Hugh Holland (1563–1633), the son of Robert Holland, was born in

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, north of

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. He was educated at

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under

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, where he excelled in

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and met playwright and poet

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, with whom he established an "enduring friendship". In 1589, he proceeded to

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on a

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. On completion of his studies, he travelled abroad, as far as

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, where unguarded remarks about Queen Elizabeth caused him some trouble, and

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, where he may have been made a

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of the

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. On his return journey he received a reprimand from the English ambassador in

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for the 'former freedom of his tongue'. On settling back in England, he took up residence in

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, where he pursued his reading, and then in London. He failed to secure preferment, but enjoyed the patronage of the

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, George Villiers who introduced him to King James. He wrote poetry, most notably a collection entitled ''Cypress Garland'' (1625), and was buried in

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on 28 July 1633. His memory as a man of letters is associated with the laudatory sonnet he wrote on

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, which was printed in the

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(1623). He was married to Ursula, widow of Robert Woodard of

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, with whom he had three children: a daughter named Phil and two sons, Martin and Arbellinus. Anthony à Wood recorded a copy of his

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, in which Holland described himself as ''Miserimus peccator, musarum et amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus.''

Works

*''Pancharis: the first Booke. Containing the Preparation of the Love between Owen Tudyr and the Queene, long since intended to her Maiden Majestie and now dedicated to the Invincible James,'' (1603). *'' A Cypres Garland. For the Sacred Forehead of our late Soveraigne King James,'' (1625). *

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s appended to

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's ''Canzonets'', (1598) *Commendatory verses to

's ''

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'', (1605) *Commendatory verses to

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's ''Elements of Armory'', (1610) *Commendatory verses to

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's ''

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'', (1611)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Holland, Hugh 1563 births 1633 deaths People from Denbigh People educated at Westminster School, London 16th-century Welsh writers 16th-century male writers 17th-century Welsh writers 17th-century male writers 16th-century Welsh poets 17th-century Welsh poets Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre