1. Vyvyan Holland was the second-born son of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, and had a brother, Cyril.
10 Facts About Vyvyan Holland
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Vyvyan Holland relocated with the boys to Switzerland and enrolled them in an English-speaking boarding school in Germany.
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Vyvyan Holland converted to Catholicism and subsequently attended Stonyhurst College in England, a public school managed by Jesuits.
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Vyvyan Holland studied law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from 1905, but tired of his studies and left Cambridge in 1907.
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Vyvyan Holland resumed his study of law at the age of 22, and was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales by the Inner Temple in 1912.
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Vyvyan Holland died on 15 October 1918 at Westminster Hospital, Middlesex, from injuries due to a fire.
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At the start of the First World War in 1914, Vyvyan Holland was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Interpreters Corps.
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Vyvyan Holland later transferred into 114 Battery, XXV Bde Royal Field Artillery.
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Vyvyan Holland was demobilised on 27 July 1919 and was awarded an OBE.
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In 1954, after returning to England, Vyvyan Holland published an autobiography entitled Son of Oscar Wilde.