of Thornbury in Gloucestershire by Christ Church in January 1762, was appointed prebendary of Exeter in 1776, and was at one time chaplain to George III. He died 13 Feb. 1798.
He wrote:
- 'Selecti Dionysii Halicarnensis de priscis scriptoribus Tractatus græcè et latinè,' 1766.
- 'The Beauties of Homer, selected from the Iliad,' 1775.
- 'Extracts from Mr. Pope's translation, corresponding with the Beauties of Homer,' 1776.
- 'A Mythological, Etymological, and Historical Dictionary, extracted from the Analysis of Ancient Mythology' (by Jacob Bryant [q. v.]), 1793.
[Information from Winslow Jones, esq.; Gent. Mag. 1798, lxviii. 259; Exeter Cathedral Register; Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Oxford Catalogue of Graduates, and Honours Register; Horace Walpole's Letters, vi. 107; Hardy's Le Neve's Fasti Eccl. Angl.; Gloucester Dioc. Reg.; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. iii. 743, confuses this William Holwell with a nephew, William Holwell Carr, q.v.]
HOLWORTHY, JAMES (d. 1841), water-colour painter, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803 and 1804. In the latter year he was one of the foundation members of the (now Royal) Society of Painters in Water-colours, and he contributed constantly to their exhibitions till 1813, his subjects being drawn from Wales, the Lake district, and Yorkshire. He practised in London till 1822. In 1824 he married a niece of Joseph Wright of Derby, and retired to the Brookfield estate, near Hathersage in that county, which he had purchased. He died in London in 1841, was buried at Kensal Green. He was a friend of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. There are two drawings by him at the South Kensington Museum.
[Redgrave’s Dict.; Bryan’s Dict. (Graves); Grave’s Dict.; Catalogue of South Kensington Museum.]
HOLYDAY or HOLIDAY, BARTEN (1593–1661), dramatist, translator, and divine, son of Thomas Holiday, a tailor, was born in All Saints’ parish, Oxford, in 1593. He matriculated at Christ Church, 13 Dec. 1605, and was admitted B.A. 14 May 1612 and M.A. 15 June 1615 (Oxf. Univ. Reg., Oxf. Hist. Soc., II. iii. 311). Taking orders, he was esteemed a ‘most eloquent and quaint preacher,’ and two benefices in the diocese of Oxford were conferred upon him. In 1618 he went to Spain as chaplain to Sir Francis Steuart, who was in attendance on Gondomar. His ‘facete and pleasant way,’ says Wood, won Gondomar’s favour. Afterwards he was chaplain to Charles I, before 1626 became archdeacon of Oxford, and in 1642 was created D.D. by the king’s letters. At the time of the Commonwealth he submitted to ‘the examination of the triers or rather Spanish inquisitors’ (Wood), and was inducted into the rectory of Chilton, Berkshire. He gave up this living at the Restoration and returned to Iffley, near Oxford, where he lived on his archdeaconry. Wood, who knew him well, says that ‘had he not acted the vain man’ he might have had a bishopric, or at least a rich deanery. He died 2 Nov. 1661, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral.
Holiday published in 1616, 8vo, a verse translation of Persius’s ‘Satires;’ it was republished in 1617, 1635, and 1673. The posthumous edition of 1673, fol., was accompanied by a new translation of Juvenal, line for line, and contains voluminous notes (Dryden's Works, ed. Scott and Saintsbury, xii. 96). ‘Τεχνογαμία, or the Marriages of the Arts. A Comedie,’ London, 1618, 4to (2nd edit. 1630), was acted in Christ Church Hall on 13 Feb. 1617-18. It was afterwards acted at Woodstock, 26 Aug. 1621, before James I, who found the performance very tedious. Whether the actors had taken too much wine before they began, or whether the subject of the play was distasteful, his majesty made several attempts to leave after sitting out the first two acts, but was finally induced to stay till the end. Some epigrams on the Woodstock performance were circulated by Cambridge wits, and Holiday’s Oxford friends (among them Henry King, afterwards bishop of Chichester) retorted. In 1653 he published: ‘All Horace his Lyrics, or His Four Books of Odes and his Book of Epodes Englished,’ 8vo. Wood remarks: ‘This translation is so near that of Sir Thomas Hawkins, or that of Hawkins so near this, that whether of the two is the author remains to be discovered.’ Holiday’s last work was ‘A Survey of the World in Ten Books,’ Oxford, 1661, 8vo, each of the ten books containing a hundred couplets. He published a Latin tractate, ‘Philisophiæ Polito-Barbaræ Specimen,’ 1633, 4to, and several sermons. Commendatory verses by Holyday are prefixed to the 1640 collection of Ben Jonson’s poems. A satirical epigram on him is printed in Huth’s ‘Inedited Poetical Miscellanies.’
[Wood’s Athenæ, ed. Bliss, i. xxiv, xliii, l, iii. 520-4; Hunter’s Chorus Vatum (Add. MS. 24489, ff. 56-8); Langbaine’s Dramatick Poets; Hearnes’s Diary, ed. Doble, i. 267; Nichol’s Progresses of James I.]
HOLYMAN, JOHN, D.D. (1495–1558), bishop of Bristol, was a native of Codding-
