Director-General of MI5 from 1956 to 1965. His uncle Christopher Hollis was a writer and Conservative politician, and he shared a grandfather, the Anglican later bishop-suffragan of Taunton, the Right Revd George Arthur Hollis (1868–1944), with first cousin Crispian Hollis who is the Bishop of Portsmouth for the Catholic Church. Hollis died on 26 February 2013 in Wells, Somerset, England. Selected works Ovid: Metamorphoses Book VIII, edited with introduction and commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970). "Some Allusions to Earlier Hellenistic Poetry in Nonnus", Classical Quarterly, Vol. 26 (1976), 142–150. Ovid: Ars Amatoria Book I, edited with introduction and commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977). Callimachus: Hecale, edited with introduction and commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990; 2nd ed., rev., 2009). "Attica in Hellenistic Poetry", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 93 (1992), 1–15. "The Nuptial Rite in Catullus 66 and Callimachus' Poetry for Berenice", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 91 (1992), 21–28. "Hellenistic Colouring in Virgil's Aeneid", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 94 (1992), 269–285. "[Oppian], Cyn. 2,100–158 and the Mythical Past of Apamea-on-the-Orontes", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 102 (1994), 153–166. "Rights of Way in Ovid (Heroides 20.146) and Plautus (Curculio 36)", Classical Quarterly, Vol. 44 (1994), 545–549. "Statius' Young Parthian King (Thebaid 8.286–93)", Greece & Rome, Vol. 41 (1994), 205–212. (with J.R. Rea and R.C. Senior) "A Tax Receipt from Hellenistic Bactria", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 104 (1994), 261–280. "Heroic Honours for Philetas?", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 110 (1996), 56–62. "Laodice Mother of Eucratides of Bactria", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 110 (1996), 161–164. "Octavian in the Fourth Georgic", Classical Quarterly, Vol. 46 (1996), 305–308. "Traces of Ancient Commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses", Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Vol. 9 (1996), 159–74. "Virgil's Friend Varius Rufus", Proceedings of the Virgil Society, Vol 22 (1996), 19–33. "A New Fragment on Niobe and the Text of Propertius 2.20.8", Classical Quarterly, Vol. 47 (1997), 578–582. "Some neglected verse citations in Hesychius", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Vol. 123 (1998), 61–71. "Two Adynata in Horace, Epode 16", Classical Quarterly, Vol. 48 (1998), 311–313. "A Tragic Fragment in Cicero, Pro Caelio 67?", Classical Quarterly, Vol. 48 (1998), 561–564. "William Spenser Barrett, 1914–2001", Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 124 (2004), 25–36. "The Hellenistic Epyllion and Its Descendants", in S.F. Johnson (ed.), Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 141–157. Fragments of Roman