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Henry Holland, 1st baronet

1788–1873

Physician. Related to Josiah Wedgwood I; second cousin of CD and Emma Darwin. Physician-in-ordinary to Prince Albert, 1840; to Queen Victoria, 1852. President of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1865–73. Created baronet, 1853. FRS 1815.

Sources

Caroe 1985

DNB

Emma Darwin (1904)

Record of the Royal Society of London

Bibliography

Caroe, Gwendolen Mary. 1985. The Royal Institution: an informal history. With a final chapter by Alban Caroe. London: John Murray.

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. Cambridge: privately printed by Cambridge University Press. 1904.

Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.

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