About James Francis Hollings
Lived 1806 – 1862 (aged 55–56). James Francis Hollings was a writer, academic and historian.
James Francis Hollings (1806 – 1862) was an English historian, poet and author.
He is famous mostly for his biographies of Marcus Tullius Cicero and the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.
Biography
Hollings was born on April 15, 1806.
In 1837, Hollings moved to Leicester, where he worked as a schoolteacher at the Proprietary School on New Walk, which "declared itself to be unsectarian, liberal and utilitarian". Circa 1846, Hollings became the school's headmaster, though the school eventually closed in the winter of 1847.
The life of Gustavus Adolphus, surnamed the Great, King of Sweden.
The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The History of Leicester During the Great Civil War
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historian, poet and barrister (1806-1862)
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James Francis Hollings died in 1862.
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James Francis Hollings was a writer, academic and historian.
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