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Jan. or Feb., planting out in May 

 for summer flowering. If left un- 

 disturbed for three or four seasons 

 they may produce an interesting 

 variety of self-sown plants of both 

 single and double sorts. 



Holman, JAMES (1786-1857). 

 British traveller. The son of a 

 chemist, he was born at Exeter, 

 Oct. 15, 1786, served in the navy, 

 1798-1810, and had reached the 

 rank of lieutenant when he became 

 totally blind. A man of remarkable 

 strength of will, he studied for a 

 time at Edinburgh University, and 

 in 1812 was made a naval knight 

 of Windsor. Obtaining leave to 

 travel, he visited France, Italy, 

 Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and 

 Holland, 1819-21 ; Russia, Siberia, 

 where he was arrested as a spy, 

 Poland, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, 

 and Hanover, 1822-24; made a 

 voyage round the world, 1827-32 ; 

 and then travelled in Spain, Portu- 

 gal, S.E. Europe, Syria, and Turkey. 

 He published three accounts of his 

 wanderings, and was preparing a 

 book on his later journeys when he 

 died in London, July 29, 1857, 

 leaving his MSS., which remain 

 unprinted, to a friend. He was 

 a F.R.S. 



Holman, JOSEPH GEORGE (1764- 

 1817). British actor and dramatist. 

 The son of an army officer, he was 

 born in Aug., 1764, and educated 

 at Queen's College, Oxford. He 

 made a highly successful debut at 

 Covent Garden, Oct. 25, 1784, as 

 Romeo. After three seasons he 

 severed his connexion with Covent 

 Garden and went to Dublin and 

 Edinburgh. In 1812 he left Eng- 

 land for the U.S.A., where he met 

 with great success. He died at 

 Long Island, Aug. 24, 1817. He 

 was twice married, his first wife 

 (d. 1810) being a granddaughter 

 of the duke of Hamilton. As an 

 actor he was for a time a rival of 

 John Kemble, and won apprecia- 

 tion from Lamb and Macready, his 

 successes including Hamlet and 

 Colonel Townley. His plays belong 

 to the school of Holcroft, and are 

 now negligible. 



Holman, WILLIAM ARTHUR (b. 

 1871). Australian politician. Born 

 in London, he went to Australia in 



W. A. Holman, 

 Australian politician 



Russell 



1888, and as 

 a journalist 

 edited Vedette, 

 1895-98. In 

 1898 he entered 

 the N.S.W. 

 legislative as- 

 sembly. He 

 studied law, 

 and was called 

 to the bar in 

 1903, and be- 

 came attorney- 

 general in the McGowen state 

 ministry, 1910-13. In 1916 Hol- 

 man became premier of N.S.W. 

 and leader of the labour party 

 in that state. The extremists of 

 the party hindered the success- 

 ful prosecution of the state's 

 activities in connexion with the 

 Great War, and a crisis arose on 

 conscription. After the adverse 

 decision on the latter Holman and 

 W. M. Hughes were expelled from 

 the labour party. 



Holme Lacy, 



Herefordshire. The 

 17th century house 



Holmby House, Northamptonshire. The modern 



manor house, built in the 19th century 



In Dec., 1916, Holman led a new 

 national party, and was returned 

 with a large majority at the N.S.W. 

 state elections held March, 1917, 

 and again became premier. He 

 visited England and France in 

 1917, and narrowly escaped death 

 while visiting the trenches with 

 General William Holmes (q.v.). As 

 the result of his defeat at the state 

 elections in March, 1920, he an- 

 nounced his intention of giving 

 up politics for the law. 



Holmby House. Name of a 

 Northamptonshire mansion. The 

 existing Holmby (or Holdenby) 

 House was built in the 19th cent., 

 its predecessor being one of the 



-i great 16th cent. 



i domestic 

 j Here James I 

 j said to have 

 IMjk ' stayed, and Charles 



!gg ; I was forcibly 'de- 



tained for some 

 months after his 

 surrender to the 

 Scots at Newark- 

 on-Trent. Holmby 

 House boasted a 

 larger frontage 

 even than Blen- 



heim Palace and Castle Howard, 

 its main facade measuring no less 

 than 360 ft. The only remains of 

 the original building are two arch- 

 ways and part of the north side of 

 the second quadrangle. 



Holme Cultram. Urban dist. 

 and parish (Holme Abbey) of 

 Cumberland, England. It stands 

 on the Waver, 5 m. N.W. of 

 Wigton. The church of S. Mary 

 occupies the site of a 12th cent. 

 Cistercian abbey, and was restored 

 in 1885. Among the monuments is 

 the tomb of Robert Bruce, father 

 of the Scottish king of that name. 

 Farming implements are manufac- 

 tured. The council has erected a 

 sea-wall for the protection of the 

 road between Silloth and Skin 

 burness. Pop. 4,494. 



Holme Lacy. Parish and village 

 of Herefordshire, England. It 

 stands on the Wye, 5 m. S.E of 

 Hereford, on the G.W.R. Holme 

 Lacy House, formerly the seat of 



the Scudamorea 



and more recently 

 i of the earl of Ches- 

 \ terfield, is a fine 

 I \ 17th cent, build- 



ing containing a 

 splendid collection 

 of pictures and 

 some excellent 

 wood-carvings by 

 Grinling Gibbons. 

 In the Norman 

 church, dedicated 

 to S. Cuthbert, 

 are noteworthy 

 monuments of 

 the Scudamore family. Pop. 263. 

 Holmes, SIR CHARLES JOHN (b. 

 1868). British art critic and painter. 

 Born at Stratton, Cornwall, Nov. 

 11, 1868, he was educated at Eton 

 and Oxford and studied at the 

 Slade school. He edited The 

 Burlington Magazine, 1903-9 ; was 

 Slade professor at Oxford, 1904- 

 10 ; director and secretary of the 

 National Portrait Gallery, 1909-16 ; 

 director of the National Gallery, 

 1916; and knighted! 921. Member 

 of the New English Art Club, 

 he exhibited landscapes which, with 

 his Notes on the Science of Pic- 

 ture-Making, 1909, and on the Art 

 of Rembrandt, 

 1911, virtually 

 summarise his 

 philosophy o f 

 art. He has 

 also published 

 an appreciation 

 of H o k u s a i, 

 1898. There 

 are examples 

 of his art at the 

 Tate Gallery, 

 the Ashmolean EIUOII & Fry 

 Museum, Oxford, and at Man- 

 chester and Johannesburg. 



front of the 



Sir C. J. Holmes, 

 British art critic 



