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Baron Henry Richard Vassall Holland
1773–1840
A central Whig voice in early 19th-century Britain, he was known as much for his politics as for the lively intellectual world gathered at Holland House. His writing and conversation helped make him a memorable link between public life and literary society.
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Further memoirs of the Whig party, 1807-1821 : with some miscellaneous reminiscences
by Baron Henry Richard Vassall Holland
About the author
Born in 1773, Baron Holland was an English Whig politician and a prominent figure in liberal politics in the early 1800s. He was the grandson of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and the nephew and political disciple of Charles James Fox, whose ideas strongly shaped his outlook.
He sat in the House of Lords and served as Lord Privy Seal in the Ministry of All the Talents from 1806 to 1807. Beyond formal office, he became especially well known for Holland House in Kensington, which developed into one of the great political and literary salons of the age.
He also wrote on political and historical subjects, and contemporaries remembered him as a cultivated host with wide European interests and connections. That mix of politics, sociability, and letters gives him a lasting place in the story of British public life.