Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles

English politician and army officer · Politicians · Lived 1598 to 1680 · aged 81

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John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare; "a bitter and disappointed father" [2]

Charles attempts to arrest the Five Members, January 1642; a Victorian era re-imagining

Oliver Cromwell c. 1649; hostility towards Cromwell became a key component of Holles' political philosophy

Pride's Purge, December 1648; MPs considered hostile to the army are barred from entry, including Holles

1699 portrait of Holles

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Colonel Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles was an English politician and army officer who was one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War. When fighting began in August, Holles raised a Parliamentarian regiment which fought at Edgehill before it was nearly destroyed at Brentford in November 1642. This marked the end of Holles' military career and he became leader of the Parliamentarian 'Peace Party', those who favoured a negotiated settlement with the king. A social conservative from a wealthy family, he came to see political radicals like the Levellers and religious Independents like Oliver Cromwell as more dangerous than the Royalists.