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The Revd Canon Professor Henry Scott Holland Regius Professor of Divinity University of Oxford Holland c. 1910 Church Church of England Archdiocese London Province Canterbury Metropolis Birmingham Diocese Diocese of Oxford See Canterbury Appointed 1911 In office 1911 to 1918 Predecessor William Ince Successor Arthur Headlam Other posts Canon of Christ Church, Oxford Personal details Birth name Henry Scott Holland ( 1847 - 01 - 27 ) 27 January 1847 Ledbury, Herefordshire 17 March 1918 ( 1918 - 03 - 17 ) ( aged 71 ) Christ Church, Oxford Buried All Saints, Cuddesdon Parish Churchyard Nationality British Denomination Anglican Residence Christ Church Parents George Henry Holland and Charlotte Dorothy Holland ( nee Gifford ) Occupation Professor of Divinity Profession Anglican priest Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford Henry Scott Holland ( 27 January 1847 -- 17 March 1918 ) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. The Scott Holland Memorial Lectures are held in his memory. Contents 1 Family and education 2 Religious and political activity 3 Notes 4 Sources 5 External links Family and education He was born at Ledbury, Herefordshire, the son of George Henry Holland ( 1818 -- 1891 ) of Dumbleton Hall, Evesham, and of the Hon. Charlotte Dorothy Gifford, the daughter of Lord Gifford. He was educated at Eton where he was a pupil of the influential Master William Johnson Cory, and at the Balliol College of the University of Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats. During his Oxford time he was greatly influenced by T.H. Green. He had the Oxford degrees of DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt. Religious and political activity After graduation, he was elected as a Student ( fellow ) of Christ Church, Oxford. In 1884, he left Oxford for St Paul 's Cathedral where he was appointed canon. He was keenly interested in social justice and formed PESEK ( Politics, Economics, Socialism, Ethics and Christianity ) which blamed capitalist exploitation for contemporary urban poverty. In 1889, he formed the Christian Social Union. In 1910, he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, a post he held until his death in 1918. He is buried in the churchyard of All Saints church, Cuddesdon near Oxford. Because of his surname, Mary Gladstone referred to him affectionately as `` Flying Dutchman '' and Fliegende Hollander. While at St Paul 's Cathedral Holland delivered a sermon in May 1910 following the death of King Edward VII, titled Death the King of Terrors, in which he explores the natural but seemingly contradictory responses to death : the fear of the unexplained and the belief in continuity. It is from his discussion of the latter that perhaps his best - known writing, Death is nothing at all, is drawn : Wikisource has original text related to this article : The King of Terrors Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident ? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight ? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt ; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again ! The frequent use of this passage has provoked some criticism that it fails to accurately reflect either Holland 's theology as a whole, or the focus of the sermon in particular. What has not provoked as much criticism is the affinity of Holland 's passage to St. Augustine 's thoughts in his 4th Century letter 263 to Sapida, in which he writes that Sapida 's brother and their love, although he has died, still are there, like gold that still is yours even if you save it in some locker. Notes Jump up ^ Andrew Bradstock, Christopher Rowland, eds, Radical Christian Writings : A Reader ( John Wiley & Sons, 2008 ), 193. Jump up ^ Gladstone Drew, Mary ( 1974 ). `` Chapter III : HENRY SCOTT HOLLAND ''. Acton, Gladstone and others. p. 57. Retrieved February 7, 2015. My name for him was the `` Flying Dutchman '' or the `` Fliegende Hollander. '' He was in some sense associated with wings. Jump up ^ The King Of Terrors : The Theology Of Henry Scott Holland Sources George William Erskine Russell, Prime Ministers and Some Others, available at ( 1 ) The Times obituary External links Wikiquote has quotations related to : Henry Scott Holland Wikisource has original works written by or about : Henry Scott Holland Works by Henry Scott Holland at Faded Page ( Canada ) Henry S. Holland ( at Spartacus Educational ) Works by or about Henry Scott Holland at Internet Archive Works by Henry Scott Holland at LibriVox ( public domain audiobooks ) Academic offices Preceded by William Ince Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford 1911 -- 1918 Succeeded by Arthur Headlam VIAF : 59072756 LCCN : n86144456 ISNI : 0000 0000 8385 8125 GND : 132122979 BNF : cb10527029v ( data ) NLA : 35202098 SNAC : w62z33jn Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Scott_Holland&oldid=826027374 '' Categories : 1847 births 1918 deaths People from Ledbury People educated at Eton College Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford English Anglican theologians 19th - century English Anglican priests 20th - century English Anglican priests Christian hymnwriters English Christian socialists Regius Professors of Divinity ( University of Oxford ) Anglican socialists 19th - century English theologians 20th - century English theologians Christian socialist theologians Hidden categories : Articles with Project Gutenberg links Articles with Internet Archive links Articles with LibriVox links Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikiquote Wikisource Deutsch Français Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 16 February 2018, at 19 : 53. 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Question: when was death is nothing at all written
Answer: in May 1910