Family and Education
b. 9 Jan. 1662, 1st s. of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare. educ. travelled abroad 1674. m. 1 Mar. 1690, Lady Margaret Cavendish, da. and coh. of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 1da. suc. fa. as 4th Earl of Clare 16 Jan. 1689; cr. Duke of Newcastle 14 May 1694; KG 30 May 1698.CSP Dom. 1673-5, p. 345.
Offices Held
J.p. custos rot. and ld. lt. Mdx. and Westminster 1689 – 92, 1711 – d., Notts. 1694 – d., Yorks (E. Riding) 1699 – d.; high steward, East Retford 1689 – d., Dorchester 1701 – d.; col. of militia ft. Notts. by 1697 – d.; steward of Sherwood Forest 1699 – d.; gov. Kingston-upon-Hull 1699 – d.; ld. lt. Yorks. (N. Riding) 1705–d.
Gent. of the bedchamber 1689–9 1; commr. for Greenwich hospital 1695 – d.; ld. privy seal 1705 – d.; PC 29 Mar. 1705 – d.; commr. for union with Scotland 1706; c.j. in eyre (north) 1711 – d.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Haughton, Notts.; Warwick House, Holborn, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
HOLLES, John (1662-1711)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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