Barten Holyday

Barten Holyday
Archdeacon of Oxford
Appointed1626
Personal details
Born1593 (1593)
Died2 October 1661(1661-10-02) (aged 67–68)
Iffley, Oxfordshire, England
EducationChrist Church, Oxford (DDiv)

Barten Holyday or Holiday (1593 – 2 October 1661) was an English clergyman, author and poet.

Life

Holyday was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and earned a Doctor of Divinity degree. Holyday travelled with Sir Francis Stewart on Stewart's mission to Spain; he owed his introduction to Stewart to Richard Corbet. Holyday formed part of the escort of Count Gondomar returning to Spain.

In 1619 Holyday was ordained deacon, and in 1621 priest. In 1623 he became vicar of Ashleworth and Brize Norton.

For the 1625 accession day of King James I, Holyday preached at St Paul's Cross a political sermon on unity. It was in marked contrast to a sermon preached at the same period by the royal chaplain Daniel Price that hinted at religious divisions fostered at court. Holyday was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford by King Charles I in 1625.

Holyday died at Iffley on 2 October 1661, "of an Ague, or of the new Epidemical Disease which now raged." He was buried at Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford.

Works

Technogamia, title page

Holyday was summed up by Adolphus William Ward as "a good scholar, a shrewd critic, and a fair wit."

Holyday also translated the Odes of Horace, and wrote sermons. Of the poets Thomas May, George Sandys and Holyday as translators, Samuel Johnson wrote in The Idler that

[...] they confined themselves to the toil of rendering line for line, not indeed with equal felicity, for May and Sandys were poets, and Holiday only a scholar and a critic.

When Holyday in 1616 wrote of his "moderate paraphrase" as translator, against pedantry, he presaged a later attitude of John Denham.

Family

Holyday married, firstly in 1628, Elizabeth Wickham; they had three sons and two daughters. After her death, he married secondly in 1649 the widow Margaret Sheppard, previously married to the Rev. Francis Dewey, a Christ Church graduate; they had a son and a daughter.

References

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  2. ↑ "Hieron-Horridge, British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  3. ↑ Cavanaugh, Sister Mary Jean Carmel (1942). Technogamia by Barten Holyday: A Critical Edition. Catholic University of America Press. p. xv.
  4. ↑ "Holliday, Barton (1619–1641)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. CCEd Person ID 13347.
  5. ↑ Shami, Jeanne (2003). John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit. DS Brewer. pp. 263–265. ISBN 978-0-85991-789-6.
  6. ↑ Kiessling, Nicolas K. (2010). The Life Of Anthony Wood In His Own Words. Bodleian Library. p. 90. ISBN 9781851243082.
  7. ↑ Clark, Andrew, ed. (1891). The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary of Oxford, 1632-1695, Described by Himself. Oxford: Oxford Historical Society. p. 416. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  8. ↑ Adolphus William Ward, A History of English Drama to the Death of Queen Anne, London, Macmillan, 1899; Vol. 3, pp. 176–8.
  9. ↑ Donaldson, Ian (20 February 2012). Ben Jonson: A Life. OUP Oxford. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-19-163679-0.
  10. ↑ Milton, Anthony. "Heylyn, Peter (1599–1662)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13171. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ↑ Nichols, John (1828). The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First : his royal consort, family, and court ; collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., &c. Vol. IV. London : Printed by and for J.B. Nichols. p. 715 note 1.
  12. ↑ Donaldson, Ian (20 February 2012). Ben Jonson: A Life. OUP Oxford. pp. 739-740 note 20. ISBN 978-0-19-163679-0.
  13. ↑ Cavanaugh, Sister Mary Jean Carmel, ed. (1942). Technogamia by Barten Holyday: A Critical Edition. Catholic University of America Press.
  14. ↑ Holyday, Barten (1633). Philosophiae polito-barbarae specimen, in quo De anima & ejus habitibus intellectualibus quaestiones aliquot: libris duobus (in Latin). Excudebat Guilielmus Turner.
  15. ↑ Madan, Francis Falconer (1895). Oxford Books : a Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University and City of Oxford, Or Printed Or Published There: The early Oxford press, 1468-1640. Vol. I. Clarendon Press. p. 170.
  16. ↑ Holyday, Barten (1661). Against Disloyalty Fower Sermons Preach'd in the Times of the Late Troubles. Oxford.
  17. ↑ Elmer, Peter (14 January 2016). Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press. p. 9 note 71. ISBN 978-0-19-102752-9.
  18. ↑ Holyday, Barten (1661). A Survey of the World: In Ten Books by Barten Holyday D.D. and Archdeacon of Oxford. Will. Hall.
  19. ↑ Havely, N. R. (2014). Dante's British Public: Readers and Texts, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present. Oxford University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-19-921244-6.
  20. ↑ Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and Aulus Persius Flaccus Translated and Illustrated, as Well with Sculpture as Notes. Translated by Holyday, Barten. Oxford: W. Downing. 1673.
  21. ↑ Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1883. p. 76.
  22. ↑ Alexander Chalmers, ed., The General Biographical Dictionary, London, J. Nichols & Son, et al., 1814; Vol. 18, pp. 95–6.
  23. ↑ Johnson, Samuel (1873). Works. Vol. I. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 422–423.
  24. ↑ Venuti, Lawrence (25 June 2012). The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-136-61724-9.
  25. ↑ "Dabbe-Dirkin, Alumni Oxononienses, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.