Barten Holyday or Holiday (1593 – 2 October 1661) was an English clergyman, author and poet.
[1] He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and earned a Doctor of Divinity degree.
[2] He entered the clergy in 1615; he was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford by King Charles I in 1626.
[3] He was summed up by one commentator as "a good scholar, a shrewd critic, and a fair wit.
He was subject of a derisory poem called "Whoop Holiday", published in 1625 by Peter Heylin[5] Holyday died at Iffley in Oxfordshire on 2 October 1661, "of the new epidemicall disease that rageth now abroad" and was buried at Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford.