Hugh Holland

Topic: Hugh Holland

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Michelle O’Callaghan writes:

“The Latin poem dramatizing a ‘Convivium Philosophicum’, held in honour of Thomas Coryate at the Mitre Tavern sometime between 1609 and 1612, lists Brooke, John Donne, Lionel Cranfield, Arthur Ingram, Sir Robert Phelips, Sir Henry Neville, Richard Connock, John Hoskyns, Richard Martin, Henry Goodyere, John West, Hugh Holland, and Inigo Jones at this meeting.”

• The Westminster Abbey biographical notice for Hugh Holland states:

“one of his sonnets was prefixed to the first folio of Shakespeare.”

• Source-hardening check of O'Callaghan's PDF confirms that the Convivium list should be treated as part of a political-literary Sireniac/Mermaid environment, not merely as a social attendance fact. Holland's importance here is therefore two-layered: a Convivium name beside Neville, and a later First Folio commendatory-poem figure.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• A Ken Feinstein tweet dated 17 Oct. 2021 states:

“I didn't realize that @ZacharyLesser came down on the side of Henry Neville of Billingbear attending the convivium philosophicum -- not his cousin. That puts Henry Neville in the same room with Hugh Holland of First Folio fame.”

• The same tweet thread states:

“Hugh Holland. John Donne. Henry Goodyere. Christopher Brooke. All at the same party -- with Henry Neville.”

• A Ken Feinstein source file also preserves the statement:

“Clear as day. Henry Neville’s name next to Hugh Holland. Yes. The same Hugh Holland who wrote the poem for the First Folio. Yes that’s John Donne’s name there.”

• Ken Feinstein’s 17 Oct. 2021 tweet thread emphasizes the Holland/Neville proximity in the Convivium Philosophicum attendee list and treats it as important First Folio network evidence.

3. Citations

• O’Callaghan, Michelle. “‘Talking Politics’: Tyranny, Parliament, and Christopher Brooke’s The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614).” The Historical Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, 1998, pp. 97-120. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2640146. Local PDF: GhostRichard.pdf.
• “Hugh Holland.” Westminster Abbey, https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/hugh-holland.
• Feinstein, Ken. “I didn't realize that @ZacharyLesser came down on the side of Henry Neville of Billingbear attending the convivium philosophicum -- not his cousin. That puts Henry Neville in the same room with Hugh Holland of First Folio fame.” X, 17 Oct. 2021, https://twitter.com/user/status/1449584817671000067. Local archive: twitter_Hugh_Holland.md.
• twitter_Hugh_Holland.md, local tweet archive.
• Neville_Book_Material_v9/People/Hugh_Holland.md, local source file preserving the “Clear as day” statement.
• convivium_philosophicum_and_thomas_coryate.md, related packet for the Convivium witness.

4. Local Image Witnesses

5. Notes on Access

• The strongest direct historical witness in hand for Hugh Holland’s Neville connection is O’Callaghan’s quotation from the Convivium Philosophicum attendee list.
• Source-hardening result, 2026-04-27: O'Callaghan supports the political-literary network context around the Convivium. The Westminster Abbey page supports Holland's First Folio sonnet, but does not by itself connect Holland to Neville.
• The Westminster Abbey page is used here only for the specific modern biographical statement that Holland contributed a sonnet to the First Folio.
• The Ken Feinstein tweet layer is preserved explicitly as Ken Feinstein interpretation and source-location guidance, not recast here as unattributed factual prose.