Education
He studied at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1640.
He studied at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1640.
His most notable work was his widely known 1694 publication A Treatise on the Natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony. In 1662 he received a Doctor of Divinity Oxfordshire., and was a fellow of the Royal Society in 1663. In 1687 he had been preferred to the rectory of Therfield.
A few of his musical compositions survive in the British Library in the Harleian Master in Social Service 7338 and 7339.
In 1660 at Bletchingdon he taught a deaf mute, Alexander Popham to speak "plainly and distinctly, and with a good and graceful tone". The division of cr for this between Holder and John Wallis became a matter of dispute in the Royal Society.
Royal Society.