Family

He was born in Haughton, Nottinghamshire

Haughton, Nottinghamshire

Haughton is a hamlet in the English county of Nottinghamshire.Haughton lies on the south bank of the River Maun about one mile south west from Bothamsall...

, the eldest son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare

John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare

John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare was an English nobleman.He was the son of Denzel Holles of Irby upon Humber and Eleanor Sheffield...

 and Anne Stanhope, and the brother of Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles

Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles

Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.-Early life:...

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He married Elizabeth Vere, daughter of Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury, on 4 September 1626. They had eight children:

• John Holles, died young
• Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare
  Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare
  Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare was an English nobleman, styled Lord Haughton from 1637 until his accession in 1666....
  
   (1633–1689)
• Lady Anne Holles (d. October 1707), married Edward Clinton, Lord Clinton
• Lady Elizabeth Holles, married Wentworth FitzGerald, 17th Earl of Kildare
  Wentworth FitzGerald, 17th Earl of Kildare
  Wentworth FitzGerald, 17th Earl of Kildare PC , styled Lord Offaly until 1660, was an Irish peer.-Background:...
  
  
• Lady Arabella Holles, married Sir Edward Rossiter of Somerley
• Lady Susan Holles (c.1641 – bef May 1710), married c.July 1663 Sir John Lort, 2nd Baronet
• Lady Diana Holles, married Harry Bridges of Keynsham
• Lady Penelope Holles (d. 1684), married on 13 April 1667 Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet
  Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet
  Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1662.Langham was the son of Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Bunce....
  
  
• Lady Eleanor Holles

He is buried in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham

St. Mary's Church, Nottingham

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the oldest religious foundation in the City of Nottingham, England, the largest church after the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the largest mediæval building in Nottingham....

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Life

Styled Lord Haughton from 1624, he was member of parliament for East Retford

East Retford (UK Parliament constituency)

East Retford was a parliamentary constituency in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons for the first time in 1316, and continuously from 1571 until 1885, when the constituency was abolished...

 in three parliaments (1623–1626) before succeeding to the peerage in 1637. He took some part in the Civil War

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...

, but "he was very often of both parties, and never advantaged either."

He was made Recorder of Nottingham

Recorder of Nottingham

The Recorder of Nottingham is the highest appointed legal officer of the Crown within the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County areas.The current appointed Recorder of Nottingham is His Honour Judge Michael Stokes QC...

in 1642.