press, are said to have been stopped by the censors owing to one or two points in which the author deviated from the common opinion of the doctors.
[Addit. MS. 5871, f. 174; De Backer's Bibl. de la Compagnie de Jésus; Dodd's Church Hist. iii. 309; Foley's Records, i. 700, vii. 365; Gillow's Bibl. Dict.; Lewis's Lives of Lord Clarendon's Friends, i. 166; Nichols's Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell (Camden Society's Miscellany, vol. ii.), p. 48; Oliver's Jesuit Collections, p. 117; Southwell's Bibl. Scriptorum Soc. Jesu, p. 311; Wallace's Anti-Trinitarian Biography, i. 157; Watt's Bibl. Brit.]
HOLLAND, HENRY (d. 1604), divine, educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1579–80, was instituted to the vicarage of Orwell, Cambridgeshire, on 21 Nov. 1580. In 1583 he commenced M.A., and on 13 Feb. 1593–4 was instituted to the vicarage of St. Bride, London, on the presentation of the dean and chapter of Westminster. This benefice was
