Henry Scott Holland

Henry Scott Holland (January 27, 1847 - March 17, 1918) was a professor of theology at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of the Church of Christ at Oxford. Scott Holland's memorial lectures are held in his memory. He was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in the family of George Henry Holland (1818-1891) of Dumbleton Hall, Evesham and the Hon. Charlotte Dorothy Gifford, daughter of Lord Gifford. He was educated at Eton, where he was a student of influential craftsman William Johnson Cory, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a first-class degree in the Great. During his Oxford time, he was strongly influenced by T.H. Green. He had Oxford degrees DD, MA and Honorary DLitt.