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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hollond, Ellen Julia

​HOLLOND, ELLEN JULIA (1822–1884), authoress and philanthropist, was born at Madras in 1822, her father being Thomas Teed, and her mother's maiden name Jordan. She was sent to England in her infancy, and her parents afterwards settled at Stanmore, Middlesex. In 1840 she was married to Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings from 1837 to 1852. Until his death in 1877 her salon in Paris, where she spent part of the year, attracted the leading liberals. Nowhere in Europe, according to M. de Pressensé, was there a more distinguished circle. It included Odilon Barrot, Montalembert, Rémusat, Mignet, Henri Martin, Laboulaye, Haussonville, Lanfrey, and Prévost-Paradol. Mrs. Hollond herself was a listener rather than a talker. Antipathy to the empire and to ultramontanism united royalists and republicans, liberal catholics and theists. Nassau Senior met Dufaure there in 1862 (Senior, Conversations). In 1857 Mrs. Hollond published ‘Channing, sa vie et ses œuvres,’ Rémusat writing the introduction, and in 1862 ‘La vie de village en Angleterre.’ These appeared anonymously, but in 1870 she published under her own name ‘Les Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société.’ In 1846 she sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer's picture of St. Augustine and his mother, and in 1852 he painted her portrait, now in the National Gallery. About 1844 Mrs. Hollond started the first crèche in London. She also founded an English nurses' home in Paris, with a branch at Nice; the latter is still in existence. She died at Stanmore Hall, 29 Nov. 1884.
[Information from nephew, Mr. J. R. Hollond; M. de Pressensé in Journal des Débats, 6 Dec. 1884; Mrs. Simpson's Julius and Mary Mohl.]
J. G. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Holman, Francis

​HOLMAN, FRANCIS (fl. 1760–1790), of a Cornish family, marine painter, resided among the seafaring folk in Shadwell and Wapping. There he painted several pictures of shipping, storms, sea-fights, &c., which have met with unmerited neglect. In 1767 he exhibited three pictures of shipping at the Free Society of Artists. He exhibited with that society up to 1772. In 1774 he first exhibited at the Royal Academy, sending ‘The Augusta Yacht, with His Majesty on board Reviewing the Fleet at Spithead,’ and ‘The Fleet Saluting His Majesty when on board the Barfleur.’ He exhibited there every year up to 1784. In 1778 he sent a painting of Admiral Hawke's victory at Belle Isle in 1759; in 1779 the attack on Rhode Island by the French fleet in 1778; in 1780 Admiral Rodney's engagement with the Spanish squadron; in 1782 Admiral Parker's engagement with the Dutch fleet; in 1783 Lord Rodney's action with the French fleet in April 1782; and in 1784 Lord Hood's action at Basseterre in January 1782.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. ix. 387, x. 114; Catalogues of the Free Society of Artists and the Royal Academy.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hollis, George

​HOLLIS, GEORGE (1793–1842), engraver, born at Oxford in 1793, was a pupil of George Cooke [q. v.], the engraver. He engraved in a similar style to his master, and was mainly employed on topographical works, such as Sir R. C. Hoare's ‘History of Wiltshire,’ Ormerod's ‘History of Cheshire,’ &c. He also engraved views of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, some from his own drawings. In 1818 he published six views of Chudleigh from drawings by Henry Francis de Cort [q. v.] Hollis engraved a large plate of ‘St. Mark's Place at Venice,’ after J. M. W. Turner, R.A., and other Italian views after Turner for Hakewill's ‘Tour in Italy,’ and other works. In 1839 he commenced a work on ‘Sepulchral Effigies,’ the first part of which appeared in 1840, but he died before its completion at Walworth, on 2 Jan. 1842.
Hollis, Thomas (1818–1843), only son of the above, born in 1818, became a student of the Royal Academy in 1839, and a pupil of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A. He assisted his father in drawing and etching the plates for his ‘Sepulchral Effigies,’ but died of consumption on 4 Oct. 1843, aged 25.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Gent. Mag. 1842 i. 333, 1844, i. 101; Ottley's Dict. of Painters and Engravers.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hollis, Aiskew Paffard

​HOLLIS, AISKEW PAFFARD (1764–1844), vice-admiral, entered the navy in 1774, and in 1778 was present on board the Vigilant in Keppel's action off Ushant. In January 1781 he was promoted to be lieutenant, and, continuing in active service during the peace, was appointed in July 1793 to the Queen, bearing the flag of Rear-admiral Gardner. In her he took part in the battle of 1 June 1794, where he was seriously wounded, and the encounter off L'Orient on 23 July 1795. In November 1796 he was promoted to the command of the Chichester, a 44-gun ship, employed as a storeship. On 10 Nov. 1797, being at the Cape of Good Hope, he was ordered to take temporary command of the Jupiter and bring in the Crescent frigate, then in a state of mutiny at Robin Island. This delicate service was well and happily performed, and the Crescent towed into Table Bay, under the batteries. Six days afterwards he was given an acting commission as captain of the flagship Tremendous, from which he was shortly moved to the Vindictive frigate, and sent home in charge of an East Indian convoy. On his arrival his commission was confirmed by the admiralty. In June 1801 he was appointed to the Thames frigate, and commanded her in the action in the Gut of Gibraltar on 12 July [see Saumarez, James, Lord de Saumarez], and in the operations on the coast of Egypt. The Thames was paid off in January 1803, and in the following autumn Hollis was appointed to the Mermaid, in which he served in the West Indies under the flag of Sir John Duckworth. He returned to England in 1807, and in March 1809 joined the Standard of 64 guns, forming one of the fleet up the Baltic under Sir James Saumarez, and in which he was detached in command of the squadron which in May occupied the Isle of Anholt (James, Nav. Hist. edit. 1860, iv. 431). Early in 1811 the Standard went out to Lisbon in charge of a large convoy, and for a short time assisted in the defence of Cadiz. In April Hollis was moved into the Achilles of 80 guns, attached to the fleet before Toulon, and later on employed in the Adriatic, returning to England in the summer of 1813. After the peace Hollis commanded the Rivoli (1816–17) and the Ramillies (1818–21) as guardships at Portsmouth. He had no further service, though he became in due course of seniority rear-admiral in 1825 and vice-admiral in 1837. He died at Southampton on 23 June 1844.
[Marshall's Roy. Nav. Biog. iii. (vol. ii.) 115; Gent. Mag. 1844, vol. cxxiv. pt. ii. p. 428.]
J. K. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Holloway, Richard

​HOLLOWAY, Sir RICHARD (d. 1695?), judge, was son of John Holloway, B.C.L., who was an official to the archdeacon of Berkshire and a ‘covetous civilian and public notary’ of Oxford. Richard Holloway is said to have been a fellow of New College, but his name does not appear in the list of graduates. He was admitted a member of the Inner Temple on 7 Feb. 1634, and was called to the bar on 24 Nov. 1658. His name does not appear in any law reports, and he probably practised locally in Oxford, where he lived opposite the Blue Boar in St. Aldate's parish. In February 1666 he was elected recorder by the mayor and burgesses of Wallingford (Cal. State Papers, Dom.) He was reader of his inn in Lent 1675, and in 1681 was one of the counsel for the prosecution of Stephen College [q. v.] at Oxford on a charge of high treason (xi. 331). In 1677 he had become a serjeant-at-law (Wood, Life, p. lxxix), and was already a knight and king's serjeant in June 1683 (Luttrell, Diary, i. 260). On 25 Sept. 1683 he was appointed a judge of the king's bench, and in November was one of the judges before whom Algernon Sidney was tried. He also concurred in the sentences on Titus Oates and on the Earl of Devonshire for assaulting Colonel Thomas Colepeper [q. v.] For these acts he, with the other judges, was summoned before parliament after the revolution, and, having been favourable to the dispensing power, was excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, 2 William and Mary. This was in spite of the fact that he had resisted James's claim to impose martial law in time of peace without consent of parliament, and as one of the judges at the trial of the seven bishops had declared their petition not to be a seditious libel, and had thereby brought upon himself dismissal from his judgeship on 4 July 1688. He withdrew to Oxford, where he lived in Nov. 1695, when he drew up Anthony à Wood's will.
[Foss's Lives of the Judges; Bramston's Autobiogr. pp. 272, 310; Luttrell's Diary, i. 449; State Trials, viii. 591, ix. 867, x. 45, 157, 515, 1315, xi. 1200, 1368, xii. 426; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. Life; and Fasti, ii. 12.]
J. A. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harrison, William George

