The life of Thomas Hollis / [Anon].

  • Thomas Hollis
Date:
[1780]
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Credit: The life of Thomas Hollis / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -;-- ■ ■ -——-- ' •' . ~~~ The Life of THOMAS HOLLIS. THOMAS HOLLIS, of Corfcomhe, in the county of Dor- fet, Efquire, a moft zealous ana illuflrious friend of civil, and religious liberty, was born in London, in the year 1720. He was defcended, by his father’s fide, from a refpettable family, ori¬ ginally of Yorkihire, but which had been long fettled in London. His mother was the daughter of Mr. Scott, of Wolverhampton, in whofe family he was nurtured in his infancy, till he was four or five years of age. From Wolverhampton he. was brought to Lon¬ don, and, after fome time, was lent, to the free-fchool at NeWporc in Shropfhire, where he remained till he was eight or nine years old. He was then removed to St. Alban’s, and, in his thirteenth, or fourteenth year, he was lent to Amfterdam, to learn the Dutch and French languages, writing, arithmetiek, and accompts; and having fpent about fifteen months in that city, he returned to London, to his father, of whom he had the misfortune to be de¬ prived, fbon after; for he died in the year 1735 (a), Mr. Hollis being left by his father to the care of a guardian, there feems to have been fome doubt amongfl his friends, whether hefhould not be bred in the mercantile way ; but it was foon de¬ termined, that he Should have another fort of education, fuitable to the ample fortune he was to inherit, from his father, and his great uncle Thomas, a confiderable merchant, who died without iliac, a few years before. For this purpofe he was put under the tuition of the learned Dr, Ward, Prpfeflbr of Rhetoric!:, in Grefham College, where he fludied the languages, but chiefly Latin, and went through a courfe of logick, rhetonck, hiltory, and other branches of learning, agreeably to the liberal plan laid down for him (b). He was alfo intimately acquainted with. Dr. ring, Mnemofynon Patris Tutorifque; and Dr. Ward he always mentioned with efleem and refpebi, as his old excellent mailer and much-honoured friend; and to preferve the memory of lo valuable a man, he prefented the Doctor’s pitiure to the Britifli Mufeum,™Memoirs, P.5. 'wHv ~X. c a, i (a) Metpoirs of Thomas Hollis, Efq; F.R. and A.S.S. 2 Vols. 4to. London MDCCLXXX. * (bj A gratelul fenfe of the atten¬ tion paid to his education by tHefe worthy curators remained with-Mr. Hollis all his life. In honour of his father and guardian, he caifledto be iuf’cribed, round a valuable diamond
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