​HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, Bart. (1788-1873), English physician and author, was born at Knutsford, Cheshire, on the 27th of October 1788 His maternal grandmother was the sister of Josiah Wedgwood, whose grandson was Charles Darwin; and hrs paternal aunt was the mother of Mrs Gaskell After spending some years at a private school at Knutsford, he was sent to a school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. whence after four years he was transferred to Dr J. P. Estlin's school near Bristol. There he at once took the pos1t1on of head boy, in succession to John Cam Hobhouse, afterwards Lord Broughton, an honour which required to be maintained by physical prowess. On leaving school he became articled clerk to a mercantile firm in Liverpool, but, as the privilege was reserved to him of passing two sessions at Glasgow university, he at the close of his second session sought relief from his articles, and in 1806 began the study of medicine in the university of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1811 After several years spent in foreign travel, he began practice in 1816 as a physician in London-according to hrs own statement. “with a fair augury of success speedily and completely fulfilled.” This "success, " he adds, “Was materially aided by visits for four successive years to Spa, at the close of that which is called the London season.” it must also, however, be in a great degree attributed to his happy temperament and his gifts as a conversationalist-qualities the influence of which, in the majority of cases belonging to his class of practice, is often of more importance than direct medical treatment. In 1816 he was elected FRS., and in 1828 FRCS He became physician in ordinary to Prince Albert in 1840, and was appointed in 1852 physician in ordinary to the queen In April 1853 he w as created a baronet. He was also a D C L of Oxford and a member of the principal learned societies of Europe He was twice married, his second wife being a daughter of Sydney Smith, a lady of considerable literary talent who pnbltshed a btogra by of hcr father Sir Henry Holland at an early period of his practice resolved to devote 5 to lns professional duties no more of h1S t1me than was necessary to secure an income of, ggooo a year, and also to spend two months Ot every jeai solely in foreign travel By the former rcsolutton hc sccurccl lcisurc tor a wide acquaintance wtth general l1teratu1e, and for a more than superficial cultivation of several branches of science, and the latter enabled him, besides v1s1t1ng, “ and most of them repeatedly, every country of Europe, ” to make extensive tours in the other three continents, journeying often to places l1ttle frequented by European travellers. As, moreover, he procured an 1ntroduct1on to nearly all the eminent personages 1n his l1ne of travel, and knew many of tl1em in h1s capacity of phys1c1an, h1s acquaintance with “men and c1ties ” was of a species without a parallel. The London M edzcal Record, in not1c1ng his death, which took place on his eighty-fifth birthday, October 27, 1873, remaiked that it “had occurred under circumstances highly characte11stic of his remarkable career.” On his return from a journey in Russia he was present, on Friday, October 24th, at the trial of Marshal Bazaine in Paris, dining with some of the judges in the evening. He reached London on the Saturday, took 1ll the following day, and died quietly on the Monday afternoon. Sir Henry Holland was the author of General View of the A grzcullure of Cheshire (1807), Travels m the Inman Isles, Albanza, Thessaly and Greece (1812-1813, 2nd ed, 1819); Medzcal Notes and Rejiectzons (1839); Chapters on, Mental Physzology (1852), Essays on Sczenlzjic and other Subjects contrzbuled lo the Edzrlburgh and Quarterly Rewews (1862), and Recolleclwns of Past Life (1872).