Henry Holland (architect), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English architect
Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1745
Place of Birth: Fulham, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 17-Jun-1806
Profession: architect
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Henry Holland (architect)
- Henry Holland (20 July 1745 – 17 June 1806) was an architect to the English nobility. He was born in Fulham, London, where his father, also Henry, ran a building firm constructing several of Capability Brown's designs.
- His younger brother was Richard Holland, who later changed his surname to Bateman-Robson and became an MP.
- Although Henry would learn a lot from his father about the practicalities of construction, it was under Capability Brown that he would learn about architectural design. Brown and Holland formed a partnership in 1771 and Henry Holland married Brown's daughter Bridget on 11 February 1773 at St George's, Hanover Square.
- In 1772 Sir John Soane joined Holland's practice in order to further his education, leaving in 1778 to study in Rome.
- Holland paid a visit to Paris in 1787 which is thought to have been in connection with his design of the interiors at Carlton House.
- From this moment on his interior work owed less to the Adam style and more to contemporary French taste. Holland was a founder member in 1791 of the Architects' Club, which included Thomas Hardwick as a signatory.
- In the 1790s he translated into English A.M.
- Cointereaux's Traite sur la construction des Manufactures, et des Maisons de Champagne.
- Holland was feeling unwell in the early summer of 1806, on 13 June he had a seizure and his son Lancelot made this entry in his diary on 17 June, 'My poor father breathed his last about 7 o'clock in the morning.
- He had got out of bed shortly before and inquired what the hour was.
- Being told he said is was too early to rise and got into bed again.
- He immediately fell into a fit.
- I was sent for, and a minute after I came to his bedside he breathed his last.'.
- He was buried at All Saints Church, Fulham, in a simple tomb, a few yards from the house in which he had been born.
- Bridget Holland his wife lived for another 17 years and was the main beneficiary of her husband's will.
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