HOLLAND, Lord, HENRY RtertanD Fox, VASSALL-HOLLAND, Third Baron, F. It. S., an English statesman, was descended from Henry Fox, first baron, secretary of state to George II. Holland was born at Winterslow House, Wilts, in 1773, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father, the second baron, in 1774. He went to Eton, maid thence to Christchurch. He was trained for public life by his celebrated uncle, Charles James Fox, and made his first speech in the house of lords in Jan., 1798. After the death of Mr. Fox, Holland held the post of lord privy seal in the Grenville ministry for a few months. He then shared the long banishment of the whigs from the councils of their sovereign. During this long and dreary interval, Holland, to use the language of Macaulay (who has paid an elegant tribute to his memory), was the "constant protector of all oppressed races and persecuted sects." He held unpopular opinions in regard to
the war with France, and signed a protest against the detention of Napoleon at St. Helena. On the other hand, be labored to ameliorate the severity of the criminal code; made manful war, though a West India planter, on the slave-trade; threw his whole heart, though a landowner, into the struggle against the corn-laws; and although by rank and breeding an aristocrat, labored incessantly to extend and confirm the rights and lib idles of the subject. In 1830 he became chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and a member of the reform cabinet of earl Grey, and these posts he also held in the Melbourne ministry. He died at Holland house, Kensington, Oct. 22, 1840. In his ample person and expressive features he resembled his celebrated uncle.