9 March 1801, aged 71. A fine portrait of him, by Romney, is in the possession of Lord Churston at Lupton House, Brixham. Holliday married the daughter of Mr. Harrison of Dilhorne Hall, Staffordshire, an attorney-at-law, by whom he had an only child Eliza Lydia, who married on 2 June 1791 Francis Buller-Yarde, M.P. for Totnes, afterwards Sir Francis Buller-Yarde, bart., and died on 1 Nov. 1851, aged 77. Holliday is said to have left in manuscript a translation of the first eight books of Virgil in hexameter verse, and a valuable collection of conveyancing precedents. He was the author of the slight memoir of Owen Salusbury Brereton [q. v.], which appeared in the 19th vol. of the ‘Transactions of the Society of Arts’ (pp. iv–vii), and of some lines on a ‘Favourite Norfolk Bantam’ in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ for 1800 (vol. lxx. pt. ii. pp. 1081–2). He also published:
- ‘The Life of Lord Mansfield,’ London, 1797, 4to.
- ‘Monody on the Death of a Friend’ [Thomas Gilbert of Cotton, Staffordshire, M.P.], anon., 1798.
- ‘The British Oak, a Poem, dedicated to Horatio, Lord Nelson, in grateful remembrance of his Lordship's signal Victory near the mouth of the Nile,’ anon., London, 1800, 4to.
[Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, ix. 194–5, 203–4, 235; Gent. Mag. 1791 pt. i. p. 582, 1801 pt. i. pp. 283–4, 1851 pt. ii. 670; Foster's Peerage, 1883, s.n. Churston, p. 154; Lincoln's Inn Registers; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
HOLLINGS, EDMUND, M.D. (1556?–1612), physician, born in Yorkshire in or about 1556, matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1573, when he was aged 17, and was admitted B.A. on 7 Feb. 1574–5 (Oxf. Univ. Reg., Oxf. Hist. Soc., II. ii. 56, iii. 49). Renouncing protestantism, he withdrew to France, and was, 14 May 1579, received into the English College of Douay, then temporarily removed to Rheims. On 21 Aug. of the same year he left the college to proceed on foot to Rome, in company with five other students, who were admitted into the English College there in the following October. Hollings, however, does not appear to have become a member of the college, though he certainly resided there for several years, and became an intimate friend of Pits the biographer. An English spy, in his report to the government, stated that Hollings was one of the pope's scholars in the college in 1581 (Records of the English Catholics, i. 358). From Rome he proceeded to Ingolstadt in Bavaria, when he was created M.D. and appointed professor of medicine. He was ‘highly venerated for his great knowledge, and the success he obtained in that faculty’ (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 114). He died at Ingolstadt on 26 March 1612.
His works, all of which were printed at Ingolstadt, are:
- ‘De Chylosi Disputatio,’ 1592, 8vo.
- ‘De Salubri Studiosorum Victu,’ 1602, 8vo.
- ‘Theses de Medicina.’
- ‘Poemata Varia,’ 8vo.
- ‘Orationes et Epistolæ,’ 8vo.
- ‘Medicamentorum Œconomia nova, seu Nova Medicamentorum in classes distribuendor. ratio,’ 1610 and 1615, 8vo.
- ‘Ad Epistolam quandam à Martino Rulando, Medico Cæsario, de Lapide Bezoar; et Fomite Luis Ungariæ,’ 1611, 8vo.
[Pits, De Angl. Script. p. 815; Dodd's Church Hist. ii. 430; Gillow's Dict. Engl. Cath.; Records of the English Catholics, i. 153, 155.]
HOLLINGS, JOHN M.D. (1683?–1739), physician, born about 1683, was the son of John Hollings, M.D., of Shrewsbury, and formerly fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. After attending Shrewsbury grammar school, he entered Magdalene College as a pensioner on 27 March 1700, and proceeded M.B. in 1705 and M.D. in 1710 (College Register). He was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians on 25 June 1725, and a fellow on 25 June 1726, having on 16 March previously been elected F.R.S. (Thomson, Hist. of Roy. Soc. Append. iv. p. xxxvii). He rose to be physician-general to the army and physician in ordinary to the king. He died in Pall Mall on 10 May 1739 (Probate Act Book, P. C. C., 1739; Gent. Mag. ix. 272). By his wife Jane he had a son, John Hollings, M.D., who died on 28 Dec. 1739 (Gent. Mag. ix. 661), and two daughters, Mrs. Champernowne and Margaret (will in P. C. C. 106, Henchman). Hollings's reputation for classical scholarship and general culture was considerable. His only publication was the Harveian oration for 1734, entitled ‘Status Humanæ Naturæ expositus in Oratione coram Medicis Londinensibus habita,’ 4to, London, 1734, of which an English translation appeared the same year.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. 1878, ii. 94.]
HOLLINGWORTH, RICHARD (1639?–1701), controversialist, was born in Lincolnshire, of presbyterian parentage, about 1639. On 5 Feb. 1654–5 he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a sizar, and proceeded M.A. in 1662 and D.D. in 1684 (College Register). In 1662, to cite his own narrative in his ‘Second Defence’ (p. 51), he was ordained by Sanderson, bishop of Lincoln. In 1663 he was licensed by Sheldon, bishop of London, to a lectureship in London upon the personal recommendation of Dolben, archbishop of York, and acted in that capacity