​HARRISON, WILLIAM GEORGE (1827–1883), lawyer, born in 1827, became a ‘proper sizar’ of St. John's College, Cambridge; distinguished himself as a speaker on the conservative side at the Union; graduated as eighteenth wrangler in 1850; immediately entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar by that society in Hilary term 1853. His rise was very slow, but he gradually acquired a reputation as a sound commercial lawyer. A great many pupils attended his chambers. He took silk in 1877, and his practice went on rapidly increasing till his death at South Lodge, Edgware, 5 March 1883. He was a bencher of his inn. Harrison was survived by a widow and family. Along with G. A. Capes he wrote ‘The Joint-Stock Companies Act, 1856,’ with notes and index, 1856.
[Times, 7, 8, and 12 March 1883; Law Times, 10 March 1883, p. 345; Solicitors' Journal, 10 March 1883, p. 319.]
F. W-t.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harrod, Henry

​HARROD, HENRY (1817–1871), antiquary, was born at Aylsham in Norfolk on 30 Sept. 1817, and educated at Norwich. He was admitted an attorney in Michaelmas term 1838, and for many years was in practice at Norwich. He was for twelve years secretary to the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, and contributed many papers to their ‘Transactions.’ During this period he collected the information which in 1857 he published in ‘Gleanings among the Castles and Convents of Norfolk.’ In this volume he combined documentary evidence with proofs from architectural details, the illustrations being from his own drawings. On 16 March 1854 he was named a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, for whose ‘Proceedings’ he wrote some articles, principally on matters connected with Norfolk. He was also a contributor to the ‘Archæologia,’ his first paper, read on 3 May 1855, being ‘On some Horse-trapping found at Westhall,’ xxxvi. 454–6. In 1862 he removed to Marlborough, and entered into partnership with Richard Henry Holloway, solicitor; thence in 1865 he went to 4 Victoria Street, Westminster, where he became a professional antiquary. He was remarkable for his skill in deciphering old documents, and was employed in arranging the records of Norwich, Lynn, and other boroughs. The New England Historic and Genealogical Society elected him a corresponding member. He was busy at work on a monograph on the Tower of London when he died at 2 Rectory Grove, Clapham, Surrey, on 24 Jan. 1871. His wife was the eldest daughter of Colonel Franklin Head.
G. C. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harrod, William

​HARROD, WILLIAM (d. 1819), topographer, was son of a printer and bookseller at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, who was also for many years master of the free school there. After working some time as a journeyman printer in London, Harrod commenced business on his own account at Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he started a newspaper, which he edited and printed without much success, and became an alderman. By 1801 he had removed to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and after his father's death in December 1805 (Gent. Mag. vol. lxxv. pt. ii. p. 1179) he returned to his native town of Market Harborough. There a second marriage embroiled him in difficulties which compelled him to relinquish his business. He died in obscurity at Birmingham on 1 Jan. 1819.
Harrod published histories of the three towns in which he successively carried on his business. The titles of these works are: 1. ‘The Antiquities of Stamford and St. Martin's, compiled chiefly from the Annals of the Rev. Francis Peck, with Notes; to which is added the Present State, including Burghley,’ 2 vols. 12mo, Stamford, 1785. Harrod was here capably assisted by an eccentric Stamford apothecary named Lowe. 2. ‘The History of Mansfield and its Environs. In two parts: I. Antiquities, including a description of two Roman Villas discovered by H. Rooke, Esqr., 1786. II. The Present State. With plates,’ 4to, Mansfield, 1801. 3. ‘The History of Market-Harborough in Leicestershire, and its Vicinity,’ 8vo, 1808. ​In 1788 Harrod projected an enlarged edition of Wright's ‘History and Antiquities of Rutlandshire,’ but the work was discontinued, after the appearance of two numbers, for want of encouragement. The copper-plates and manuscripts were afterwards purchased by John Nichols. Thomas Barker (1722–1809) [q. v.], one of Harrod's patrons, contributed a history of Lyndon, which formed one of the parts published (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. iii. 112–13). In 1789 Harrod published a sale catalogue of his books (ib. iii. 679), and during a contested election at Nottingham in 1803 compiled ‘Coke and Birch. The Paper-War carried on at the Nottingham Election, 1803; containing the whole of the Addresses, Songs, Squibs, &c., circulated by the contending parties, including the Books of Accidents and Chances.’
[Gent. Mag. lxxxix. i. 584–5; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harrison, William (1812-1860)

