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PHILEMON HOLLAND (1552-1637)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 587 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILEMON See also:HOLLAND (1552-1637)  , See also:English See also:scholar, " the translator-See also:general in his See also:age," was See also:born at See also:Chelmsford in See also:Essex . He was the son of a clergyman, See also:John See also:Holland, who had been obliged to take See also:refuge in See also:Germany and See also:Denmark with See also:Miles See also:Coverdale during the Marian persecution . Having become a See also:fellow of Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and taken the degreel of M.A., he was incorporated at See also:Oxford (See also:July 11th, 1585) . Having subsequently studied See also:medicine, about 1595 he settled as a See also:doctor in See also:Coventry, but chiefly occupied himself with See also:translations . In 1628 he was appointed headmaster of the See also:free school, but, owing probably to advancing age, he held See also:office for only eleven months . His latter days were oppressed by poverty, partly relieved by the generosity of the See also:common See also:council of Coventry, which in 1632 assigned him £3, 6s . 8d. for three years, " if he should live so See also:long." He died on the 9th of See also:February, 1636-2637 . His fame is due solely to his translations, which included See also:Livy, See also:Pliny's Natural See also:History, See also:Plutarch's Morals, Suetonius, See also:Ammianus See also:Marcellinus and See also:Xenophon's Cyropaedia . He published also an English version, with additions, of See also:Camden's Britannia . His Latin See also:translation of Brice Bauderon's Pharmacopaea and his Regimen sanitatis Salerni were published after his See also:death by his son, See also:HENRY HOLLAND (1583-?165o), who became a See also:London bookseller, and is known to bibliographers for his Bazilicwlogia; a Booke of See also:Kings, beeing the true and liuely See also:Effigies of all our English Kings from the See also:Conquest (1618), and his Herwologia Anglica (162o) .

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