Denzil Holles (other)
Denzil Holles may refer to: * Denzil Holles (MP) (c. 1538–1590) MP for East Retford * Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (1599–1680), English statesman and writer * Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles (1675 – c. 1692) was an English statesman, son of Francis Holles, 2nd Baron Holles, and grandson of Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of En ...

Denzil Holles (MP)
Denzil Holles (ca. 1538 – 12 April 1590) JP of Irby upon Humber, was a member of parliament for East Retford. Denzil Holles, the son of William Holles (MP), was given the manor of Irby upon Humber by his father, on the occasion of his marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, in the mid-16th century. Holles was not an absentee landlord, spending much of his time in Irby. He made numerous improvements to the estate and was in the process of constructing a new manor house when he died in 1590. Writing in the 1600s, when the estate was owned by Denzil's son John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare, cousin Gervase Holles described it as: He married Eleanor Sheffield, daughter of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield. The baptism of at least five of his children are recorded in the parish registers. They include: *William Holles (1562–1637) *John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (1564–1637) *Frances Holles (b. 1566) married Francis Cooke of Trusley *Jane Holles ...
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Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC (31 October 1598 – 17 February 1680) was an English statesman, best remembered as one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War. When fighting began in August, Holles raised a Parliamentarian regiment which fought at Edgehill before it was nearly destroyed at Brentford in November 1642. This marked the end of Holles' military career and he became leader of the Parliamentarian 'Peace Party', those who favoured a negotiated settlement with the king. A social conservative from a wealthy family, he came to see political radicals like the Levellers and religious Independents like Oliver Cromwell as more dangerous than the Royalists. Following victory in the First English Civil War, he led those who opposed Cromwell and his supporters, and was one of the Eleven Members suspended in June 1647. Recalled prior to the Second English Civil War in June 1648, he was excluded again by P ...
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