​HARRISON, WILLIAM (1812–1860), commander of the Great Eastern, son of a master in the merchant service, was born at Maryport, Cumberland, in October 1812. He was bound an apprentice to Mr. Porter, a shipowner of Liverpool, and went to sea in October 1825. On the expiration of his articles he obtained the command of a vessel, and served in the East and West Indies, and on the coast of South America. In the course of the numerous disagreements among the rival powers on the American coast, he was more than once in action, and acquitted himself with credit. In 1834 he transferred his services to Barton, Erlam, & Higgonson, and for them took charge of vessels on the Barbadoes line. From 1842 to 31 Dec. 1855 he was connected with the Cunard line of packets trading between Liverpool and America; during that period he crossed the Atlantic upwards of one hundred and eighty times, and was one of the most popular of the commanders on that route. In January 1856 he was selected by the directors of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company out of two hundred competitors to take the command of the Great Leviathan, then building at Millwall in the Thames. In the following years ​ he was appointed to superintend the arrangements for internal accommodation and navigation. The ship being at last completed after great delay, and renamed the Great Eastern, was sent on a trial trip from Deptford to Portland Roads. When off Hastings on 9 Sept. 1859 a terrific explosion of steam killed ten of the firemen, and seriously injured several other persons. Harrison showed prompt courage and resource, and brought the vessel into Portland, although in a very damaged state. The Great Eastern was then put into winter quarters near Hurst Castle. On 21 Jan. 1860 her commander, while sailing from Hythe to Southampton in the ship's boat, was capsized during a squall near the Southampton dock gates, and when taken from the water was found to be dead. He was buried in St. James's cemetery, Liverpool, 27 Jan., when upwards of thirty thousand people followed his body to the grave. Some time previously he had become surety for a friend, by whose sudden death all his savings were lost. A sum of money was therefore raised for the benefit of his aged mother, wife, and three children.
G. C. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harrison, William (1813-1868)

​HARRISON, WILLIAM (1813–1868), vocalist and operatic manager, the son of a coal merchant, was born at Marylebone, London, 15 June 1813. He made his first appearance as an amateur concert singer in 1836, and then became a pupil at the Royal Academy of Music. During 1837 he appeared as a professional singer at the concerts of the Academy and the Sacred Harmonic Society. On 2 May 1839 he appeared on the stage at Covent Garden in ‘Henrique,’ and afterwards at Drury Lane as Thaddeus in Balfe's ‘Bohemian Girl’ (1843), Don Cæsar de Bazan in Wallace's ‘Maritana,’ and in Benedict's ‘Bride of Venice’ (1843) and ‘Crusaders’ (1846) on their first production. He afterwards played at the Princess's and the Haymarket, and in August 1854 went to the United States with Miss Louisa Pyne. On their return they joined in a scheme for establishing an English opera company. The first season commenced at the Lyceum Theatre on 21 Sept. 1857, with an English version of Auber's ‘Les Diamants de la Couronne.’ In the following year Covent Garden Theatre was engaged, and performances were given there every winter up to 19 March 1864. At first the undertaking met with great success, but it gradually languished. The company, however, produced the following new operas: Balfe's ‘Rose of Castille’ (October 1857), ‘Satanella’ (December 1858), ‘Bianca’ (December 1860), the ‘Puritan's Daughter’ (November 1861), ‘Blanche de Nevers’ (November 1862), and the ‘Armourer of Nantes’ (February 1863); Wallace's ‘Lurline’ (1860), and ‘Love's Triumph’ (1862); Benedict's ‘Lily of Killarney’ (1862); Mellon's ‘Victorine’ (1859); and William Howard Glover's ‘Ruy Blas’ (October 1861). On 8 Nov. 1864 Harrison opened Her Majesty's Theatre as sole manager with an English version of Gounod's ‘Faust;’ the season terminated on 16 March 1865, with Harrison's benefit; the opera was ‘Maritana,’ with selections from the ‘School for Scandal,’ in which Harrison took the part of Charles Surface, his first appearance in non-lyrical drama. His last appearance was at Liverpool, in May 1868, as Fritz in the ‘Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.’ He died at Kentish Town, 9 Nov. 1868, and was buried at Kensal Green. He married a daughter of Mrs. Maria Clifford, the actress, and left two sons. Harrison translated Massé's operetta, ‘Les Noces de Georgette,’ and produced it at Covent Garden in 1860 as ‘Georgette's Wedding.’ In addition to a tenor voice of remarkable purity and sweetness, he had the advantage of being an excellent actor.
[Grove's Dict. of Music and Musicians; Cooper's Biog. Dict.; Era, 15 Nov. 1868, p. 10; articles on Balfe, Michael William, and Benedict, Sir Julius.]
C. L. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harrison, William (1802-1884)

​HARRISON, WILLIAM (1802–1884), antiquary, son of Isaac Harrison, hat manufacturer and merchant, was born at Salford, Lancashire, on 11 Dec. 1802. Early in life he sought his fortune at the Cape of Good Hope. Returning to England he settled down about 1845 on a small estate of his own in the Isle of Man, where he became a member of the House of Keys, and afterwards a justice of the peace. Through his exertions the Manx Society was formed in 1858 for the publication of documents relating to the Isle of Man, and he contributed fourteen volumes to the works of the society, including ‘The Bibliotheca Monensis, a Bibliographical Account of Works relating to the Isle of Man,’ 1861, 2nd edit. 1876; ‘Manx Proverbs and Sayings, Ballads,’ &c. 1868; ‘Account of the Diocese of Sodor and Man,’ 1879; and ‘Manx Miscellanies,’ 1880. He was an occasional writer on antiquarian matters in the ‘Manchester ​Guardian’ and other papers. He married Mary Sefton Beck in 1832, and died at Rockmount, near Peel, Isle of Man, on 22 Nov. 1884.
[Manchester Guardian, 27 Nov. 1884; Pedigree of the family of Beck of Upton by M. Gregson, and continued by W. Harrison, in Misc. Gen. et Her.]
C. W. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harrison, William Frederick

​HARRISON, WILLIAM FREDERICK (1815–1880), painter in water-colour, the eldest son of Mary Harrison [q. v.], the flower-painter, was born at Amiens in 1815, three months before the battle of Waterloo. On attaining manhood he devoted much time to painting, although he was not dependent on the art for his living, having obtained a post in the Bank of England, which he retained for more than forty years. He is said to have exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Dudley, and other galleries, his favourite subjects being marine. He died at Goodwick, on Fishguard Bay, 3 Dec. 1880.
[Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers, vol. i. 1886.]
R. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Howell, John (1774-1830)

​HOWELL, JOHN (1774–1830), called Ioan ab Hywel, soldier and Welsh poet, was born in 1774 at Abergwilly, Carmarthenshire, where he received very little schooling. He was apprenticed to a weaver, but soon joined the Carmarthenshire militia, where he was employed in the band as fife-major. He served with his regiment in Ireland in 1799, and rejoined it on re-embodiment in 1803. He employed his leisure in improving his education, and was discharged as regimental schoolmaster on 24 July 1815, while the regiment was at Bristol. He then became master of the national school at Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, where he resided, with few intermissions, until his death. There he produced numerous compositions, which he sent to various bardic contests. In 1824 he brought out at Caerfyrddin by subscription a small volume entitled `Blodau Dyfed' (pp. xvi, 420), containing selections from the compositions of bards of the district in the past and present century, including some productions of his own, among which is a 'Carmarthen March.' He possessed some talent as a musician and teacher of psalmody. His Welsh poems had not much fire or subtle imagery, but were considered models of metric correctness and appropriate diction. He died on 18 Nov. 1830 at Llandovery, and was buried beside the porch of Llandingat Church.
H. M. C.
HOWELL, JOHN (1788–1863), polyartist, born at Old Lauriston, Edinburgh, in 1788, was apprenticed to a bookbinder, but