PHILEMON

See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• PHILEMON HOLLAND (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

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