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Wearing roman costume, effigy of Denzil Baron Holles, Baron Ifield 1599-1679/80
Denzil was MP in the Short and Long Parliaments for Dorchester. When in 1628 the speaker tried to adjourn the House at the command of Charles I, he held him down in his chair 'till we are pleased to rise'; enabling 3 resolutions critical of Charles’s religious and economic policies to be passed. for which he was imprisoned and fined (paid 1630) a security pledging good behaviour He escaped and lived in banishment for 7 years.
He was one of the 5 MPs whose attempted unconstitutional arrest by King Charles I in the House of Commons of England in 1642 sparked the Civil War.
He raised a regiment of foot which fought at Edgehill. Thereafter he led the peace party and was one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to propose a peace treaty with the King at Oxford in 1644. When the Army marched on London in 1647 he fled to Normandy but returned the next year when he was one of the Commissioners sent to negotiate the Treaty of Newport with the King, who was now prisoner on the Isle of Wight.. Following the restoration he was (surprisingly ?) made a Privy Councillor and a baron, however, he opposed much of Charles II's policy in parliament.
He was the son of John Holles of Houghton by Anne daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford (son of Anne Rawson flic.kr/p/dWLCDq & Michael Stanhope)
He m1 1628 Dorothy 1640 heiress of Sir Francis Ashley and Anne eldest daughter of Bernard Samways 1645 of Toller Fratrum & Winterborne St Martin (Anne's sister Elizabeth m Francis son of Thomas Fulford of Dunsford flic.kr/p/oFZ4g1 )
Children
1. Francis 2nd lord 1627–1690 m1 Lucy 1667 daughter of of Sir Robert Carr 1667 of Sleaford Robert Carr 1667 & Mary 1667 daughter of Richard Gargrave & Katherine Danvers m2 Anne 1682 daughter of Sir Francis Pile flic.kr/p/5TE2Qb of Compton Beauchamp & 2nd wife Jane daughter of Nathaniel Still 1626 & Mary Whitmore flic.kr/p/oPbetd , and grand daughter of John Still, Bishop of Bath & Wells www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/046C5X by 1st wife Anne Alabaster 1593 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/52778b daughter of Thomas Alabaster 1597 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/w76vkL
He m2 1642 Jane 1666 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8a44KsE4iS co-heiress of Sir John Shurley of Isfield 1631 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Ax2u197C5a by Jane Shirley daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston & Anne flic.kr/p/297aNq daughter of Thomas Kempe by Amy Moyle ; His wife Jane Shurley was the widow of Sir Walter Covert of Slougham flic.kr/p/hQLwKN & John Freske / Freke of Cerne Abbas (mother of Thomas Freke 1701)
He m3 1666 Esther 1683 co-heiress of Gideon Le Lou of Columbiers Normandy, widow of James Richer of Cambernon
The peerage became extinct on the death of his grandson Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles c1692, the estates devolving on his great nephew John Holles 1711, 4th Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle (grandson of Elizabeth Harries Pierrepont flic.kr/p/4oajv6 ) who erected the monument in 1699
The wingless putti standing in front were originally on flanking pedestals which were destroyed when the monument was moved to its present position along with the external railing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzil_Holles,_1st_Baron_Holles
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member...
- Church of St Peter, Dorchester, Dorset
Picture with thanks - copyright Mike Searle CCL