HOLMES, Sir John (c.1640-83), of Yarmouth, I.o.W.

Family and Education

b. c. 1640, yr. s. of Henry Holmes of Mallow, co. Cork, and bro. of Sir Robert Holmes. m. lic. 6 Apr. 1668, aged 28, Margaret, da. of Robert Lowther, Draper, of London, 2s. 1da. Kntd. by 30 Apr. 1672.Le Neve’s Knights (Harl. Soc. viii), 3; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 702; CSP Dom. 1671-2, p. 404.

Offices Held

Lt. RN 1664, capt. 1665, r.-adm. 1673 – 78; capt. of ft. [I] 1675; capt. of Hurst Castle, Hants 1675 – d., Walmer Castle, Kent ?1679–d.HMC Ormonde, ii. 204; CSP Dom. 1675–6, p. 448; Jan.-June 1683, p. 300; Cal. Treas. Bks. vii. 706.

Keeper of New Park, New Forest by 1675 – 81; commr. for assessment, Hants 1677 – 79; ‘chief burgess’, Newtown 1677 – d.; Mayor, Yarmouth 1678 – 79; freeman, Lymington 1679; j.p. Hants by 1680–d.Cal. Treas. Bks. iv. 838; F. B. Kingdon, Kingdon Fam. 56; Bath mss, Coventry pprs. 5, f. 77; C. St. Barbe, Recs. of Lymington, 9.

Parlimentarian

HOLMES, Sir John (c.1640-83), of Yarmouth, I.o.W.

Main residence: Yarmouth, I.o.W.

Author

P.W.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

HOLMES, Sir John (c.1640-83)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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