Denzil hollies biography of mahatma

Three hundred and fifty years ago, one of the great men of Dorset championed the Parliamentary cause and was one of its leaders in the Civil Wars during a political career that lasted nearly 60 years.

He was Lord Denzil Holles, second son of a gentleman.

Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of England (1883–1884), and History of the Great Civil War(1893) Holles was re-elected for Dorchester in , and appointed to administer the oaths to Members of the new Parliament, but was raised to the peerage before it met. Login to post a comment. He was made free of the corporation on the same day as the election. Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys.

He lived from to Eighty-one years is a long life in volatile times such as he lived in, one of the climactic periods of Britain’s history.

His oldest brother inherited the family lands and he had to make his own way. But he was still one of the favoured aristocracy, and the family motto was “ Hope favours the bold.” He could hardly lose.

However, life was hard even for the landed classes and medical attention was still in its early stages. His mother Anne, wife of the Earl of Clare bore 10 children and he was one of only three survivors.

He was bound for a life in the political arena, and his presence in the House of Commons was first widely noticed in at the age of Three years earlier he married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Francis Ashley.

They had four sons, of whom only one survived.

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The family was very much bound up with Dorchester and the surrounding county. Most of Holles’ estates were in Dorset. He was made a freeman and burgess of Dorchester. Yet he is somewhat forgotten today.

His time at Westminster did not pass easily.

Denzil hollies biography of mahatma Husband of Jane Shurley Holles — married 12 Mar [location unknown]. He was chairman of the Commons committee, reported two conferences, and carried three messages to the Lords. Research Explore Gallery Schools About. In the next few years he was chiefly employed in diplomacy, but on his return from Breda he was reported to be caballing with the Earls of Northumberland and Leicester, and other peers of Presbyterian sympathies, for the disbandment of the guards and the redress of other grievances.

A man of temper when roused, he was in January one of five MP’s charged with high treason, possibly because of correspondence with the Scots. He was against episcopacy at a time when the Scottish bishops refused to give way to moderate views, and he went along with the Presbyterians.

Involving himself in the military preparations for the Civil Wars, he helped to set up a regiment of foot soldiers which left London with the Earl of Essex&#;’ army in But politics had taught him a lot.

Within a few months of the outbreak of war, he became a supporter of peace with the King, and by the Royalists even saw him as ‘one of themselves.’

In he led the House of Commons but later had to escape to France. Fifteen years later King Charles II was to appoint him as ambassador to that country. It is said that throughout his life he showed concern for matters of honour and justice.

There is a memorial to Lord Holles in St.

Peter’s Church, in the centre of Dorchester.