Holland

Holland, PHILEMON, styled 'the translator-general of his age,' was born at Chelmsford, in Essex, in 1552. He became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1591 took at that university the degree of M.D. He afterwards practised medicine at Coventry, and in 1628 was appointed head-master of the free school there. He died on 9th February 1637. His more notable translations were Livy, Pliny's Natural History, Suetonius, Plutarch's Morals, Ammianus Marcellinus, Xenophon's Cyropædia, and Camden's Britannia. His son, Henry Holland, a bookseller in London, published Herodotus Anglicana (1620) and Basiliologia (1618).