HOLLAND, PHILEMON ,i552-1637), English scholar, "the translator-general in his age," was born at Chelmsford, Essex, the son of a clergyman, John Holland, who had been in exile with Miles Coverdale during the Marian persecution. Hav ing become a fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, he was in corporated at Oxford (July 11, 1585) and studied medicine. About 1595 he settled as a doctor in Coventry, but chiefly occu pied himself with translations, which included Livy, Pliny's Nat ural History, Plutarch's Morals, Suetonius, Ammianus Marcellinus and Xenophon's Cyropaedia. He published also an English ver sion, with additions, of Camden's Britannia. His Latin translation of Brice Bauderon's Pharmacopaea and his Regimen sanitatis Salerni were published after his death by his son, Henry Hol land (1583–?165o).