Denzil Holles (ca. 1538 – 12 April 1590) JP of

Irby upon Humber Irby upon Humber or Irby-on-Humber is a small village and (as just Irby) a civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated on the A46 road, south-west from Laceby. Village population at the 2001 census was 124, in ...

, was a member of parliament for East Retford. Denzil Holles, the son of

William Holles (MP) Sir William Holles (1509/10 – 18 January 1591) JP of Haughton, Nottinghamshire was a member of parliament for Nottinghamshire and also High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests. He was born the second son of William H ...

, was given the manor of

by his father, on the occasion of his marriage to Eleanor, daughter of

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (22 November 1521 – 19 July 1549) was an English nobleman, the son of Sir Robert Sheffield (died 15 November 1531, son of Robert Sheffield and Helen Delves) and his second wife Jane Stanle ...

, 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 John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (May 1564 – 4 October 1637) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Denzil Holles of Irby upon Humber and Eleanor Sheffield (daughter of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield of Butterwick). His great-grandfa ...

, cousin

Gervase Holles Gervase Holles (9 March 1607 – 10 February 1675) was an English lawyer, antiquarian and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War. Holles was the son of Frescheville ...

described it as: He married Eleanor Sheffield, daughter of

. The baptism of at least five of his children are recorded in the parish registers. They include: *William Holles (1562–1637) *

(1564–1637) *Frances Holles (b. 1566) married Francis Cooke of Trusley *Jane Holles (b. 1568) married Thomas Sanderson *Anne Holles *Thomas Holles married Gertrude He served as a captain under

Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, KG (c. 1530 – 21 February 1590) was an English nobleman and general, and an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Their father was John Dudley, Duke ...

putting down the

Northern Rebellion The Rising of the North of 1569, also called the Revolt of the Northern Earls or Northern Rebellion, was an unsuccessful attempt by Catholicism, Catholic nobles from Northern England to depose Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with M ...

in 1569. He was appointed member of parliament for East Retford twice, in 1584 and again in 1586. He died in April 1590 was buried in the chancel of the church at

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