Bernard Holland (barrister)
Bernard Henry Holland CB (23 December 1856 – 25 May 1926) was an English barrister, civil servant and writer.
Biography
Bernard Holland was born in Canterbury, the eldest son of Francis James Holland and his wife Mary Sibylla, daughter of Alfred Lyall.[1] Educated at first in Eton, he later graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, with a Master of Arts. Equity draftsman and conveyancer,[2] he was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1882,[3] which entitled him to practise as a barrister.
Holland held the office of Secretary to the Duke of Devonshire between 1892 and 1894. He was private secretary to his close friend Alfred Lyttelton, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, between 1903 and 1908. He also held the office of alderman of the London County Council between 1910 and 1920.[4]
Holland was a Cambridge Apostles member.[5]
Private life
He married Florence Helen Duckworth, the daughter of Reverend William Arthur Duckworth and Edina Campbell, on 3 January 1895. The couple had five children:
- Christopher Bernard Holland (1898–1899)
- Mary Verena Violet Holland (born 1901)
- Catherine Sibylla Holland (1903–1983)
- John Francis Holland (1906–1907)
- Alfred Bernard Holland (1908–1953)
Works
- Letters of Mary Sibylla Holland (1898; editor)
- A Reported Change in Religion (1899; under the pen name "Onyx")
- Imperium et Libertas: A Study in History and Politics (1901)
- Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life (1901; editor)
- The Life of Spencer Compton, Eighth Duke of Devonshire (1911)
- The Fall of Protection, 1840-1850 (1913)
- The Lancashire Hollands (1917)
- Memoir of Kenelm Henry Digby (1919)
- Friedrich von Hügel, Selected Letters, 1896-1924 (1927; editor)
Notes
- ↑ "Mary Sibylla Lyall," The Peerage.
- ↑ Foster, Joseph (1885). "Holland, Bernard Henry." In: Men-at-the-Bar. London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, p. 222.
- ↑ The Solicitors' Journal, Vol. XXVI (1882), p. 421.
- ↑ "Bernard Henry Holland," The Peerage.
- ↑ Lubenow, W. C. (2007). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- Contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography
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- Members of the Inner Temple
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- Writers from Canterbury
