Richard Holland was a physician and medical writer. He graduated MD in 1723 at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Holland was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1724, Censor in 1728, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726. His book ‘Observations on the Small Pox’ was published in 1728. Holland died a bachelor in 1730.
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‘Richard Holland (1688-1730)’, in Alan Cameron, ‘Holland , John (1658-1721)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13531 [accessed 15 Aug 2013]).
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