John Holliday (c.1730–1801) was an English lawyer and author, a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1786.
[1] Holliday was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn on 5 May 1759 and was called to the bar on 23 April 1771.
He died at his house in Great Ormonde Street, London, on 9 March 1801, aged 71.
[1][2] Holliday published:[2] He published a memoir of Owen Salusbury Brereton in the Transactions of the Society of Arts; and left in manuscript a verse translation of the first eight books of the Aeneid, and a collection of conveyancing precedents.
They had an only child Eliza Lydia, who married on 2 June 1791 Francis Buller-Yarde MP, and died on 1 November 1851, aged 77.