Hugh Holland

Hugh Holland (1563–1633) was a Welsh writer.

Biography Holland was born in Denbigh in Denbighshire, north of Wales. The son of Robert Holland. He was educated at Westminster School under William Camden, where he excelled in classics and met playwright and poet Ben Jonson, with whom he established an "enduring friendship". In 1589, he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge on a scholarship. On completion of his studies, he travelled abroad, as far as Rome, where unguarded remarks about Queen Elizabeth caused him some trouble, and Jerusalem, where he may have been made a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. On his return journey he received a reprimand from the English ambassador in Constantinople for the 'former freedom of his tongue'.

Works Pancharis: the first Booke. Containing the Preparation of the Love between Owen Tudyr and the Queene, long since intended to her Maiden Majestie and now dedicated to the Invincible James, (1603). A Cypres Garland. For the Sacred Forehead of our late Soveraigne King James, (1625). Commendatory verses appended to Giles Farnaby's Canzonets, (1598) Commendatory verses to Ben Jonson's Sejanus (play), (1605) Commendatory verses to Edmund Bolton's Elements of Armory, (1610) Commendatory verses to Thomas Coryate's The Odcombian Banquet, (1611)