HOLLAND, HENRY SCOTT (1847-1918), English divine, was born at Ledbury, Hereford, on Jan. 27, 1847. He was edu cated at Eton and at Balliol college, Oxford; in 5872 he was ordained, becoming the same year a tutor at Christ Church. In 1882 he was senior proctor of the university, and the same year was made a cancm of Truro and examining chaplain to its bishop. He was appointed a canon of St. Paul's in 1884, and in 1886 pre centor. He refused the offer of the see of Norwich in 1893, but in 1910 was appointed regius professor of divinity at Oxford. He died at Oxford on March 17, 1918. Scott Holland was closely associated with the Christian Social Union for many years. He was a successful tutor and a popular professor ; but it is as a preacher that he is most vividly remembered.
See his Life, by Stephen Paget (1921).