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Death Of Canon Scott Holland. Oxford Professor And London Preacher. Death of Canon Scott Holland. Oxford Professor and London Preacher. Henry Scott Holland was the eldest son of Mr. He was born near Ledbury on January 27, , and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in with a first class in Lit. He had previously taken a third class in Moderations, from which it may be assumed that his bent was more philosophy than for verbalia.

In the same year he was elected to a Senior Studentship of Christ Church, where he became tutor in He was ordained deacon in and priest in by Dr. Mackarness, and quickly made his way to the front as a stirring and original preacher. In he was senior proctor. His work at Christ Church lasted some 15 years; he was a successful "Greats" teacher; but under the influence of Liddon the preacher in him outran the philosopher.

"Obituary: Canon Scott Holland.

It is difficult to realize that Scott Holland's merry, boisterous, ebullient disposition could have entrusted itself to Liddon's precise and uncompromising sway, but so it was, and it was all the more surprising as Liddon himself had kept himself deliberately aloof from the speculative and logical methods that were guiding the thought of young Oxford.

Another influence was concerned with the Church in the West. He found himself greatly drawn towards the first Bishop of Truro, and was so struck by Benson's addresses at a retreat at Koble that he wrote to Mr.