Holman, David, a Congregational minister, was born in Sutton, INIass., Dec. 13, 1777. He entered the sophomore class at Brown L'niversity in 1800, and grad- uated in 1803. He studied tlieology with his brother, the late Rev. Nathan Holman, of Attleborough, and Rev. Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, commenced preaching in Doug- lass, Mass., in the autumn of 1807, and was ordained Oct. 19, 1808. He continued pastor of the church in Doug- lass luitil Aug. 17, 1842, when he was obliged to resign on account of impaired health. " In 1848 he renewed his labors among his old flocks, and continued to perform the duties of a pastor for five years. Several re%-ivals of religion were enjoyed during his ministry, as the residts of which more than 200 were added to the Church. He died Nov. 16, 1866. See Congreg. Quarterly, ix, 208.
Holman, "William, a IMethodist Episcopal minis- ter, was born April 20, 1790, near Shelby ville, Ky., then in Virginia. He joined the Church in 1812; four years later he entered the Ohio Conference, and was appoint- ed to Limestone Circuit. In 1821 he was sent to the Newport Circuit, and a year later was appointed to Frankfort, the capital of the state. Here he built up a fine society, and remained four years. He next went to Danville and Harrodsburg, where he labored with equal zeal and success. After serving Lexington, Russel- ville, and jMt. Stirling in succession, he was appointed to Louisville, where he succeeded in building the Brook Street Church. He remained in this city "from 1833 to tlie close of his ministry-, except two years, staving all the chiu-ches either as pastor or presiding elder." During the war he separated his connection with the "M.E. Church Soutli." anil, espousing the Federal cause, "accepted a post-c!ia|il,iln(y. to the arduous duties of which he addressetl himself with a faithfiUness that was really surprising — visiting hospitals, and administering to the sick and dying night and day." He died Aug. 1, 1867. — Kedford, History of Methodism in Kentucky, ii, 374 sq.
Holmes, Abiel, D.D.. a Congregational minister, born in AVoodstock, Conn., Dec. 24, 1763, was educated at Yale College (class of 1783), and served his alma ma- ter as tutor a short time. He became pastor in Mid-
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way, Georgia, Nov. 1785, and Jan. 25, 1702, pastor of the First Church, Cambridge, Mass. When tlie increase of new theological o[iinions caused a division of tlie socie- ty, he retained his connection with the '• orthodox" por- tion of tlu' jiarisli. A colleague having been settled wilh I'iiri, he rt'sii;n(Ml his share of the duties Sept. 20, l<s:j], and jiasscd his last days at Cambridge. He died June 4, 1837. Dr. Holmes was a director of the Amer- ican Education Society, a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of several other well known as- sociations. The University of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of D.D. in 1805. He published Pro- ceediiifjs of a Cniinnl (it tlie OnUnation of Itei\ Ahiel Holmes, at Miil/rai/, (.'mri/iit, iriih tlie. Pastoral Address (1787) ■.—Life if}'n.<i,/,'.,t ,Sfi7,s { 1798, 8vo) :— J/moir of Strplim 'Piiiui<iihi.<. if IUi,l,i. with his Latin Toem translated; also Mninnr if tin M I ihcaf/an Indians: both pubUshed in vol. ix, Mas^. Jlist. CilL (1804) ■.—Ameri- can Annals (1805, 2 vols. 8vo): — JJim/ni/iliieiil .Ifemoir of the Eer. John Lotkropp, in Mass. Hist. Co//. v(,l. i, 2d series: — Historical Sketch ofthe£iiij/i.<li 'rnni.-<hiii<iiis of the Bible (1815) ■.—Memoir ofihr Fn m-li I'n,ti slmits who settled in Oxford, 3lass., in Kisd. printed in J/nss. Hist. Coll. vol. i!,'3d series {182G):— A iimils nf A nurira from the Discovery by Columbus in 141)2 to the Year 1820 (1829, 2d edit. 2 vols. 8vo) ; and a large number of occasional sermons and addresses. — Siirague, Annals, ii,240; Allen, American /Hoi/ra/ilii/ : Ihiyrkhu-k. f 'i/c/nji. of American Literatim, i. Till si].: Alli'linn,.. I iirlin,„iry^ of Authors, i,8t;.S; Aiiuriraii Aliiuimir. IS.'Jt;, p. ;)!(;.
Holmes, Robert, D.D., an English divine, born in Hampshire in 1749, was educated at New College, Ox- ford. He became successively rector of Staunton, canon of Salisbury, and finally (1804) dean of Winchester. In 1790 he succeeded Thomas Warton as professor of po- etry at Oxford. He died at Oxford in 1805. Holmes wrote The Resiu-i-ection of the Body deduced from the Resurrection of Christ (Oxf, 1777, 4to) : — On the Proph- ecies and Testimony of John the Baptist, and the parallel Prophecies of Jesus Christ (Bampton Lectures for 1782, Oxf. 1782, 8vo): — Four tracts on the Princi})les of Re- ligion as a Test of Divine Authirrllij : on the Principles of Redemption ; on the Anyelii-iil Mi .-■■■ni'ii <fllir i'irgin Mary ; and on the Resuri-eclinii <fthr lUuJii. vitli a Dis- course on Ilumility (Oxf. 1788) ; etc. But his principal work was the collation of the Septuagint. "As early as 1788 he published at Oxford proposals for a collation of all the kn( iwn :MSS. of the Septuagint — a labor which had never yet been undertaken on an extensive scale, and the want of which had long been felt among Biblical schol- ars. Dr. Holmes's imdertaking was promoted by the delegates of the Clarendon Press. In addition to the learned editor's own labors, literary men were engaged in different parts of the Continent for the business of collation, and Dr. Holmes annually pubUshed an ac- count of the progress which was made" (Kitto). The book of Genesis, successively followed by the other books of the Pentateuch, making together one folio vol- ume, with one title-page and one general preface, was published at Oxford in 1798. From this preface we learn that eleven Greek MSS. in uncial letters, and more than one hundred ]\ISS. in cursive writing (containing either tlie whole or jjarts of the Pentateuch), were col- lated for this edition, of which the text was a copy of the Eoman edition of 1587 [that of Sixtus Y] : the devi- ations from three other cardinal editions (the Complu- tensian, the Aldine, and Grabe's) are always noted. The quotations found in the works of the Greek fathers are also alleged, and likewise the various readings of the an- cient versions made from the Septuagint. " The plan of this edition thus bore a close resemblance to what had been already applied by IVIill, Wetstein, and Griesbach to the criticism of the Greek Testament, and the execu- tion of it has been highly commended as dis]5laying un- common industry' and apjjarently great accuracy." It is to be regretted that "the learned editor died in the midst of this honorable labor; but shortly before his