Lord Holland

An unqualifed mention of Lord Holland could refer any of the holders of the following titles:

  • Earl of Holland, created in the Peerage of England in 1624, became extinct in 1759.
  • Baron Holland, of Holland in the County of Lincoln, and Baron Holland, of Foxley in the County of Wiltshire, were two titles in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or holland:

    “We enter church, and we have to say, “We have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep,” when what we want to say is, “Why are we made to err and stray like lost sheep?” Then we have to sing, “My soul doth magnify the Lord,” when what we want to sing is “O that my soul could find some Lord that it could magnify!””
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
    —Jack Holland (b. 1947)