Holland

Holland, SIR HENRY, physician, was born at Knutsford, Cheshire, on 27th October 1788, and studied at Edinburgh. He wrote a book on his three years' Travels in Albania, Thessaly, settled in London in 1816, and soon became one of the recognised heads of his profession. In 1828 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; in 1840 he was appointed physician-in-ordinary to the Prince Consort, and in 1852 physician-in-ordinary to the Queen. In the following year he was created a baronet. His Medical Notes and Reflections, published in 1839, consist of 34 essays upon various departments of medicine and psychology; it has passed through several editions. In 1852 appeared Chapters on Mental Physiology, which are expansions of those essays in his former work which treated of 'that particular part of human physiology which comprises the reciprocal actions and relations of mental and bodily phenomena.' Other books from his pen are Essays on Scientific Subjects (1862) and Recollections of Past Life (1871). Holland died at London, 27th October 1873. He was related in different degrees to Josiah Wedgwood, Mrs Gaskell, and Charles Darwin, and married for his second wife a daughter of Sydney Smith. See KNUTSFORD.