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Barten Holyday or Holiday, (1593 – 2 November 1661), was a clergyman, author and poet.

Life and education
Holyday was the son of Thomas Holiday, a tailor, and was born in All Saints’ parish, Oxford, in 1593.

At the age of 12, he matriculated at Christ Church, 13 December 1605, and was admitted B.A. 14 May 1612 and M.A. 15 June 1615. . In 1642 was created D.D. by the king’s letters. He died on 2 November 1661, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral.

Clergyman
In 1618 he went to Spain as chaplain to Sir Francis Steuart, who was in attendance on Gondomar. His ‘facete and pleasant way’ won Gondomar’s favour.

Hollyday was ordained as a deacon in 1619 by Bishop Howson at {{Watlington, Oxfordshire|Watlington]], and 1621 a priest at St Giles, Oxford. . Taking orders, he was esteemed a ‘most eloquent and quaint preacher,’. He became vicar at both Ashleworth, Gloucester, and Brize Norton, Oxford in 1623. Then ordained as archdeacon in Oxford in 1625. Around this time he became chaplain to King Charles I.

During the Commonwealth he submitted to ‘the examination of the triers or rather Spanish inquisitors’, and was inducted into the rectory of Hilton, Berkshire. He gave up this living at the Restoration and returned to Iffley, near Oxford, where he lived on his archdeaconry. Wood, who knew him well, says that ‘had he not acted the vain man’ he might have had a bishopric, or at least a rich deanery.

Works
Holiday published:
 * Aulus Persius Flaccus His Satyres a verse translation of Persius’s ‘Satires;’ (1616) 8vo.
 * It was republished in 1617, 1635, and 1673. The posthumous edition of 1673, fol., was accompanied by a new translation of Juvenal, line for line, and contains voluminous notes.


 * Τεχνογαμία, or the Marriages of the Arts. A Comedie London, 1618, 4to (2nd edit. 1630).
 * Technogamia was his only play and was acted in Christ Church Hall on 13 Feb. 1617-18. It was afterwards acted at Woodstock, 26 Aug. 1621, before James I, who found the performance tedious. Whether the actors had taken too much wine before they began, or whether the subject of the play was distasteful, his majesty made several attempts to leave after sitting out the first two acts, but finally was induced to stay till the end. Some epigrams on the Woodstock performance were circulated by Cambridge wits, and Holiday’s Oxford friends (among them Henry King, afterwards bishop of Chichester) retorted.


 * All Horace his Lyrics or His Four Books of Odes and his Book of Epodes Englished, 8vo.
 * A translation of the Odes of Horace. Wood remarks: ‘This translation is so near that of Sir Thomas Hawkins, or that of Hawkins so near this, that whether of the two is the author remains to be discovered.’

and works of Juvenal and Persius, and wrote A Survey of the World, in Verse (1661), plus sermons and miscellaneous works. He was summed up by one commentator as "a good scholar, a shrewd critic, and a fair wit." His translations show strong fidelity to their originals, and have often been considered the best of his works.

He was subject of a derisory poem called ‘Whoop Holiday’, published in 1625 by Peter Heylin