HOLLAND, PHILEMON, M. D. commonly called the translator general of his age, was educated in the university of Cambridge. He was for many years a schoolmaster at Coventry, where he also practised physic. He translated Livy, Pliny's Natural History, Plutarch's Morals, Suetonius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Xenophon's Cyropædia, and Camden's Britannia, into English; and the geographical part of Speed's Theatre of Great Britain into Latin. The Britannia, to which he made many useful additions, was the most valuable of his works. It is surprising that a man of two professions could find time to translate so much; but it appears from the date of the Cyropædia, that he continued to translate till he was 80 years of age. He died in 1637, aged 85. He made the following epigram upon writing a large folio with a single pen:
With one sole pen I wrote this book,
Made of a grey goose quill;
A pen it was when it I took,
And a pen I leave it still.