Eardley Lancelot Holland

Sir Eardley Lancelot Holland (October 29, 1879 – July 21, 1967) FRCS, FRCP, FRCOG was a British surgeon and foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

"[3] He spent time in Germany early in his career, with the distinguished gynaecologists Olhausen, Bumm, and Orth.

"[5] He was a temporary captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I during which time he was in command of No.

[7] Between 1937-1940 he was advisor in obstetrics to the Ministry of Health and organised the evacuation of pregnant women out of London at the start of World War II.

Senior obstetricians in each region were tasked with collecting data about each death due to pregnancy or childbirth.

The burden was always somewhat mollified by refreshment in the form of beer, but as well the chief’s secretary saw to it that his needs for tobacco were fully met by a row of pipes filled by herself and left ready.

Holland was a member of the Central Midwives Board; editor of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire; a member of the Board of Advanced Medical Studies of London University; and examiner in midwifery and diseases of women to the universities of Cambridge, London, and Durham, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Central Midwives Board… He was also a member of the General Council of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, where he interested him-self particularly in the provision of radium for the treatment of cancer.

[14] In fact, it was four months after Dorothy died, on 13 February 1952, that Eardley married "quietly in London... Miss Olivia Constable… only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. L. L.

"[15] Holland was described by colleagues writing in response to his obituaries as "not immune to an irritable impatience" and "upright and grand, almost haughty".

She described him in her memoir: At breakfast he gloomily, silently, savagely surveyed five females from the far end of the table, frowning, then with a grunted Umph!

[18] One of his collaborators on the textbook British Obstetric Practice said, he had "a genius for friendship, which was evident in all the gatherings of his colleagues, owing to his lively interest in their affairs and work and a capacity or real affection for his close friends.