Henry Holt Henley (died 1748) of Leigh, Somerset, and Colway, Lyme Regis, Dorset, was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the

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between 1722 and 1748. Henley was the only son of

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, MP of Leigh and Colway and his wife Catherine Holt, daughter of Richard Holt, MP of Nursted, Hampshire. He was admitted at

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in 1716, and was called to the bar in 1722. He married Sarah Cornish daughter of

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, MP of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. Henley was elected as a Whig

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for

Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Heri ...

at the 1722 general election. He was Mayor of Lyme Regis for 1724 to 1725. He was defeated at the 1727 general election but was seated on petition on 28 February 1728 after

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, as mayor, had illegally returned himself. In 1728 he was appointed to a lucrative sinecure post as Clerk of the Pipe, which had been held by his brother-in-law, Anthony Cornish. He was Mayor of Lyme Regis again for 1731 to 1732. At the 1734 general election, he was re-elected MP for Lyme Regis. He was Mayor of Lyme Regis for a third term for the year 1738 to 1739. At the 1741 general election, he was returned to Parliament unopposed. He was Mayor of Lyme Regis for the year 1746 to 1747. He was re-elected MP at the 1747 general election. During his time in Parliament, he voted for the Administration in all recorded divisions. He was sometime Recorder of Lyme Regis. Henley's first wife died on 25 April 1731 and he succeeded his father in 1733. He married as his second wife, Catherine Hare, daughter of Rev. Hugh Charles Hare of Docking, Norfolk on 8 May 1739. He died on 8 May 1748. He had a son and three daughters by his first wife.

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