HOLDSWORTH, EDWARD, a very polite and elegant ſcholar, was born about 1688, and educated at Wincheſter ſchool. He was thence elected demy of Magdalen college, Oxford, in July 1705; took the degree of M. A. in April 1711; became a college-tutor, and had many pupils. In 1715, when he was to be choſen into a fellowship, he reſigned his demyſhip and left the college, becauſe unwilling to ſwear allegiance to the new government. The remainder of his life was ſpent in travelling with young noblemen and gentlemen as tutor; in 1741 and 1744 he was at Rome in this capacity. He died of a fever at Lord Digby's houſe at Colethill in Warwickſhire, December 30. 1747. He was the author of the "Muſicipula," a poem, eſteemed a maſter-piece in its kind, and of which there is a good Engliſh tranſlation by Dr John Hoadley, in vol. 5. of Dodſley's Miſcellanies. He was the author alſo of a diſſertation, entitled "Pharſalia and Philippi; or the two Philippi in Virgil's Georgics attempted to be explained and reconciled to History, 1741," 4to: and of "Remarks and Diſſertations on Virgil; with ſome other claſſical Obſervations, publiſhed with ſeveral notes and additional remarks by Mr Spence, 1768," 4to. Mr Spence ſpeaks of him in Polymetis, as one who underſtood Virgil in a more maſterly manner than any perſon he ever knew.