HOLMES, Sir Robert (c.1622-92), of Whitehall and Carisbrooke Castle, I.o.W.

Family and Education

b. c. 1622, 3rd s. of Henry Holmes of Mallow, co. Cork, and bro. of Sir John Holmes. unm. 1 da. Kntd. 27 Mar. 1666.Worsley, Hist. I.o.W. 267; Torrington Mems. (Cam. Soc. n.s. xlvi), 180.

Offices Held

Cornet (royalist) by 1643; capt. RN July 1660, r.-adm. 1666 – 72; capt. of Sandown Castle, I.o.W. Oct. 1660–7, indep. co. I.o.W. 1669 – 87, Princess Anne’s (later 8) Ft. 1687 – 89; gov. I.o.W. 1668–d.R. Atkyns, Vindication (1669), 28; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 327; 1668–9, p. 118; Cal. Treas. Bks. ii. 167; Bulstrode Pprs. 61.

Page to Prince Rupert 1647.E. Warburton, Mems. Prince Rupert, iii. 241.

Freeman, Portsmouth 1661, 1666, Winchester 1669; j.p. Hants 1669 – d.; v.-adm. Hants and I.o.W. 1669-May, 1692; keeper of Boldrewood walk, New Forest by 1672–?d.; ‘chief burgess’, Newtown 1677 – d., mayor 1680 – 84; commr. for assessment, Hants 1690.R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 356, 359; Winchester corp. assembly bk. 6, f. 53; Cal. Treas. Bks. iv. 838; Hants Field Club Pprs. ii. 100.

Parlimentarian

HOLMES, Sir Robert (c.1622-92), of Whitehall and Carisbrooke Castle, I.o.W.

Main residences: Whitehall; Carisbrooke Castle, I.o.W.

Author

P.W.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

HOLMES, Sir Robert (c.1622-92)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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