“ Holland succeeded Dr. Adams as Assessor in the Chancellor's Court at Oxford, a civil tribunal exercising jurisdiction in cases where members of the University are concerned. He set himself to recast and improve the rules of the Court, and he tool the lead in procuring an Order in Council to alter the somewhat irrational system of appeals. He was not afraid to revise the scared volume of the "Corpus Statutorum," and during Jowett's Vice-Chancellorship considerable progress was made in the codification of the existing law of the University. ”

“ Before many years elapsed Holland found himself an honorary professor of Perugia, an honorary citizen of San Ginesio, where Alberigo was born, and a knight of the Crown of Italy. He did much to advance and to develop the special study for which he was responsible. In 1875 he became an Associate and later a full member of the Institut de Droit International. In 1880 he invited the members to meet in oxford, where they lived in college rooms. ”

“ Holland joined two essay societies, one being the famous Old Mortality, of which Bryce, T. H. Green, and Dicey were members. He was also stroke of the Magdalen boat. His industry was rewarded with a first class in Lit. Hum., and he was elected a Fellow of Exeter College, where he spent part of his probationary year in teaching philosophy; he gained the Chancellor's prize for an English essay on the advantages of charitable endowments. ”