HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD BARON (1773-1840), was the son of Stephen Fox, and Baron Holland, and his wife nee Lady Mary Fitzpatrick. He was born at Winterslow House, Wiltshire, on Nov. 21, 1773, and his father died in 1774. He was admitted to the privy council in 1806, and on Oct. 15 entered the cabinet "of all the talents" as lord privy seal, retiring with the rest of his colleagues in March 1807. His loyalty as a Whig during the long subsequent period of oppo sition was rewarded by his appointment as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in the cabinet of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne, and he died in office on Oct. 22, 1840. Lord Holland is notable, not for his unimportant political career, but as a patron of litera ture, as a writer, and as a leader in the Whig political and literary world of the time. Lady Holland (d. Nov. 16, 1845) made for herself in London the position filled in Paris during the 18th cen tury by the society ladies who held "salons." Lord Holland's For eign Reminiscences (1850) contain much amusing gossip from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. His Memoirs of the Whig Party and Further Memoirs (1852) are important contemporary authorities. Holland had two legitimate sons, Stephen, who died in i800, and Henry Edward (d. 1859) 4th and last Lord Holland who edited his father's Reminiscences and Memoirs.