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Authorised form of nameHolland; Sir; Henry (1788 - 1873); physician
Dates1788 - 1873
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKnutsford, Cheshire, England
Date of birth27 October 1788
Place of deathHis house, Brook Street, London
Date of death27 October 1873
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
MD (1811, Edinburgh)
Career:
Articled clerk to a mercantile house, Liverpool; obtained a release from his articles in order to study medicine (1811); travelled to Iceland with Sir George Mackenzie and Richard Bright (1810); travelled to Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Greece and the Ionian Islands (1812); Domestic Physician to Caroline, Princess of Wales (1814); had an extensive practice; Physician Extraordinary to William IV and to Queen Victoria; Physician in Ordinary to Queen Victoria (1852)
Honours:
Bt 1853
Memberships:
LCP (1816); FCP (1828)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/01/1815
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1835-1836, 1860-1861, 1864-1866
RelationshipsSon of a medical pracitioner; married 1) (8 October 1822) Margaret Emma, daughter of James Caldwell of Linley Wood, Staffs, died 1830; 2) (20 March 1834) Saba, daughter of the Rev Sydney Smith, Canon of St Paul's, died 1866
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/54172885
CodeNA5899
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1814/23Holland, Sir Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/002179Holland, Henrynd
IM/Maull/002177Holland, Sir Henrynd
IM/002180Holland, Henrynd
PT/10/19Paper, 'On the manufacture of the sulphate of magnesia at Monte della Guardia near Genoa' by H [Henry] Holland[1816]
RR/1/71Referee's report by Henry Holland, on a paper 'On the temperatures and geological relations of certain hot springs, particularly those of the Pyrenees; and on the verification of thermometers' by James David Forbes17 June 1836
MC/6/96Letter from Robt [Robert] Winthrop, Albermarle Hotel, to Sir Henry Holland, [Vice-President of the Royal Society]18 June 1860
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
HSF/1/2/30Letter from H [Henry] Holland, Brook Street, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]16 May [1862]
HSF/1/2/31Letter from H [Henry] Holland, Brook Street, to Sir John [Frederick William] Herschel3 November [1862]
HSF/1/2/36Letter from H [Henry] Holland, Brook Street, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]22 July [1864]
HSF/1/2/33Letter from H [Henry] Holland, 25 Brook Street, to Sir John F [Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent19 January 1863
HSF/1/2/35Letter from H [Henry] Holland, Brook Street, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]20 June [1863?]
HSF/1/2/32Letter from H [Henry] Holland, 25 Brook Street, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]24 November [1862]
HSF/1/2/38Letter from H [Henry] Holland, Brook Street, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]23 October [1866?]
HSF/1/2/34Letter from H [Henry] Holland, 25 Brook Street, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]28 April [1863]
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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