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HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART. (1788-1873), English physician and author, was born at Knutsford, Cheshire, on Oct.

27, 1788. He studied medicine at Edinburgh . In he began to practise in London. In 184o he became physician in ordinary to Prince Albert, and in 1852 to the queen. He was created a baronet in 1853. He died on Oct. 27, 1873.

Sir Henry Holland was the author of General View of the Agricul ture of Cheshire (1807) ; Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly and Greece (1812-13, 2nd ed., 1819) ; Medical Notes and Reflections (1839) ; Chapters on Mental Physiology (1852) ; Essays on Scientific and other Subjects contributed to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews (1862) ; and Recollections of Past Life (1872) .

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