HOLLY, JAMES THEODORE: Protestant Epis copal missionary bishop of Haiti; b. at Washington, D. C., Oct. 3, 1829. His parents were colored Ro YAan Catholics, and he was educated at Washing ton, New York, Buffalo, and Detroit. At the age of twenty-one he became a convert from the Roman Catholic to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and after being associate editor of The Voice of the Fugitive at Windsor, Ont., from 1851 to 1853, and principal of a public school in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1854, he was ordered deacon in 1855 and ordained priest in the following year. He was then rector of St. Luke's, New Haven, Conn., for five years (1856-61), after which he was a missionary at Haiti (1861-74). In 1874 he was consecrated bishop of Haiti. He

was also consul of Liberia at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from 1864 to 1874.

HOLMES, ROBERT: English Biblical scholar; b. in London 1748 (baptized at St. Martin's-in-theFields Nov. 30); d. at Oxford Nov. 12, 1805. He was educated at Winchester College, and at New College, Oxford (B.A., 1770; M.A., 1774; B.D., 1787; D.D., 1789). In 1770 he obtained a fellowship in New College, and subsequently the college rectory of Stanton St. John's, Oxfordshire. He was Bampton lecturer in 1782, and in 1783 he succeeded John Randolph as professor of poetry. He received prebends in Salisbury Cathedral (1790), Hereford Cathedral (1791), and Christ Church, Oxford (1795). He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1797, and was made dean of Winchester in 1804. He published his Bampton lectures, On the Propheciesand Testimony of John the Baptist, and the Parallel Prophecies of Jesus Christ (Oxford, 1782), and several theological tracts and sermons. Most of these writings were included in Treatises on. Religious and Scriptural Subjects (1806). His great work, however, was his collation of the text of the Septuagint, Vetus Testamentum Gracum cum variis lectionxbus (5 vols., 1798-1827; see Bible Versions, A, I., 1, § 2). In this important undertaking, to which he devoted the last seventeen years of his life, Holmes was assisted by many scholars in the libraries throughout Europe, and supported financially by the delegates of the Clarendon Press. After his death the work of editing the 142 manuscript volumes of collations, which had been deposited in the Bodleian Library, was completed by James Parsons. During the progress of the work annual reports were published, which are of bibliographical interest.

Bibliography: DNB, xxvii. 197-198; T. H. Horne, Introduction to the Holy Scriptures, bibliographical appendix, I., section v., § 2, no. 15, New York 1867; E, Riehm, Einkitung in das A. T., pp. 501 sqq., Halle, 1890; C. A. Briggs, Study of Holy Scripture, pp. 207 et passim, New York, 1899; H. B. $wete, Introduction to the O. T. in Greek, pp. 185 sqq., Cambridge, 1900.