Background
He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, after his brother Cyril.
He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, after his brother Cyril.
Vyvyan studied law at Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge from 1905, but tired of his studies and left Cambridge in 1907.
She took the boys to Switzerland and then enrolled them in an English-speaking school in Germany. Vyvyan was unhappy there. Holland resumed his study of law at the age of 22, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Inner Temple in 1912.
He then began to write poems and short stories.
At the start of the First World War in 1914 he was first commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Interpreters Corps, but later transferred into 114 Battery, XXV Bde Royal Field Artillery. He was demobilised on 27 July 1919 and was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Holland went on to become an author and translator.
At the beginning of the Second World War he was offered a position as a translator and editor for the British Broadcasting Corporation, a post he held for six years. In 1947 he and Thelma left for Australia and New Zealand, where Mrs Holland had been invited to give lectures on fashionable dress in 19th-century Australia.
The couple lived in Melbourne from 1948 to 1952.
Vyvyan Holland died in London in 1967 aged 80.